Chop Up Your Books
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 going to tire out your hands to hold up an 850-page book for the time it takes to read an 850-page book.
- ▪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 Lon
- ▪I’m not a Western guy, but it’s clear that this pulitzer-winner earned it.
- ▪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.
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| Original publisher | Mattkirkland |
| Canonical URL | https://attainablefelicity.mattkirkland.com/20260915/cut-up-your-books.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:45:31 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-15T19:41:52.760Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-15T19:41:52.760Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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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.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Mattkirkland.
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