How to get into our local indie book store, Diesel? For the past month, the answer has differed from day to day and, at times, hour to hour.

Construction at the Cross Creek shopping center, which is renovating the place to look East-coast chic, has the front entrances of a handful of stores more barricaded than a Sarah Palin fundraiser.

And yet, on a recent weekday, Diesel was humming, filled with browsers and buyers, people who still read books, not in pixels but in print.