There are so many choices, but I, like most women, am conservative. I like to own and keep a book I've read and enjoyed. I seldom borrow from libraries, I do use a Kindle on rare occasions, but it's a big treat to go to a bookshop and buy a book, while anticipating reading it.
So it's a weird feeling of betrayal when I find a fabulous book shop online, only to discover it doesn't exist. There was this wonderfully named shop, 'FoundItAtLast' in the depths of the countryside in the Scottish Borders, and lo, I found only the door of the erstwhile shop which was now a smithy and a store-room. I'd thought it was so brave to run a bookshop in such a remote place, but clearly it didn't work out.
Many websites exist as ghosts of a former glory.
The bookshops that flourish seem to create an engaging cafe society ambience.