#Matchbook mag how to#

As soon as I started reading the stories, I immediately wanted to pass the matchbooks to different friends: it’s rare to find a magazine that you want to give away not because you don’t like it, rather because it’s so special that you actively want to share it. Buy The Match Book of Football Records: From the Makers of Britains Bestselling Football Magazine 1 by Match (ISBN: 9780752226545) from Amazons Book Store. The stories are short, crisp and atmospheric, and they make good use of pacing (an important line break will often be followed by the turn of a page, making the words all the more emphatic). And I was thrilled to find a product from my client, Sturbridge Yankee Workshop Westie Bookends pg. They call it tongue-in-cheek, but honestly, it's almost spot-on.

#Matchbook mag how to#

I shared their lovely feature of Sheridan French here and simply couldn't resist drawing your attention to the lovely piece above - How to Be a Southern Belle. The stories are supposed to get lost and exchange hands – the journal’s tagline states ‘read and share with a friend’ – and I like that they might fall away from their original packaging with no concrete way to find their origin. (Images: Matchbook Mag March 2013) I can't get enough of the March issue of Matchbook. At first, I first found this frustrating but it actually adds to the project’s mystery and charm. Curbed dubbed this new category 'Design-Pubs-Powered-by-PDF-Flipbook-Technology.

Inside the tiny pages, there’s no clue as to who authored which matchbook. When Matchbook Magazine launched in 2011, it was one of a new crop of digital shelter magazines like Lonny and Rue. One is by Ali Smith, another by graphic novelist Etgar Keret, a third by Marti Leimbach and the fourth by Irish writer Frances Gapper.

Issue four is the most charmingly illustrated and contains four ‘matchbooks’ in total. Instead of printing their short stories in magazine format, the publisher hand staples them into tiny matchbox-shaped, cardboard envelopes ( below): a perfect format for whipping out at any moment’s notice and for weightless carrying. Matchbook Stories from Cyprus – the smallest literary journal in the world – have found a solution. Amazon has decided to retire a very useful, if somewhat underused feature by book buyers with news that Kindle Matchbook will cease to be on Oct. Have you ever loved a story so much that you wished you could put it in your pocket and carry it around with you forever? I’ve had this problem countless times – thick-paged literary journals are notoriously objects that you don’t want to carry in your bag.