Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for October 31, 2012

I’m here because my paper doesn’t carry this strip.

I love walking around the classic non-chain mom &l pop bookstores where you can ask questions and people know the answers. I was once at a chain store similar to Buns and Noodles and told someone I was looking for a certain book by Maya Angelou. The apathetic clerk asked me "oh isn’t HE one of the chefs on the Foot Network?

I was dumbfounded!

Our last non-chain book store went away a couple of years ago; they couldn’t compete with the big boxes and innerwebs. They didn’t often have what I wanted, but they could order to without any trouble at all. And they carried Charles de Lint’s books!

I think a lot of us are here because there are more than a hundred comic strips here, whereas the local paper carries, I think, 12. Also, you have to admit, it’s kind of fun to comment on them.

As with radio, which they felt sure TV would kill, there will always be at least a niche for paper books. They do have a certain je ne sais quoi.

I have to admit that I rarely go into a bookstore. I go to the library or check the internet when I’m buying to save money.

I prefer a bookstore that has a resident cat.

And would eliminate a career choice for you as well

Agreed, with all these free ipads running around it’s really hard to figure out why I don’t have one.

“What? If you buy on the internet, you download it and start reading immediately.

Ah yes. I didn’t think of the Kindle alternative.

I love bookstores.

I love real books. The smell of the paper, the glue, the ink….but I have so many, that I’ve run out of shelf space. The walls are groaning as it is..The Kindle is an ideal answer and I won’t catch any fungal infections from it.