Kite Lines Archives

[John Barresi]

Published from 1977 to 2000, Kite Lines was the longest-running professional magazine in kite history to its end-point in time. It was the authoritative and comprehensive source of kite news and the trusted standard of reference for kiting internationally.

The writing was done by kitefliers, for kitefliers, peer-reviewed and scrupulously edited to produce compressed but in-depth and accurate prose, reliable for the expert but readable for the novice. The photography and illustrations were researched and selected for informational value as well as visual impact. The pages were designed to enhance and clarify the stories and the reading experience. Finally, Kite Lines was printed in full color on glossy stock. In presenting Kite Lines in an electronic format, we are striving to maintain the original look and feel of the magazine to the fullest extent possible.

You will find in the 50 issues that follow some of the most respected authors and photographers in kiting's recent decades of exciting growth. Kite Lines was the place where these contributors came to be published, where they trusted the editing and layout that would reinforce their work. Kite Lines, too, was the place where research was done that brought out and discovered many of the names that are now recognized as leaders in kiting, writing and illustrating.

Each issue takes our editor between four and eight hours to convert to searchable PDF format, and are being released every other month, in-between our regular issues of Kitelife... Until all 50 issues are on line.

After a great deal of consideration, we also decided to include all advertisements as

well to illustrate the history and evolution of sport kiting with full accuracy.

The Kite Lines archives are absolutely free to view, are somewhat large at 12MB each or so, but are very well worth the download.

Check out what we have so far:

http://kitelife.com/forum/index.php?autoco...amp;showcat=114