diff --git a/src/classes/Chapter.ts b/src/classes/Chapter.ts
index c4c2cb8..bfa4116 100644
--- a/src/classes/Chapter.ts
+++ b/src/classes/Chapter.ts
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ export default class Chapter {
         await this.populateText();
     }
 
+    // deletes our #document if we want to clean up memory and not use a shitton
+    freeDocument() {
+        //completely sane behaviour
+        this.#document = undefined as unknown as HTMLDocument;
+    }
+
     populateMetadata() {
         this.#name = this.#document.querySelector("h3.title")?.innerText
             .replace(
diff --git a/src/classes/Work.ts b/src/classes/Work.ts
index 2049ae6..6cfdc7c 100644
--- a/src/classes/Work.ts
+++ b/src/classes/Work.ts
@@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ export default class Work {
         await this.populateChapters();
     }
 
+    // deletes our #document if we want to clean up memory and not use a shitton
+    freeDocument() {
+        //completely sane behaviour
+        this.#document = undefined as unknown as HTMLDocument;
+    }
+
     populateMetadata() {
         this.name = (this.#document.querySelector("h2.title") as Element)
             .innerText.trim();