Save yourself the trouble and order off of amazon or similar site. Same price delivered to your door. It's virtually the only way I order books anymore.
Now I go to bookstores for coffee.
I go to coffee stores for music and pastry.
I don't go to music stores and bakeries no longer exist in middle america.
:>)
Here's an addition to your methods: after buying your books from Amazon.com, make sure you send a message to Borders, Barnes and Noble and so forth, even telephone your local store to speak with the owner/manager, and tell them what you did and why you did it. Let them know you voted with your consumer dollars that you would not be treated like that by some left-wing freaks who take it upon themselves to be media censors. I laugh when I read that these misfits are doing these types of things to "save what's left of our country". Well, at least they have one thing right - they are saving what's "left", indeed. But, their hypocrisy is, shall we say, "astounding".
"....and bakeries no longer exist in middle america."
Yes, they do! You're just not looking hard enough....from a die-hard sweet lover..