I don’t like the internet.
I’m not good at it. The reason Rosario Dawson Loves Me is a ‘zine and not a blog has everything to do with my fear that people are rapidly losing their desire to read simply because doing it off a screen is taxing. I will read somewhere in the vicinity of 250 printed pages before I even have to rub my eyes, but put two pages worth of text on a computer screen and I can’t even stay interested for the minute and a half it takes to read them. I cannot read a novel online. I just can’t. A lot of people share this feeling. Still, we’re living in the afterfuture, so some sort of digital representation of your output is expected. After speaking with one of my literary heroes (via email, how progressive of us), he convinced me to look into e-readers, given that they’re designed to be easy on the eyes and come far closer to replicating the concept of a tangible book than just tossing words up on a website. I downloaded the Kindle app for my little iPod Touch and took a look at some books. I did not hate the experience. So after some fierce internal debate and a LOT of formatting, much of which I probably did wrong, all three completed issues of Rosario Dawson Loves Me are available for download right here, for those of you with Kindles or Kindle applications for your Apple devices. I realize not everyone can just go to Chicago (or Seattle, since that’s where I live now) and buy a physical copy, though I hope that if you do read and enjoy the digital versions you’ll PayPal me some cash for the 8.5x5.5” flyswatter copies because books, even little Kinko’s copied ‘zine-style books, will always be worth your money. Plus you can roll these ones up and smack your dog or boyfriend or whoever on the nose with them, which is nice.
