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The Traveling Zine Box

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Group for the traveling zine box, in which zinesters pass a box of zines along, taking what they want from it and replacing the taken zines with the same number from their collection. Then off to the next person!

Members: 64
Latest Activity: Mar 26

I frequently participate (and am mildy obsessed with) www.bookcrossing.com. It's a site where you can register and track where your books go, make journal entries about what you thought of the books, trade books, etc. One of the things you can do on the site is start or participate in a "bookbox." The idea of a bookbox is that you send out a box of books to the first in a list of participants. They look through it, take out a few books, go through their old books and put the same number back that they took from the box.

Unfortunately, you can't trade zines on bookcrossing because they aren't technically books and don't hold up well when mailed again and again or released into the wild. However, I love bookboxes so much that I'd really like to do something similar with zines.

I would put a certain number of zines in a box or big envelope and then gather a list of people who want to participate. I would send it off to the first person, they would take some zines, and then add the same number of zines from their collection. Then they would send a message to the next person in line to get their mailing address and send it off to them and so on.

At the end, the last person sends the box/envelope back to me.

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traveling zine box

Started by tim scannell Jan 24, 2009.

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Comment by Briana on May 16, 2009 at 8:42pm: Yay, I can't wait for this to start! And I didn't say this in my original comment but I'd prefer to ship within the US if possible.

Comment by Mab on May 12, 2009 at 8:13pm: Sorry for the lack of update! Things have been busy and I had to push this to the back burner. This is definitely still happening! I'm going to go through the rest of my old zines ASAP and then I'll start putting the names together for the mailing order and figure out all the specifics. Will post when it's all ready to go. Thanks so much for your interest!

Comment by sacraWOMENto zine on May 11, 2009 at 3:32pm: We would love to be apart of this, what do we need to do?

Comment by Briana on May 5, 2009 at 9:27pm: I'd be interested as well if this is still happening.

Comment by Coco Negro on April 23, 2009 at 1:32pm: i'm down for this, is it still happening?

Comment by Laura on March 28, 2009 at 5:10pm: I'm in UK- can ship anywhere too

Comment by Misti Ko on March 2, 2009 at 11:38am: likely more people wil sign up as things go along. I tend not to sign up for stuff like this if it looks like my turn is too far away. I just can't stand the suspense.
M

Comment by Mab on March 2, 2009 at 4:06am: Sorry guys, I have been seriously busy with finals at school, starting new classes, dealing with my mental health, and pulling doubles in the clinic at school. Plans for this are still on; I just want to get more people involved! Tell your zinester friends!

Comment by Jeannine on February 24, 2009 at 4:00pm: How's your debut coming along? Did you get mine? I sent a full PDF (about 12 pages) but I was having problems with my email that day.

KIT

Comment by Denise on February 23, 2009 at 10:16pm: when do you guys think it will start? how many people should there be? :P anticipationis killing me. haha