Twitter Debates: Is Cutting Books In Half To Make Them Portable Genius Or Sacreligious?

So, you're a busy person. You're carrying around a lot of stuff: papers, files, briefcases, cellphones, babies, who knows. You want to dig into a classic, lengthy piece of literature while you commute but these dang books are too long. So you saw them in half.

This is the situation Twitter has been grappling with today after Twitter user Alex Cristofi shared his creative solution to making books portable.

As Cristofi noted, some might consider this a form of "book murder." Indeed, many are comparing Cristofi's method to "absolute psycho shit."

Others noted that the practice is particularly ill-fitting for David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, a notoriously long novel that features copious footnotes that require the reader to flip to the back of the novel often.

Surprisingly, a wide swath of Book Twitter was cool with Cristofi's idea, based on the idea that it's fair to do anything that grants you access to the text.

Like many Twitter arguments, today's great book debate will never be solved and will be swept aside to the sands of time. But whether you think it's good or bad to cut books in half in order to make them portable, doing this will almost definitely get you weird looks.