The zine enthusiasts in this thread might enjoy this little tool I made to print out and zine-fold Project Gutenberg books: https://github.com/sieste/pocketbook
Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine
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#12Was doing a similar thing for plain HTML zines: https://github.com/zserge/zine - write each page as html, render as page previews in browser and as a folded zine when printed
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#13I love this, it's like a grown-up PrintShop.
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#14I keep hearing about zines and how they're cool and awesome, but I've never really seen one, so I can't really get a sense in my head for what they are. Does anyone have like an online gallery of zines or something? Are they literally just a small, independently made magazine?
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#15I keep hearing about zines and how they're cool and awesome, but I've never really seen one, so I can't really get a sense in my head for what they are. Does anyone have like an online gallery of zines or something? Are they literally just a small, independently made magazine?
Yes, it's literally that. Some are made with just one sheet of paper smartly folded into 8 pages.
you can find them in random art stands in small alternative markets. Sometimes music shop, art shops and small independent book publishers.
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#16I keep hearing about zines and how they're cool and awesome, but I've never really seen one, so I can't really get a sense in my head for what they are. Does anyone have like an online gallery of zines or something? Are they literally just a small, independently made magazine?
Since we're on hn, Please start here
https://wizardzines.com/
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#17I love that it has the "you wouldn't download a car" font
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#18I didn't know about zines before and they seem interesting but aren't we wasting half of the paper surface (from what I understood looking at some images) A printer spread achieves a similar result without wasting one side of the sheet. (A bit more folding and cutting involved)
* Or does one put additional content pages inside which are supposed to be read by unfolding the zine and folding it the other way?
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#19I'm sure I saw someone post the same link a day or so ago.
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#20The general name for this category of software is imposition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition
I use the psbook command-line utility for this kind of thing.