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People Doing Terrible Things to Books, But (Possibly) Not Being Terrible Themselves

Posted on February 5, 2020     119 Comments

Late last month writer Alex Christofi posted a tweet about how he would physically cut long books in half to make them more “portable,” thus revealing himself as history’s worst monster, and also, starting up an internet conversation about how people treat their books. This has lead Slate to reprint an essay by Anne Fadiman […]

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