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There's no objective reason that this is wrong, but still, take that shit far far away from me

That psychopath needs reporting to the police.

That's just wrong. If you're worried about portability get an e-reader, don't butcher up works of art.

Author here, I don't give a fuck, as long as the book was bought/is read. Stop fetishizing books or start fucking them. 

I do wonder why this person wouldn't just use a e-ink reader, though.

this is so wrong.

you're supposed to cut them in half so you can fit each side in the pockets of your cargo shorts.

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.

In all honesty, in no way sarcastically, I consider this a war crime.

"yeah, I just finished Infinite. It was pretty good, abrupt ending though. I hear Jest picks up right where it left off."

Skip jail. Straight to a firing squad of librarians.

You should cut diagonally. If it makes a sandwich better, imagine what it can do for a novel.

I have never been so offended by something so harmless in the greater scheme of things.

last year I've allowed myself to do marginalia, to allow me to write notes and whatever I want on the books I read while I read. it's inherently destructive, but it changes the whole experience. reading is no longer a passive activity but a conversation with the material. and I love it.

but felt guilty about doing irreversible changes to the book. then this shit shows up.

As someone who would never, ever do this to one of my beloved collection: Go for it. Watever keeps you enjoying them. As others have said, we're not talking hundred year old first edition hardcovers here. You can still tape them up and pass them on, unlike those philistines who take one on a hike and rip out the pages they've read to use for campfire tinder.

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.

Unless it's Warren Peace, no one should be doing this!?

I cut mine cross-wise to save space. There is a lot of authors who make no sense.

Before seeing this i thought i was anti death penalty.

The reason I only find half of a story when exploring in video games

This doesn't actually save much space, which is why I cut mine in half horizontally across the pages

They're gonna be damaged by simply reading them anyways. If they didn't want the books damaged, they should come in smaller parts.

I have a compact paperback copy of The Count of Monte Cristo that this would be helpful but the end pages will just fall off for most bindings so it’s not a good idea.

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.

I love destroying the books I read. I buy ancient paperbacks used and choose not to care about their well-being, storing them in my pocket until the wheels fall off. When I read Dracula my book had no front or back cover and I kept the last 15 or so pages tucked in loose in the middle of the book because they would fall off every time I cracked it open.

Ngl this inspires me. I was just looking up pocket versions of books I could stuff in my tool bag. It never occured to me I could just butcher a book.

I don't even like it when they destroy books to scan them by cutting off their spines. I prefer when they use scanning methods that preserve the books as well as possible. This feels just straight up evil.