Get. That. Garbage. Outta. Here. No, it’s not okay to slice books in half

In a Twitter post that quickly went viral Tuesday morning, user @alex_christofi wrote, “Yesterday my colleague called me a ‘book murderer’ because I cut long books in half to make them more portable. Does anyone else do this? Is it just me?” He added, later, “If people would just publish in sensible sized volumes I wouldn’t need to take matters into my own hands.”

— Alex Christofi January 21, 2020After one user asked what he does about Infinite Jest’s footnotes, he replied, “Glad you asked. I realised my error after I’d cut the book in half so I doubled down and made a separate booklet bound in a diagram of all the characters’ relationships.” When another noted he’d be risking losing one-half of a book, he replied, “I’ve heard the first half is the best half.

A novelist himself, who has labelled himself “book murderer” on his Twitter profile, it seems Christofi is in it for the laughs. It calls to mind the furor over Lauren Conrad’s 2012 Crafty Creations web-series, in which she infamously cut the pages out of several copies of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and used what was leftover as a design tool meant to serve as storage. The clip went viral, and the reaction was so swift and strong that Conrad immediately removed the video.

nparts lol, if your boys get their way they will have books removed from libraries. Sit down Wall🇺🇸Street🇺🇸Post

nparts If it’s written by a lib; it’s only right that you rip it apart.

nparts Stop writing articles about a twitter post

nparts If the book belongs to you, do what you want with it.

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