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The LitBros will hunt this man for sport because of what he did to Infinite Jest.
Feels like a quite awful thing to do 😅
You should cut diagonally. If it makes a sandwich better, imagine what it can do for a novel.
I don’t know, I’m a priest and I once sliced up a Bible for personal use.
Tthere was once a particular version of the Bible that I wanted, but the publisher only made a hard-backed version. I hate hard-back books (especially Bibles). So I bought it and immediately sliced the cover off and made a new one out of old church bulletins and duct tape.
Clearly this is someone who actually reads their books. Given that they are mass market paperbacks… I have no problem with this. If I were an author I would much rather someone does this to my work and actually reads it and enjoys it to someone keeping a pristine copy unopened on their shelf forever.
I can sense Booktokers rushing this way to tell you you broke one of the book rules
infinite jest is half footnotes, which are at the back of the book, which is part of the “joke” of the book, being based around extreme academia.
Yeah, sure. The inane pretentiousness was just a “joke”!
Fuck that book.
The vast majority of books made in something like the last 50+ years are all very low quality and degrade rapidly anyway.
Looking at this awakened the memories of back pain from lugging all those fucking textbooks around when I was in school. God, why were they not split into a dozen parts like this? Do kids still carry them these days?
It’s a mass-produced book, and a paperback at that. You can certainly keep any such book in good condition to archive or re-read on your own terms. But that stack of acid-paper and cheap glue is going to eventually self-destruct. Unless it’s a limited production run, in danger of getting burned, autographed, is an actual collectable, or something else that makes it distinct or valuable, I say: go for it.
Source: I own a stack of these from back in the day. Despite my best efforts to store them appropriately, they’re all slowly rotting away. Some things just aren’t meant to last.
When you get right down to it, that’s true for everything. Everything self-destructs eventually. So, that seems like a strange reason to destroy it prematurely.
Of course, if it’s your book, you can do whatever you want with it. It just seems needlessly wasteful.
Well… Because it’s not wasteful at all. The point is to make it easier to read. As long as you’re not rough with it, all the pages should stay in, and then you can put both halves back on the shelf when you’re done (or just recycle it, since paper is one of the few things that’s actually recyclable). Nothing is being destroyed.
had this occur with my first copy of ninjas and superspies and ended up punching holes in it and putting it in a 3 ring binder. the binding - and slimness of the book so it had a thin spine - wasn’t meant to lay open.
I have never been so offended by something so harmless in the greater scheme of things.
Nahhhh, get an ebook or borrow from a library. And perhaps find some lighter reading for on the go. You do you, though.
I was an only child, but i can see this being invented when a parent or teacher figured out a way for 2 kids to read the same book at the same time, given one has a half book head start.
He could have cut the child in two and have them both read the whole book at once.
It’s the dlc
Wait, there is a NEW testament?!
Yeah, but it doesn’t really make a lot of sense. The way it gives the big guy a chatacter 180 when a huge part of his presentation has been his perpetuity… idk, not buying it.
The protag does have some fire lines though.
Part 1 and Part 2 of the first entry in the first four parts of an 18 part series.
Parts is parts
They are a magician. They make two books out of a single book. (At least they didn’t cut it hamburger style 🫠)
The reason I only find half of a story when exploring in video games
