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June 2026 2 notes

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A zinette, if you will

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The note describes Dirty Little Zine, a free browser-based tool for creating printable 8-page folded zines from a single sheet of paper. The author is working on a 40-page zine about Productive Friction and considers using this tool to produce a smaller companion "zinette." The idea evokes the whimsical extra "little tissue" given by a Big Issue seller.

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Putting together a zine is harder than I thought...

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Putting together a zine is harder than expected because everything must be correct before printing, unlike web publishing where mistakes can be fixed after the fact. The author notes their usual publishing flow includes a fixable "oh shit" moment, but printed matter offers no such safety net.

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