I never understood that… I remember when I was in elementary school there was a sign in the library that said something like “Don’t dog-ear your books… you wouldn’t like it if someone folded your ear over, so don’t do it to your book.” What?
You’re suffering from the typical ear fallacy. Some people have much stiffer cartilage, or something; I don’t find it uncomfortable, but I’ve met people who’re caused actual pain by it.
With library books, I think the concern is more about wear-and-tear on shared property. Some of us leakily generalize this to “folding page corners is bad”, even for non-shared books. When it’s your own book, you can do whatever you want.
Personally I find folded page corners less effective than bookmarks for quickly finding my place, especially if I’ve folded many other page corners, which makes the currently-folded one less visually obvious. But perhaps I’d learn to be better at that if I used it regularly.
While I respect your right to do so, I find such a concept aesthetically horrifying.
I never understood that… I remember when I was in elementary school there was a sign in the library that said something like “Don’t dog-ear your books… you wouldn’t like it if someone folded your ear over, so don’t do it to your book.” What?
That’s not particularly uncomfortable.
You’re suffering from the typical ear fallacy. Some people have much stiffer cartilage, or something; I don’t find it uncomfortable, but I’ve met people who’re caused actual pain by it.
With library books, I think the concern is more about wear-and-tear on shared property. Some of us leakily generalize this to “folding page corners is bad”, even for non-shared books. When it’s your own book, you can do whatever you want.
Personally I find folded page corners less effective than bookmarks for quickly finding my place, especially if I’ve folded many other page corners, which makes the currently-folded one less visually obvious. But perhaps I’d learn to be better at that if I used it regularly.
It’s a permanent mark that easily leads to tearing.