You are not going to buy one book. Let us be honest about that before we start.
These ten places in Texas are built to defeat your self control, and they have had a lot of practice. One of them takes up the old opera house in Denton, and the shelves are arranged like a maze with sections you find by accident.
Another one in Houston opens four days a week and looks like books were poured into the building from above. There is a shop in El Paso that puts free water out on the curb for anyone passing by…