My first fandom was a flavor of Star Trek, so there were indeed zines (though not many) and I went to MW*C to meet up with some fellow fans, and I bought some zines (at MW*C but mostly online) and was kind of suprised and disappointed a few fandoms later when no one did zines at all.
Though that was before I'd really gotten to grips with the essential truth of my own fannish involvement -- that I obsess for a few years and then move on and don't really involve myself with the prior fandoms anymore. (I mean, I'll watch the new canon as it comes along, but the real love is gone and I'm just not invested in it anymore.) And digital media I can save for years, no problem, but zines take up space -- and I'm not likely to ever read them again, so. (Still got a few zines over at my grandmother's house. When I have to clear all of my own stuff out of there, I think I'll hang on to the one or two I got contributor's copies of and trash the rest.)
A week or three back someone was polling on fannish reading habits and I found myself thinking out loud regarding her question about fannish vs. non-fannish reading and print vs. online reading: I like reading books and can't make myself finish reading e-books (no Kindle for me), I like reading fanfic (even unto novel-length) and happily reread even long favorites but never print them out and don't really care to have zines taking up shelf space. There's some weird mental thing going on there that expects pro fic to be printed and bound but fanfic to be digital.
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Though that was before I'd really gotten to grips with the essential truth of my own fannish involvement -- that I obsess for a few years and then move on and don't really involve myself with the prior fandoms anymore. (I mean, I'll watch the new canon as it comes along, but the real love is gone and I'm just not invested in it anymore.) And digital media I can save for years, no problem, but zines take up space -- and I'm not likely to ever read them again, so. (Still got a few zines over at my grandmother's house. When I have to clear all of my own stuff out of there, I think I'll hang on to the one or two I got contributor's copies of and trash the rest.)
A week or three back someone was polling on fannish reading habits and I found myself thinking out loud regarding her question about fannish vs. non-fannish reading and print vs. online reading: I like reading books and can't make myself finish reading e-books (no Kindle for me), I like reading fanfic (even unto novel-length) and happily reread even long favorites but never print them out and don't really care to have zines taking up shelf space. There's some weird mental thing going on there that expects pro fic to be printed and bound but fanfic to be digital.