So I'm going to take a trip this week and my partner was aghast that I was planning to take my copy of War and Peace with me. She said that I should split the book up. I was aghast because my mother taught me to never mutilate a book.
My partner told me this is a common service at Korean universities, so I do an internet search for "splitting big books up into little books." While I could not find a service to do this, I did happen to find @futurebird's instructables article for this very topic (with the calculus book that plagued me so many years ago).
Breaking Heavy Textbooks in to Smaller Books for Easy Carrying.
Breaking Heavy Textbooks in to Smaller Books for Easy Carrying.: Teachers and students rejoice! If you have ever resented lugging a heavy back-breaking textbook around campus when all you really needed were a few dozen pages in said book this instructable is for you. You will turn a large text book into smaller i…
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