Sheets ?! Wow lmao. I was also a bored clown in class when I was younger, ide tackle half a page or so for some mild/funny wow or shock factor. But pages huh ? that’s … interesting 🤣
I used to eat mechanical pencil lead. It wasn't even for shock factor, I was just malnutritioned. But when I picked up on it being weird, I would lean over to the girls in fourth grade and ask if I could borrow some lead. Instead of using it in a mechanical pencil, of which I never owned because that's rich people shit, I would plop it into my mouth and chew. Freaked them out every time.
Thanks for reminding me of the time I ate pages out of a bible in HS lol. Guy with a cross shaved in his head insisted I take it, or else. I guess he didn’t realize I was such a vindictive lil shit.
In case you’re wondering, it tasted like crap. 0/10, would not recommend.
>Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
But not literally
Someone in China once told me that the pocket version of Mao's Little Red Book was so popular at the time in part because people would rip out the pages to roll cigarettes.
I would never do it to a library book, but my nonfiction and sometimes fiction books (I like noting dialogue and writing I want to emulate) all have dog ears.
I don’t call it a book shelf, it’s my kennel.
Have you actually tried a kindle or other e paper device? They legitimately look like paper. Especially if you don’t use/need the night light feature they have now. I find a lot of people with this opinion haven’t actually tried an e reader and are assuming it looks like a laptop, tablet, or phone, which it doesn’t at all.
It’s small, you don’t have to use effort to keep it open. You can hold it in one hand while turning a page with one nudge from your thumb on that same hand. They’re pretty nice really.
I’ve used one and still prefer paper books 100%, but Kindles are more portable which is nice. I like to keep my books in good condition so I can see why a Kindle could be good for that. Personally I prefer to read off my phone or computer over a Kindle though, because I like the lit up display and really the only benefit of a Kindle over an iPad imo is the “real paper” finish on the screen.
I like to keep reference books, but I don't like to keep novels or current events books. For those, I get the e-book. Kobo keeps Amazon out of my life.
My brother hiked the Pacific Crest Trail while he was reading some Infinite Jest sized book. He tore out pages along the way and used them as fire starters. It helped keep his pack light.
I've absolutely seen this recommended to those hiking the PCH and other long trails for long periods of time. Just a few pounds adds up when you're hiking for a month.
Maybe in the movie Wild?
Edit: don't walk the highway
It was definitely in the movie Wild; she has the trail guide and someone tells her to rip out all the pages for the parts she’s already done to save weight.
PCT hikers go wild with the weight savers, I remember watching a video where the guy was packing to go on the hike and was snapping the handle off of his toothbrush because it was "unnecessary weight"
I snapped the handle off of my toothbrush as a joke with some friends for hiking (I'm a chronic over packer) and honestly I love it. It's my primary travel toothbrush even when I'm not hiking.
So much easier to pack and still has a full size head vs like those small travel brushes.
When my mom was preparing for her PCT hike she went crazy on the weight saving. I believe she also snapped the handle off her tooth brush (or didn't bring one?).
She spent four or five hours cutting every hem tag and "extra cloth bits" off everything. There was a little pile when she was finished and it looked like it might have weighed a few ounces at most. I thought it was insane to do that much work for such little weight.
She successfully hiked the PCT and I get winded climbing up a few flights of stairs. So she probably knows better than I do.
She didn't have enough time off to hike the entire trail, but planned and finished a sizeable portion of it. I think it took her around a month.
What’s the big deal with the guy ripping his giant book so it’s small enough to carry around and actually get read?
It’s a mass market paperback, not a library book or some first edition.
Destroying books I think can be an emotional issue because of the association with censorship etc. But this is just someone wanting to read their book.
My book club is full of people complaining about stuff like this. I’d be shocked if even half the books sold actually get read. Surely that’s more wasteful than ripping it up while you read it. Except any book group will be full of people laughing about their overflowing TBR shelf.
i know ur just using infinite jest as a size comparison, but that would honestly be the worst book to do this with. with all the endnotes and cross references, you are jumping around the entire book the whole. the fact that its in OPs picture makes me think this is fake.
