No! NOOO! As cool as this may look, I just cannot do this! I love my books too much. I would kill me to do this to a book, even if I owned several redundant copies of a book that I absolutely despised. Wouldn't someone enjoy reading them? I even have hardback books on my shelf that I bought on super discount at B&N just to read once, not particularly enjoy, and they just sit there taking up space and mocking me - MOCKING ME - when I think about rearranging the living room (or *shudder* MOVING *cringe* to a new house). Could I do this to one of them? Not a chance! These books may wind up at goodwill, but I couldn't bring myself to chop one up even if that would allow me to make something cool and useful.

Say I actually went through with this, probably under deep sedation, then what would I have? I'd either have a cool gadget organizer based on some really cool book that I really love, and every time I look at it I would cry a little inside knowing that I had destroyed a print copy of one of my most beloved books just to have a "cool gadget organizer" that advertises my love for this particular book. Or, I'd have a cool gadget organizer that is PERMENANTLY MARRED by being wrapped in the cover of some hated and despised piece of garbage and run the risk that someone who actually enjoys that drivel will confuse me for a fan of that book.

The only way I can see myself going through with this would be to find a book that I so thoroughly DESPISE that I would want to carry around with me for the rest of my life a perpetual reminder of the eternal spite and loathing that I have for that author and his or her lump of inestimable drivel. Just so that if a FAN of that author, or that book, should show up to question me on a long air flight from Alaska to New York I could be merciless and unceasing in my mockery. See, look, I hate this book so much that I TORE IT UP AND MADE A TROPHY OF ITS SKIN!

Then, in the tears of the vanquished, I would see my own reflection and despair for the irreperable harm that I've caused to not only another book - but to a fellow book lover.

No, Melanie Pinola, I cannot do this. Not this. This goes too far.