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Zine library?

 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
11:48 / 28.01.02
Apologies if this's been floated/dismissed before, but I was just reading over the "your website" thread and read this comment by SFD: quote:i thought about doing a website with my stories on, but i want a 'paper' magazine... maybe i'm just old fashioned, but i can handle the idea/practicalities a lot better....and started wondering about how practical it'd be to set up a Barbelith zine library? I mean, lots of people prefer the feel of paper - like me - but surely it'd be pretty easy to get PDFs of these babies lined up, to share among the barbelithers who aren't in a position to pick up a copy from wherever you distribute it? Certainly, the process for making PDFs is pretty easy - it just requires a bit of time and a copy of whatever's been produced: or even original layout files, if it's been laid up digitally.

Anyone thought about something like this? I think it'd be good to spread the word...
 
 
suds
11:46 / 29.01.02
i don't know what you mean by a zine library. do you mean a huge zine trade-off or a barbelith underground collaborative zine? sorry, i'm still sorta new here and i'm not fully sure of barbe-speak.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
11:56 / 29.01.02
epicentre record shop in san francisco has a zine library; a great idea. read stuff you might never get to otherwise see and listen to old punk/oi records....

suds - if rothkoid is talking pdf's then that means a webby thing.

[ 29-01-2002: Message edited by: shortfatdyke ]
 
 
rizla mission
12:49 / 29.01.02
pdfs? original layout files?

I no understand!

I want prit-stick!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:13 / 29.01.02
Suds: SFD's right. I mean an online thing. I just got to thinking; a couple of barbemeets ago, a Rizla-produced photocopied affair was doing the rounds, and it was pretty good. But I'm guessing a stack of people out there didn't get to see it. I'm just thinking that perhaps translating those zines into PDFs on the web would help spread the word of all those Barbeoids making stuff...
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:16 / 29.01.02
Riz: it's simple. I scan in your zine, say. So it's onscreen, full-size. Then, I distill it into an Adobe Acrobat file - like the ones that lots of government departments turn their forms into, so you can download it. That way, anyone who has a copy of the program (it's free) can download a non-editable (and non-printable, if you wish, I think) version of your zine, from wherever we put it - for argument's sake, say we have a yahoogroup or something called BarbeZines or whatever.

Make sense?
 
 
Saveloy
14:41 / 29.01.02
Sounds cool. These PDFs, how memory hungry are they compared to, say, jpegs?
 
 
rizla mission
15:38 / 29.01.02
Well it sounds a nice idea. Ian Jones has also offered to scan it for me.

But historically speaking, my attempts to mix comics and computers have always ended in tragedy.

I'll bring a copy or two along to the gathering on Saturday if you like.
 
 
suds
11:44 / 31.01.02
i don't think my zine is good enough to be involved right now, but this sounds like a very, very cool idea.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:00 / 31.01.02
Bollocks! Any Barbezine is good enough!

BRING 'EM 'ON!
 
  
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