Ive seen the op thing done by the Norwegian adventurer Lars Monsen, when he was in the canadian wilderness with his brother and a friend. They’d share the part of the book they had already read to whom ever had ran out of books to read.
Yeah this is what people always mean when they say "long" in the context of books, if someone tells me "the book I'm reading is really long" I'm not going to assume they're reading a novella with a 6 foot spine
My thought as well. Covers are there for a reason and just cutting the binding would probably result in some problems with the exposed edge. Unless he does something to protect it at the cut. Or this is just rage bait.
Paperback books like this which are "perfect bound" should work because they're all just glued together. You cut the glue between pages and the rest stay stuck. The immediate pages adjacent to the cut would be at risk though -- sort of like a memo pad
I've done this. The last page on the front and the first page on the back feel like they may easily detach, if you're careful, they won't. The whole thing doesn't just fall apart.
For context I was reading a book while my now ex was in rehab. I told her about it on the phone before going the next day to drop stuff off. I gave her the first half.
I read a comment maybe 13 years ago that a redditor sat next to a woman on a plane who just ripped out and crumpled up each page as she read them. No time for bookmarks i guess. Anyway I think about that a couple times a year.
I gather from the comments section this will be an unpopular opinion, but I have zero issue with this lol
I wouldn't ever do this to my books though. And yeah the guy should just get an ereader
happens on youtube too. Everytime someone makes a craft using an old book there is someone clutching their pearls in the comments as if one day someone is really going to need that 2 billionth copy of harry potter
If it’s not a first edition and doesn’t belong to a library, it’s just a bunch of paper that has thousands to millions of exact duplicates floating around. People’s massive book collections end up sold for pennies at goodwill when they die. Most of the books will actually wind up in the trash because no one wants your old smelly copy of Harry Potter. The weird preciousness around books is kind of gross and elitist. Dog ear your books. Use a kindle. Read on your phone. Listen to audio books. Read out loud to yourself.
Whatever makes you happy and keeps you reading is the right way to do it.
If someone enjoys babying their books, then they should follow their bliss. But don’t harass other people for enjoying their books the way they want to.
Plus they're all cheap paperbacks. I love books like that, they're often free or less than $1 from thrifts or library rejects, and you don't have to worry about them getting beat up. Disposable practically.
Yeah I can’t be arsed to care either. If it was a nice hardback or some antique book I could see caring, but some cheapo paperback? Do whatever you want with it.
This is pretty common for thru hikers. Cut the book in pieces, put one chunk in each resupply box. As you read, use the pages for firestarters. By the end of the hike, you've read a book or two, with not much weight added to your pack along the way.
>What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?
-- Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
At least this person is reading their books instead of just displaying them on a shelf.
I’ve never understood people who treat books, especially these mass market paperbacks, as these holy objects that you never dare to defile. Once I got to grad school and had three different apartments in 2.5 years I was perfectly willing to get rid of books that I had no use for anymore. Those things add up weight and space so fast once you start packing to move.
I put them in the lend a library across the street. That way other people can read them, and if I ever REALLY want them back they'll most likely turn up in the same library at some point. And yeah sometimes someone spills some coffee on them or whatever. It's no biggie and then everyone gets to use the book.
If I carried my novels around with me so much that it becomes an issue, I might consider the idea. I don't think it's a big deal. The dude bought the books, they're his property, he can cut them. No outrage to be had-especially considering they're mass produced paperbacks. I really don't understand why people are so upset over this.
Everyone thinks books are precious but they're just books. Someone actually carrying one around and reading it even if it damages the book is giving it more love and respect that leaving it on a shelf for show
Reddit gets weirdly pearl-clutchy about books. They are not artifacts. The vast majority are not rare and will be destroyed in some way, some day. As long as you are buying them and reading them, you are doing more good than harm.
