If you’re buying books for people on your holiday gift list, let me suggest again that you get the books at your local bookstore.

This is super easy now, with BookSense — a marketing effort to promote indie bookstores. All you have to do to find a nice local bookstore is go on the site and plug in your zip :)

My closest one: Dutton’s Brentwood. I wanted to get The Coffee Book for my sis — so I called first to see if they had it. They didn’t, but ordered it for me — and 2 days later gave me a call letting me know it’d arrived :)

So I dropped in and bought the book and browsed a bit — and found some nice recycled Mudlark cards :)

I know Amazon can be convenient, but shopping at an indie bookstore is so much more fun! Plus you keep money in your local economy — it’s an act of kindness to your ‘hood! :)

Here’s a list of some of my favorite indie bookstores in LA :)

Update, 1/27/07: Dutton’s Brentwood might have to close up!

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