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bros?

>> No.17704163

>>17704142
such a brave chad

>> No.17704170

>>17704142
Imagine openly admitting you have soft small baby hands unable to carry infinite jest

>> No.17704188

>>17704142
imagine reading physical books voluntarily

>> No.17704198
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>>17704142
Based.

>> No.17704207

>>17704142
why not read it on a kindle....this is bs

>> No.17704214

>>17704142
i just don’t understand the logistics the necessitates this. if a book is too big. i doubt cutting it in half makes it much more portable. just seems like diminishing returns

>> No.17704240

>>17704142
Why would you not cut infinite jest at the point of the end notes for ease of use? Like, did he cut it in half to make a point before he even opened the book?

>> No.17704244

>>17704214
it seems like something one would do for likes on twitter

>> No.17704269

>>17704142
I've done this twice.

1) Family bought me Ted Hughes' Complete Poems as a b'day present. It's much too big to read comfortably in a single volume, so I cut it into three and made new covers.

2) Family bought me Cormac McCarthy's complete Border Trilogy (which I asked for) as b'day present but it was in ONE VOLUME. I never imagined they would do that. Far too big and unwieldy. And I hate the idea of putting multiplie volumes into one big fat volume. So again I cut it into three and made new covers.

Currently I'm considering giving my Don Quixote the same treatment. Two 500 page novels: reasonable. One 1000 page novel: hmmm.

>> No.17704386

>>17704142
why not just rip out the page you need?

>> No.17704516

>>17704244
This. The guy got some used books and cut them in half for twitter likes. No one would do that in earnest because it makes no sense.

>> No.17704519

Makes sense to me. If you carry a bag with books, notebooks and binders or whatever, thick books like this can take up a lot of usable space.

>> No.17704529

>>17704207
Disgusting

>> No.17704782

>>17704386
that's smart

>> No.17704828

>>17704516
this is cope

>> No.17704838

>>17704142
I don't feel so good..

>> No.17704848

>>17704188
Its nice

>> No.17704893

>he doesn't carry his hardcover tomes in his pockets

>> No.17705029
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17705029

That's the reason why "le livre de poche" has to be a standard.

>> No.17705254

>>17704269
I'm curious what your rebound volumes look like. Could you post some pictures?

>> No.17705382

This is pretty severely autistic but if it's not like a rare out of print thing I don't really see a problem with it

desu if you care that much about portability get a tablet and buy the ebook

>> No.17705448

>>17704142
Bro that would ruin IJ
>carry first half of book
>I won’t need the other half till I’m finished with this one
>Endnote
>reeeeeeeeee

>> No.17705462
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>>17705254
There's not much to see. Here's the Border Trilogy. All The Pretty Horses has the original front cover and a white back cover, then The Crossing has front and back plain white, then Cities of the Plain is white front and the original back.

>> No.17705485

>>17704170
Men with callouses don’t read Infinite Jest to begin with. It’s written for the crumbling fringe of the post-Boomer middle class. Parents made $80,000 a year doing manual labor, paid for a humanities degree at a state college, maybe a 4th tier private highschool somewhere in there. When income inequality comes for this class, they run for the longest book they can comprehend.

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>>17704142
Hero. This masturbation about keeping books physically perfect is an affectation of dilettantes and other posturing pseuds who like to pretend they are soooo into books and worship books and love to smell le books.

Fuck those books apart, mark the page with the year, close the book around your cock and fuck it a bit and leave your favorite passage covered in jizz so the pages stick together and no one can ever enjoy it again.

>> No.17705583

>>17705029
I envy you French and German bros

>> No.17705689

>>17705029
what exactly do you think penguin and oxford classics are? mass marketed paperbacks

>> No.17705830

>>17705689
>Classics
>The singer from the Smiths autobiography is published along side homer
Anon, I....

>> No.17705914

>>17705029
Based. Their edition of Monte Cristo is great.

>> No.17706094

Some people think books are for decorations, other think they are for reading

>> No.17706475

>>17705583
What's the German equivalent to Le Livre de poche?

>> No.17706499

>>17706475
I'm not sure, they're small yellow books

>> No.17706540
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>>17706475
>>17706499
Reclam, cheap books for students.

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>>17706475
>>17706499
They are called Reclam. They are pretty based.

>> No.17706573

>>17706540
>>17706562
Vielen Dank, Freunden

>> No.17706584

>>17704142
He’s cutting up paperbacks, not rare editions. Who cares?

>> No.17707220

>>17704142
Couldn't he get a kindle?

>> No.17707248

>>17704142
Do what you like, but I keep my books intact, especially long ones because I like flipping back when I read. I found Infinite Jest more fun because I was flipping back and forth. If I’d cut it up then I’d just be alternating volumes, which is more annoying.

>> No.17707443

>>17707220
he read f451

>> No.17709018

>>17704142
The real problem is reading anything by Jeffrey Eugenides

>> No.17709049

>>17704142
>mutilating "middlesex"

>> No.17709062

>>17704142
Not a big deal 99% of all books end up destroyed

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>>17704269
>a 1000 page volume is too unwieldy!

>> No.17709223

>>17706499
Reclam. I have millions of these from school. The standardized format is nice.

>> No.17709372

>>17704240
It seems so. Reading it without endnotes is as retarded as you can get.

>> No.17709650

>>17704214
He's sending a message; and the message is based...

>> No.17709742

>>17709650
(cont).......on the principles of the economy of socialization. Cutting the books in half is a technique not readily employed by most readers, and by not only carrying out this unorthodox technique on a book he most likely read for even more social leverage, but also by posting it on twitter, if not the largest social media platform, he asserts a position of perceived dominance in a system without direct, primitive necessity, which gains leverage by way of adaptation to a problem, based.....