Illustrator file so big it slows down everything

So i made a 30 page e-book in illustrator, the project file is 81MB but whenever i open it, it takes 20 minutes for it to start actually being able to work with, and slows down my computer and i cant do anything.. does anyone know how to fix this??

Put some pages in another document.
But then you'll need Acrobat to put the PDF together.

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