Chopping up books when they're physically too big

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September 15, 2026
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Chop up your books This is my appeal to readers everywhere: you should take a knife to your books. (And no, not in the sense that the destructive AI-scanners do.) Like apparently everybody else, my book club recently picked out Lonesome Dove. Iâm not a Western guy, but itâs clear that this pulitzer-winner earned it. Itâs good. But come on: this is an 850+ page paperback! It is what I call Too Big....
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