20260915 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 . I’m not a Western guy, but it’s clear that this pulitzer-winner earned it. It’s good. But come on: this is an 850+ page paperback! It is what I call Too Big. It’s going to tire out your hands to hold up an 850-page book for the time it takes to read an 850-page book. If you read in bed, it’s going to tire your arms out, trying to hold this giant tome over your head. If you want to take this book on a plane or bus, it’s going to take up half of your bag. So, I would like to recommend you to a practice I call Chop That Book Up Into Reasonable Sizes . It takes a few minutes and very few tools. You also can enjoy reading reasonably-sized volumes of big books. At the risk of parroting ‘you can just do things’, I’m telling you: You Can Just chop up your book.…