I buy all my books at the University bookstore in person, but that's because I'm lucky enough to live in a University city. I'm having a blast, actually, because my classes are Library Studies, English, and Comparitive literature all year, which means I'm reading NOVELS, baby!
That's the best part of being an English major - getting to read good novels, and no daily homework.
Sure, there are the four fifteen-page essays due at the end of the semester, but what with that whole NO HOMEWORK thing, I can start early on those.