It turns out you can do more with a printed book than read it (ebooks eat your heart out). My Modern Net (@mymodernmet) features Brian Dettmer who uses knives, tweezers, and surgical tools to carve one page at a time and create stunning works of art. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. A totally different approach to editing a book!