Boston’s Papercut Zine Library.

I love zines. I made one myself, for quite a while. I quit doing the zine. Publications like Factsheet Five are becoming increacingly diffficult to find. Blogs have nearly overtaken the zine thing, in so many ways, but not completely.

Blog of a Bookslut has indicated that the zine scene is not as dead as I thought it was. In fact a zine library has recently caught the attention of The Boston Globe. The post, The Boston Globe profiles Boston’s Papercut Zine Library says that “There are zine libraries all over the country.” That’s good news to me.

From the Globe:

Just blocks from some of the world’s most esteemed libraries, a very different reading room has sprung up: Papercut Zine Library, dedicated solely to the quirky, independently published magazines known as ”zines.”

It’s a humble space, a small, wood-paneled room in a fading leftist meeting hall, with a hand-printed sign taped to the peeling front door