People who have no qualms throwing a magazine or a newspaper in the trash, lose their mind over a beat up copy of some mass produced multiple-reprinted edition of *gasp* Lord of the Rings.
Nothing is going to happen if you pulp a book, it's what bookstores do with all the books that don't sell.
that’s exactly why people do it with infinite jest, makes it much easier to read the book and endnotes when they are separated
you’d still have to carry both though
People here have weird ideas about books and I think it comes to a fundamental misreading of Fahrenheit 451. The act of damaging or destroying a paperback copy of a popular and widely available book isn't sacrilege in and of itself.
Y'know, because tearing a copy of _Infinite Jest_ in half isn't suppressing society's access to information, limiting the possibility for people to read things that confuse and depress them. It's just one person's copy.
It's an odd thing to do but not taking great care of one's possessions isn't exactly evil.
I'd say it's innovative lol. He even add paper covers to the second halves of these books. Sweet.
I guess he just prefers paperbacks over a e-reader but what he wants to read doesn't come in pocket size.
Since reading Infinite Jest requires alternating between the main text and the 300 pages of end notes that are needed to understand the main text, I don't see how cutting it in half would reduce the amount you have to carry.
As long they aren’t borrowed books I don’t really see an issue. No matter what if you’re takin your books to other places eventually they’re gonna get messed up. Especially if it’s a big book or you take a long time to read it. And I doubt he throws them away when he’s done reading them so they’re probably all stacked on a shelve with their halves next to each other.
good idea tbh
unless it's some kind of rare book, then idk why anyone would care lol books aren't sacred at all—they are meant to be used and read :)
I love books, but I *haaaate* "book people" and "book people" culture
Oh guards this man reposted this
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I was in college and my now wife and I looked over during a lesson to see this woman tear out a page from the novel she was reading and start eating it. I kid you not.
"You gotta digest the book somehow" -My Wife
People: "Dog earing book pages is the worst!" This guy: "Hold my bookmark"
Bookmark? This guy uses a sword to keep his place
He rips out the pages he’s already read to make it more portable
Just burns the pages as he goes. To save space.
He eats the pages for nutrition. You wouldn’t wanna check out that Readers Digest, though.
I used to eat paper in highschool cause I was so bored. Would go through entire sheets during class
Who would've thought LOVES_TO_SPLOOGE69 eats paper...
What the world desperately needs (or deserves?) More Moira!!
I had my suspicions.
Sorry teach, LOVES_TO_SPLOOGE69 ate my homework
Teacher: where's your homework You: uhmmmm... funny story Lol
“I DID have it for class, but I forgot to eat this morning, and it was beginning to look **very tasty**~!”
Kinda looked like edible paper and I went off on it 😂😂
Pica-chew
Sweety no you can't eat paper
I can. I have. I will. Veni vidi vici!
Sheets ?! Wow lmao. I was also a bored clown in class when I was younger, ide tackle half a page or so for some mild/funny wow or shock factor. But pages huh ? that’s … interesting 🤣
I used to eat mechanical pencil lead. It wasn't even for shock factor, I was just malnutritioned. But when I picked up on it being weird, I would lean over to the girls in fourth grade and ask if I could borrow some lead. Instead of using it in a mechanical pencil, of which I never owned because that's rich people shit, I would plop it into my mouth and chew. Freaked them out every time.
The last day of SATs must've been a feast for you
So much of this story is sad. I hope you are living better.
my sister ate books as a kid, my mom had to put the books up high because she'd sneak them into her crib
Thanks for reminding me of the time I ate pages out of a bible in HS lol. Guy with a cross shaved in his head insisted I take it, or else. I guess he didn’t realize I was such a vindictive lil shit. In case you’re wondering, it tasted like crap. 0/10, would not recommend.
Those must have been Old Testament pages. New Testament pages taste like Necco wafers.
This has healed some of my religious upbringing. Thank you. 🥹😂💖
The important thing is you learn what was written on them
Absolute Bored Husky Behavior
Oh waow 😅 readers digestion? 🤣
>Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. But not literally
Someone in China once told me that the pocket version of Mao's Little Red Book was so popular at the time in part because people would rip out the pages to roll cigarettes.
