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I used to love browsing the bookstore - an experience that wasn't replaced by on-line shopping. Yet I would buy most of my fiction books from Amazon primarily so I can share them with my mom who lives 500 miles away (her Kindle is linked to my account).
To make up for it, I always made a point of buying 2-3 of reference/non-fiction books (which I prefer in paper) and magazines every visit. More than I will ever get to but I am a firm believer in doing my part to keep the stores/vendors that I frequent in business.
However, Barnes and Noble no longer represents the bookstore experience to me. They used to have many tables/displays that I could easily browse and find a lot of new books. Now it seems that there are only books I've already read as more and more space is allocated to other things. So my desire to keep them in business has lost its steam.
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