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Print culture- This argument for maintaining the print and material nature of zines as opposed to creating digital surrogates is perhaps the weakest of these 4 factors, but it is still a point to consider. Zines are created by hand,[Only registered and activated users can see links. ], crafted with paper, scissors, tape, glue, staples. They were meant to be handed from person to person,[Only registered and activated users can see links. ], physically shared. The experience of handling zines in person,[Only registered and activated users can see links. ], turning each page to reveal intimate secrets, funny comics, and poetry, can’t be duplicated on-line. You would get the content,[Only registered and activated users can see links. ], but miss out on the physical experience, an aspect that is even more important as the medium of communication has shifted to the electronic.I could write a few more reasons why we are not stitch digitizing our zine collection, just as I their deepest secrets and angsty rants would be archived in a research library. One could argue that other digital projects that post diaries and letters of historical significance also violate this right to privacy, but the now-adult women who created these zines are likely to be living, active Internet users whose personal and professional lives could be negatively (or positively) affected by someone else finding their zine online. For example, we have been contacted to remove a last name from our database that was associated with a zine title that the author felt damaged her reputation in her current career—at age