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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.

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

YOU AWFUL PSYCHO, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, THEY WERE SO YOUNG !!!?

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

Imean paperbacks are cheap and would also probably do this on their own in due time anyway. If he was doing this to hardcovers I'd see it as a bit of an issue.

"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.

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.

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

Rick Steves actually recommends people to do this with his travel guides

My grandfather used to do this but for every chapter because his wrists were too weak to hold on to a full sized book for too long.

Soft cover, cheap books that'll probably never be significantly useful for collectors, I guess. You start tearing apart tomes and older works though and that's a line.

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.

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

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.

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.

I shred my books to save time reading

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.

Deport him to... away. Far far away.

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

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.

I shred the binding side with a saw, so I can scan the book with my Fujitsu scanner. Easy way to digitalize a entire book.

They do this for you in Korea. A lot of long novels are released chopped up into ~200 page chunks.