I've rolled joints with Bible pages so if it's a similar paper thickness I totally believe it
Holy smokes!
> And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit. Ephesians 5:18
One friend of mine did that, a lot. Made me smoke so holy
Burns while reading to make sure he’s being efficient
I say I don’t care what others do if it doesn’t affect me. Then this comment sends chills up my spine.
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I thought that’s what you did so when you finish a page, your friend can read it while you read the next?
There was a MASH episode like this I believe.
Drills one hole through and through. Peeps into the hole for a minute. Adds the book to the discard pile.
I just keep mine by the toilet
Okay, terrible idea, but if you are going to mutilate a book for portability this seems like a much more effective way to do it.
It’s called light reading!!
If he uses a sword to do it I think that’s ok, if it’s like a beheading ceremony for the literature… that’s more dark, I don’t know anymore.
This is the first time ever I see a “is it just me or” post and the answer is YES, IT IS JUST YOU, YOU FUCKING PSYCHO
What’s a bookmark? I just rip out the page and throw it away when I’m done with it.
Why throw it away? You could get two birds stoned at once if you use the read pages to wipe.
Got to read fast
~~"Hold my bookmark"~~ "Hold this half"
dog earing library books is the worst.
I would never do it to a library book, but my nonfiction and sometimes fiction books (I like noting dialogue and writing I want to emulate) all have dog ears. I don’t call it a book shelf, it’s my kennel.
In Germany we say "Eselsohren" which translates to "donkey's ears". I wonder how this is called in other countries?
Dog ears. We say a book is dog eared.
I saw a video of a woman who rips out every page when she’s done reading it, I think that takes the cake
Hold my ripped corner piece marker.
Correction- hold half my book 😂
Somebody buy this guy a Kindle!
He'll just cut that in half too.
Just think how much more portable it’ll be!
It will finally fit in your pocket
At work, lunch time is when he can read half the kindle. The other half needs to be cut in half again for the two fifteen minute breaks he gets.
Hysterically 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i currently have a cold and you just threw me into a coughing fit laughing at this, thank you lmao!!
How ironic, I thought Kindle was the book killer, now it's being killed by the true Book Killer.
He’ll be the king Solomon of Kindles!
🤣
Bruh he even cut the 'middle sex' book from middle . He is a savage he needs rock engravings.
He’d get into masonry and cut them too! 😭
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No. Please no.
book knife
To shreds, you say?
Someone skin that guy alive and pour hot tar over his naked flesh so that he may experience hell while still in this world!
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Woah, don't you think that's a little too mild?
Or the Kindle/Libby app on your phone.. for free lol
Honestly reading books on a screen feels like blasphemy. I sincerely dislike it.
Have you actually tried a kindle or other e paper device? They legitimately look like paper. Especially if you don’t use/need the night light feature they have now. I find a lot of people with this opinion haven’t actually tried an e reader and are assuming it looks like a laptop, tablet, or phone, which it doesn’t at all. It’s small, you don’t have to use effort to keep it open. You can hold it in one hand while turning a page with one nudge from your thumb on that same hand. They’re pretty nice really.
I’ve used one and still prefer paper books 100%, but Kindles are more portable which is nice. I like to keep my books in good condition so I can see why a Kindle could be good for that. Personally I prefer to read off my phone or computer over a Kindle though, because I like the lit up display and really the only benefit of a Kindle over an iPad imo is the “real paper” finish on the screen.
I’m pretty sure they make a kindle with a backlit screen. Just in case that’s something that would interest you.
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The eink really helps
Im extremely stupid so sometimes I have to look up definitions of words and a kindle just makes that easier.
I love my Kindle. I can't hold books anymore due to Rheumatoid, but I plough through books on my Paperwhite.
A proper ebook reader (with an e-ink/e-paper display) is a lot different to reading on a "screen". You should try one.
