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It didn't quite work out that way.

First of all, when I got there I found two of the regular employees outside on a cigarette break.

After chatting for awhile I found out that the cafe had just closed for the summer.

This is new.

It never used to close during the summer.

No coffee?

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So I chucked the idea of doing anything there that didn't involve socializing.

When I reflect back on the my time at the bookstore I realize that I was very lucky.

As a child I had always said that I wanted to work at a bookstore.

My family thought this was amusing because they were pretty sure if I did I'd end up spending my entire paycheck there.

It didn't happen because I was too poor that year and too busy to do any real reading.

But I left with something a lot better than books.

I left with great memories and real friends.

Books have really been good to me, in so many ways.

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For starters, the comics don't look as good on my computer screen as they did in print-they aren't presented at a very high resolution.

The screen just isn't as good a medium for distribution as paper is.

Perhaps the new iPhone will fix this, with its 200-dots-per-inch screen, but I'm not holding my breath.

A bigger disappointment is that getting the comics on a Web page has changed reading comics from a communal activity done with my wife and family around the breakfast table to a solitary activity that I do in front of the computer screen.

Some days I will actually walk away from breakfast to "check my mail"-and read the comics.

Yet another problem is selection: there's too much, and it's not edited.

Back when I was reading the comics page, I got a selection of the comics I liked and some others I didn't care about.

But every now and then one of the ones that I didn't care about would catch my eye, and sooner or later I would get hooked.

Today, I get the comics that I care about by e-mail, and I ignore the rest.

If I ever decide to go looking for something new, I'm quickly overwhelmed by the selection.

Back when I was a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, we used to theorize about the "newspaper of the future" and the problems that it might have.

One of the ideas floated for the comics was that people would have high-resolution color printers in their homes, and the daily comics would be printed every...