Question Re: Linda McCartney book - to cut or not to cut?

Hello, all! Since I greatly value the opinions of those in this forum, I was curious about everyone's opinion on this.

I just bought a signed Linda McCartney signed cookbook. I am sending along a picture of the signed book page here. I have a binder of pages with a collection of Beatles-related autographs and my first instinct is to cut this page out of the book to add to my binder. It could cut nicely to just about 8 x 10 size, which would include all the text on this page. The dustcover of the book is also not in mint condition.

My questions is, what do folks prefer in a case like this? Keeping the book in tact? Or cutting the autograph out to put in with the rest of a collection of photos and printed materials?

Thanks for your opinions!

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Green 8 hours ago

That is correct. Thank you, Steve!

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Permalink Reply by JK 8 hours ago

Yes, I understood that, but he'd be left with what is clearly a book page without the book.

It seems to me that it would be the worst of both worlds. Book collectors would have no interest and cut/autograph collectors would probably see it as impaired because the signature and inscription can't be neatly cut away from the printed text.