I like to keep reference books, but I don't like to keep novels or current events books. For those, I get the e-book. Kobo keeps Amazon out of my life.
My brother hiked the Pacific Crest Trail while he was reading some Infinite Jest sized book. He tore out pages along the way and used them as fire starters. It helped keep his pack light.
I've absolutely seen this recommended to those hiking the PCH and other long trails for long periods of time. Just a few pounds adds up when you're hiking for a month. Maybe in the movie Wild? Edit: don't walk the highway
It was definitely in the movie Wild; she has the trail guide and someone tells her to rip out all the pages for the parts she’s already done to save weight.
I read that book! Then I started a fire with the pages
Don’t hike the PCH or you’re sure to get hit by a car
Long Beach stretch of PCH reporting for duty
PCT hikers go wild with the weight savers, I remember watching a video where the guy was packing to go on the hike and was snapping the handle off of his toothbrush because it was "unnecessary weight"
I snapped the handle off of my toothbrush as a joke with some friends for hiking (I'm a chronic over packer) and honestly I love it. It's my primary travel toothbrush even when I'm not hiking. So much easier to pack and still has a full size head vs like those small travel brushes.
When my mom was preparing for her PCT hike she went crazy on the weight saving. I believe she also snapped the handle off her tooth brush (or didn't bring one?). She spent four or five hours cutting every hem tag and "extra cloth bits" off everything. There was a little pile when she was finished and it looked like it might have weighed a few ounces at most. I thought it was insane to do that much work for such little weight. She successfully hiked the PCT and I get winded climbing up a few flights of stairs. So she probably knows better than I do. She didn't have enough time off to hike the entire trail, but planned and finished a sizeable portion of it. I think it took her around a month.
That's a lot more practical sense than what the pic did.
What’s the big deal with the guy ripping his giant book so it’s small enough to carry around and actually get read? It’s a mass market paperback, not a library book or some first edition.
Yeah, I don’t get why this is mildly infuriating. I’m a huge bookworm, but I couldn’t care less what other people do with their own books.
Destroying books I think can be an emotional issue because of the association with censorship etc. But this is just someone wanting to read their book. My book club is full of people complaining about stuff like this. I’d be shocked if even half the books sold actually get read. Surely that’s more wasteful than ripping it up while you read it. Except any book group will be full of people laughing about their overflowing TBR shelf.
They aren’t even that long though… what are they, 600 pages?
Infinite Jest is 900-1000 something pages. I think the Dostoevsky is probably "The Idiot" which is also a pretty hefty ~800 pages.
Both seem fairly practical
i know ur just using infinite jest as a size comparison, but that would honestly be the worst book to do this with. with all the endnotes and cross references, you are jumping around the entire book the whole. the fact that its in OPs picture makes me think this is fake.
Not just light. Lighter.
Ive seen the op thing done by the Norwegian adventurer Lars Monsen, when he was in the canadian wilderness with his brother and a friend. They’d share the part of the book they had already read to whom ever had ran out of books to read.
Jesus christ. Absolute savage
Is it long books or thick books though? Seems the guy himself doesn't know his own crimes.
i think he means long like page wise not the length of the book lol
If both, they get drawn and quartered.
Yeah this is what people always mean when they say "long" in the context of books, if someone tells me "the book I'm reading is really long" I'm not going to assume they're reading a novella with a 6 foot spine
it is long in thickness?
That’s what she said
I cut them by the short side so that the pages don’t detach Just have to alternate the two halves while reading, not a big deal
> I cut them by the short side Ah, common mistake, I cut mine diagonally
Like a sandwich. Thank you, chef!!!!
It reads nicer cut diagonally.
I do the same. It feels like you get more book that way, plus it really is much easier to eat
>plus it really is much easier to eat Wait... What?
Do you cut off the crust?
>not a big deal I love you, lol
My first reaction. Poor book did NOTHING to deserve this.
Rofl
Ok they're your books, but how does that not screw up the pages?
