{"id":5677,"date":"2012-03-13T13:35:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=5677"},"modified":"2012-06-17T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T10:52:05","slug":"dog-ear-the-bookmark-zine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/dog-ear-the-bookmark-zine\/","title":{"rendered":"DOG EAR: The Bookmark Zine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120313-122157.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120313-122157.jpg\" alt=\"20120313-122157.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very clever idea, this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogear.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">DOG EAR<\/a> is a magazine in the form of a concertina bookmark, with ten slim pages of writing and illustration selected from online contributions. It&#8217;s available for free from independent bookshops and libraries (cunningly hidden between the pages of books to perk up surprised readers, I like to imagine).<\/p>\n<p>I love the way the content must fit the unusual dimensions of the magazine. Rather than being a restriction, it seems to inspire imaginative uses of space, containing drawings akin to comic book panels, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_fiction\" target=\"_blank\">flash fiction<\/a>. There&#8217;s also snippets of funny overheard comments and quote-worthy status updates, the latter making messages borne on the most transitory of mediums appear more like transcribed responses from interviewed authors, or the one-sentence reviews that adorn film and theatre posters, simply by harnessing the fleeting digital in print.<\/p>\n<p>DOG EAR reminds me of &#8220;reverse shoplifting&#8221;, where people plant copies of their books in shops or libraries &#8211; subversive D.I.Y distribution. I fancy the idea of self-publishing writers creating their own collections with <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\" target=\"_blank\">bookleteer<\/a>, then quietly slipping them into the bookshelves of esteemed literary establishments. Using any means to spread the <em>word.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very clever idea, this. DOG EAR is a magazine in the form of a concertina bookmark, with ten slim pages of writing and illustration selected from online contributions. It&#8217;s available for free from independent bookshops and libraries (cunningly hidden between the pages of books to perk up surprised readers, I like to imagine). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,41],"tags":[5,25,100,337,65,24],"class_list":["post-5677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas-suggestions","category-inspiration","tag-bookleteer","tag-drawing","tag-ideas","tag-inspiration","tag-writing","tag-zines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5677"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5937,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5677\/revisions\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}