This may be seen as a bit of a tangent, but I couldn't resist sharing this little bit of history.

As a student job I work for the UWDC in Madison, WI. We are digitizing the papers and field journals of Aldo Leopold, an influential ecologist and environmentalist. The other day I was going through one of his old notebooks -- for digitization purposes. The quality of the paper is just beautiful, even after all this time. There is a certain beauty to a carefully handwritten notebook.

This is a bit different from a zine-only bookstore but I thought others may be interested in the Midwest Zine Collective and the yearly Madison Zine Fest held right here in Madison, Wisconsin. The fest usually falls right at the start of the Wisconsin Book Festival each year (though it wasn't held this year).