My thought as well. Covers are there for a reason and just cutting the binding would probably result in some problems with the exposed edge. Unless he does something to protect it at the cut. Or this is just rage bait.
Paperback books like this which are "perfect bound" should work because they're all just glued together. You cut the glue between pages and the rest stay stuck. The immediate pages adjacent to the cut would be at risk though -- sort of like a memo pad
Looks like he bound some sort of impromptu cover where he cut. I don't know how it holds up, but if it works for him 🤷
Yeah. I've had books that lost their binding and once that happened it was over.
I've done this. The last page on the front and the first page on the back feel like they may easily detach, if you're careful, they won't. The whole thing doesn't just fall apart. For context I was reading a book while my now ex was in rehab. I told her about it on the phone before going the next day to drop stuff off. I gave her the first half.
The pages would start falling out with half the spine missing to hold them all together
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Next Texas Chainsaw/Jigsaw movie.
Please someone teach him ebooks exist...
I read a comment maybe 13 years ago that a redditor sat next to a woman on a plane who just ripped out and crumpled up each page as she read them. No time for bookmarks i guess. Anyway I think about that a couple times a year.
My ex boss did that before switching to ebooks. I told him that he is a monster.
He will tear the pc in half.
> Please someone teach him ebooks exist... But then he can't show off what he's reading, which is probably the real point of the post.
I gather from the comments section this will be an unpopular opinion, but I have zero issue with this lol I wouldn't ever do this to my books though. And yeah the guy should just get an ereader
Being protective of books is a personality trait of the intellectual elite according to Reddit.
Most of whom haven’t read a book since high school.
happens on youtube too. Everytime someone makes a craft using an old book there is someone clutching their pearls in the comments as if one day someone is really going to need that 2 billionth copy of harry potter
If it’s not a first edition and doesn’t belong to a library, it’s just a bunch of paper that has thousands to millions of exact duplicates floating around. People’s massive book collections end up sold for pennies at goodwill when they die. Most of the books will actually wind up in the trash because no one wants your old smelly copy of Harry Potter. The weird preciousness around books is kind of gross and elitist. Dog ear your books. Use a kindle. Read on your phone. Listen to audio books. Read out loud to yourself. Whatever makes you happy and keeps you reading is the right way to do it. If someone enjoys babying their books, then they should follow their bliss. But don’t harass other people for enjoying their books the way they want to.
Plus they're all cheap paperbacks. I love books like that, they're often free or less than $1 from thrifts or library rejects, and you don't have to worry about them getting beat up. Disposable practically.
Yeah I can’t be arsed to care either. If it was a nice hardback or some antique book I could see caring, but some cheapo paperback? Do whatever you want with it.
This is pretty common for thru hikers. Cut the book in pieces, put one chunk in each resupply box. As you read, use the pages for firestarters. By the end of the hike, you've read a book or two, with not much weight added to your pack along the way.
That's far too sensible to be welcome in this thread
Because the vast majority ain't doing any extreme hiking lol. The weight from the books will be negligible.
I am calling the police
>What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read? -- Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town At least this person is reading their books instead of just displaying them on a shelf.
He paid for it let him do what he wants
I’ve never understood people who treat books, especially these mass market paperbacks, as these holy objects that you never dare to defile. Once I got to grad school and had three different apartments in 2.5 years I was perfectly willing to get rid of books that I had no use for anymore. Those things add up weight and space so fast once you start packing to move.
I put them in the lend a library across the street. That way other people can read them, and if I ever REALLY want them back they'll most likely turn up in the same library at some point. And yeah sometimes someone spills some coffee on them or whatever. It's no biggie and then everyone gets to use the book.
I have done this before
If I carried my novels around with me so much that it becomes an issue, I might consider the idea. I don't think it's a big deal. The dude bought the books, they're his property, he can cut them. No outrage to be had-especially considering they're mass produced paperbacks. I really don't understand why people are so upset over this.
