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.
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That's why I cut mine in half through the middle of the cover; top and bottom halves. Sure, makes it a little harder to read, but worth it when I can fit each half in my pockets perfectly.
if you cut them long ways, you can hide them up your sleeve like a hotdog
You should cut them into four pieces like me so you can rearrange them to get multiple different stories for the price of one book!
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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.
Almost all of my books are thrifted, which gives me the luxury of no guilt. And I get to argue with previous marginalia, which is fun because they can’t respond.
This is kinda how books worked throughout most of medieval history. Paper was expensive and anyway, the margins often become teaching tools in and of themselves. It becomes a centuries long comment section, so ideas get passed down and develop through the centuries. Like one of the most important books of medieval philosophy that probably no one without a doctoral in theology gives a shit about is Peter Lombard’s Sentences which is just a collection of common comments people in about books that he thought were good for teaching. (I have been working on implementing a HTML cross reference version of it using Twine, and have been trying to parse [pun intended] a theological discussion about what it means to enjoy not use god. Larger project is to recreate an accessible “medieval curriculum” through Twine)
As much as I’d fantasize about all my books preserved as a library, they’ll probably be separated from each other someday. The least I can do is put my soul in them - tuck a pamphlet or bookmark, a movie ticket. I’ve never been unhappy seeing a comment in a book - I was reading a 60 year old middle school text recently, and discovered a kid had wrote “[clearly female name] is a MAGGOT F_GGOT!!!!!!” which was just so fucking hilarious.
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It's destructive but it's also constructive. That conversation with the material gives future owners new perspectives. At least in my opinion as someone who collects old subcultural texts. Notes in the margins adds to the experience of an old book
it's transformative, if I'm expected to change when reading a book so is the book
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Since I turned 30 I write in the margins of books I read. The better the book is the more notes. Its much more engaging.
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The reason I only find half of a story when exploring in video games
Nahhhh, get an ebook or borrow from a library. And perhaps find some lighter reading for on the go. You do you, though.
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.
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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.
Before seeing this i thought i was anti death penalty.
They are a magician. They make two books out of a single book. (At least they didn't cut it hamburger style 🫠)
This doesn't actually save much space, which is why I cut mine in half horizontally across the pages
If you cut Infinite Jest in half, and half of infinity is infinity, is it now two Infinite Jests? Should every page in Infinite Jest be page ∞ since they're all a division of infinity?
I don't know smart math things so I'm just bs'ing here, please don't tell me how wrong I am.
Unless it's Warren Peace, no one should be doing this!?
Warren peace
Guessing you're dictating this to your less-cultured secretary?
No it's a humorous adaption on the classic, that takes place in the woods and the characters are anthromorphised rabbits.
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wtf
Like some psycho hobo
*thick books
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.
Time to learn DIY book binding...
They're gonna be damaged by simply reading them anyways. If they didn't want the books damaged, they should come in smaller parts.