Anyway, if you don’t have a local bookstore near you, I highly recommend checking out http://www.brilliant-books.net
They’re based in Traverse City, Michigan and they’re super cool. Like, the order confirmation email isn’t an automatic form, it’s a literal person typing an email saying “Hey thanks for the order”. Once when I ordered a book through them, they sent an email saying “Hey, we’re gonna wait about two weeks to send your order because the author is coming to our store and we’re gonna get your book signed for you. If you don’t want to wait, let us know and we’ll send it out right away.”
Anyway, this time I ordered an odd assortment, and there was going to be a weird delay in shipment with the shipping I selected, so they just gave me a free shipping upgrade just because. ALSO they have a spot in checkout where you can tip the person packing your order if you want to.
So yeah, they have been really really dependent on online orders during covid, so here’s a plug. They’re really cool.