When you feel like you’re drowning in your to-do list, it’s easy to push aside that book you’ve been meaning to read for the last six months. The longer you wait, the less you can remember why you wanted to read the book in the first place. Maybe a friend recommended it, maybe it’s a sequel, or maybe you just saw it in a window and knew you had to have it. But now, whatever reason you wanted to read it in the first place seems infinitely smaller than the reason why you can’t do it right now, the reason why you tell yourself “maybe later,” you just have to finish this one thing.

This zine exists to instill a craving to read, a longing to curl up somewhere comfortable, in a place of your own, where nothing exists outside your little bubble. It exists as proof of how addicting a life beyond our own can be. When you allow yourself to let reality go and enter a fantastical world full of complex characters, plot twists, and cliffhangers that will leave you itching to grab a book and never put it down.

Because The Reading Nook had a lot of post-print elements, like stamps, stickers, colored-in portions, and sticky note, it required a lot of preplanning and had an assembly line like process, some of which is documented below.