Used to read the Big Nate books a lot in elementary school, those were the days. Didn't read the comic strips as much.
Yeah, I've read all 8 of them and reading the third book was kind of my introduction to Big Nate (along with seeing a kid with a copy of a Big Nate comic book) in 3rd grade. Then I read the other 7 and checked out the comic books from the library. After a while I found the site I linked and realized all the comics could be accessed without having to go through the trouble of putting them on hold, waiting, and costing the library money, so I mainly accessed the comics through the site threafter.