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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.