To be completely fair, they're more likely to have the book on [insert bizarre Unix-like topic here] than the local Borders or Barnes and Snowballs. Otherwise, if I were looking for a reference on, say, the occult (I do quite a bit of work there, too), I'd head for a normal bookstore.

Wow. A Fry's within walking distance of somewhere people live in Houston. You're obviously not talking about the same store I am. Of course, walking outside in Houston is just begging to die from heat stroke (yet, during the school year, I do it all the time).