I’m a collage artist.  Love anything from the postwar era.  All my vintage texts have whole sections torn out, some are gutted. Going to hell for such ruination. And that’s okay. 

The debate over whether or not to ruin books dates from Gutenberg (likely).

Author Susan Orlean authored The Library Book. Orleans confronted her adoration of the printed page by attempting to burn a book. “A book feels like a thing alive in this moment...they take on a kind of human vitality.”

Sheesh, I've been killing books for decades with no apparent karmic cost.