As you may have already figured out, I'm a huge fan of web comics. From Hark! A Vagrant to xkcd, they're just fun, short bursts of intelligent humor (which can then pull you deeper into the site until you realize you've just wasted half the day).

So between that and my beloved Kindle, I'm still always taken aback when people get all hostile about reading from a screen. I mean, you do it all day at work. You follow link after link that friends send you via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter. But somehow when you get home, it's a taboo medium.

So leave it to another web comic to eloquently communicate my pain: Downloading Optimism.*

The author, Lucy Knisley, is no stranger to the printed word -- she has her own memoir, the drawing journal "French Milk," and has even worked at a magazine, according to her Web site.

Just further proof that a loving both books and computers is possible. Which is good for us, since Read Street wouldn't exist otherwise.

*And as an aside, happy birthday to Margaret Atwood! Let's see if you write so well when you're 70!

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