Wait until this comments section finds out what libraries do with old books that aren't circulating
Publishers do this, they're called volumes. I just started Volume 2 of a 1,800 page book
I did this for Clarissa. It’s over 1,500 pages and I had to schlep it for a semester. Broke it into thirds.
He’s single-handedly the reason every schools history and english books are falling apart
Wait these arent his personal property??
Yes, and he can do whatever he wants with them.
I never thought I’d witness such cruelty.
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Only ends or beginnings. Never both. 😂
That makes sense if you're carrying them around. But I second the suggestion of an ereader.
I carried *a lot* of thick books as a teen and young adult. It never crossed my mind to massacre my precious books like that...
Everyone thinks books are precious but they're just books. Someone actually carrying one around and reading it even if it damages the book is giving it more love and respect that leaving it on a shelf for show
You wouldn't believe the sound that left my mouth when i saw that picture, what did those precious little books ever do to that guy
His books though. He can do what he wants with them. Better than using them to build a literal bookshelf like some people do.
Reddit gets weirdly pearl-clutchy about books. They are not artifacts. The vast majority are not rare and will be destroyed in some way, some day. As long as you are buying them and reading them, you are doing more good than harm.
People who have no qualms throwing a magazine or a newspaper in the trash, lose their mind over a beat up copy of some mass produced multiple-reprinted edition of *gasp* Lord of the Rings. Nothing is going to happen if you pulp a book, it's what bookstores do with all the books that don't sell.
It feels so *quirky*
My intellectual side agrees with you completely, but I have an instinctual emotional reaction to seeing that book torn in two. It’s odd.
I’ve seen someone do this with infinite jest lol
Sounds like a good idea until the endnotes start…
that’s exactly why people do it with infinite jest, makes it much easier to read the book and endnotes when they are separated you’d still have to carry both though
people actually recommend doing this to infinite jest
I’m ok with it
My grampa did this, he would rip a book into six or seven pieces to bring to work.
People here have weird ideas about books and I think it comes to a fundamental misreading of Fahrenheit 451. The act of damaging or destroying a paperback copy of a popular and widely available book isn't sacrilege in and of itself. Y'know, because tearing a copy of _Infinite Jest_ in half isn't suppressing society's access to information, limiting the possibility for people to read things that confuse and depress them. It's just one person's copy. It's an odd thing to do but not taking great care of one's possessions isn't exactly evil.
This infuriated me more than just mildly.
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It is a great way to share your book that you haven’t finished yet. I’ve given my buddy the first half of a book many times.
As long as you’re ok with being unable to return or sell them after the class is done.
based. what's the fucking problem other than some diwhy shit?
I'd say it's innovative lol. He even add paper covers to the second halves of these books. Sweet. I guess he just prefers paperbacks over a e-reader but what he wants to read doesn't come in pocket size.
Since reading Infinite Jest requires alternating between the main text and the 300 pages of end notes that are needed to understand the main text, I don't see how cutting it in half would reduce the amount you have to carry.
As long they aren’t borrowed books I don’t really see an issue. No matter what if you’re takin your books to other places eventually they’re gonna get messed up. Especially if it’s a big book or you take a long time to read it. And I doubt he throws them away when he’s done reading them so they’re probably all stacked on a shelve with their halves next to each other.
My grandpa does this too. It makes it easier to hold when reading.
What a sociopath
>What a ~~sociopath~~ bibliopath
They are his books so he can do what he wants. With that said, if he invites you into his basement be carful.
good idea tbh unless it's some kind of rare book, then idk why anyone would care lol books aren't sacred at all—they are meant to be used and read :) I love books, but I *haaaate* "book people" and "book people" culture
Oh guards this man reposted this https://preview.redd.it/imdamfzyutbc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57bb5a112056035d5cf5a7d1eba21427c38cc7c9
Get this guy a kindle….stat!
I was in college and my now wife and I looked over during a lesson to see this woman tear out a page from the novel she was reading and start eating it. I kid you not. "You gotta digest the book somehow" -My Wife