As a fellow heretical dog-ear lover, let me tell you about my dog ear ritual upon acquiring a new book with content I wish to frequent...
First I explore the table of contents and skim a little bit, noting how the content is broken up into sections and subsections. Usually I determine that two “levels” will be good, so I draw my fingernail across the side of the closed book near the top corner to create two indented lines across all the pages in the book. These serve to indicate the location where the dog ear fold should come to.
Be careful when making the lines! If they are too low you may cover up the page numbers 0___0. I like going about 5 and 10 mm.
Then I grab all the pages of the table of contents and dog ear them together. This causes each successive pages dog ear to be just a little bit smaller than the last making them easier to flip through. I pull each page apart and press the folds flat individually. I like to have the table of contents down lower than the two indicator lines making the table of contents very obvious.
Next I flip through the book to the start of each chapter, folding down the corner of the right-hand page (even if the chapter starts on the left-hand page. I’m still settling the technique, but folding to the smaller line creates a more noticeable gap because of how the dog ear folds mesh into one another, so I think it is preferable for chapters to be the smallest dog ears.
Then I start with the chapters I’m most interested in, or, if I have time to lose myself in the enjoyment of knolling, I will go through the book from start to finish folding down the right hand page to the second line for each of the sections. I find this page flipping also gives me a nice preview of the contents of the book.
Finally I will repeat the process for folding the table of contents on the index pages. If there is a glossary I will do the same for it at a level in between the subsection level and the index level.
The top corner of the book is now a completed pack of dog ears. The bottom section is left for dog ears for contents of interest. Unlike the chapter and section ears, I place these on the right or left page to indicate which one is of interest. I have not yet encountered a worthwhile page on both sides of a single sheet of paper. I am not sure what I would do if I did.
Haha. I hope if you read all of this it either amused you or inspired you to become a dog earing weirdo such as myself.
As a fellow heretical dog-ear lover, let me tell you about my dog ear ritual upon acquiring a new book with content I wish to frequent...
First I explore the table of contents and skim a little bit, noting how the content is broken up into sections and subsections. Usually I determine that two “levels” will be good, so I draw my fingernail across the side of the closed book near the top corner to create two indented lines across all the pages in the book. These serve to indicate the location where the dog ear fold should come to.
Be careful when making the lines! If they are too low you may cover up the page numbers 0___0. I like going about 5 and 10 mm.
Then I grab all the pages of the table of contents and dog ear them together. This causes each successive pages dog ear to be just a little bit smaller than the last making them easier to flip through. I pull each page apart and press the folds flat individually. I like to have the table of contents down lower than the two indicator lines making the table of contents very obvious.
Next I flip through the book to the start of each chapter, folding down the corner of the right-hand page (even if the chapter starts on the left-hand page. I’m still settling the technique, but folding to the smaller line creates a more noticeable gap because of how the dog ear folds mesh into one another, so I think it is preferable for chapters to be the smallest dog ears.
Then I start with the chapters I’m most interested in, or, if I have time to lose myself in the enjoyment of knolling, I will go through the book from start to finish folding down the right hand page to the second line for each of the sections. I find this page flipping also gives me a nice preview of the contents of the book.
Finally I will repeat the process for folding the table of contents on the index pages. If there is a glossary I will do the same for it at a level in between the subsection level and the index level.
The top corner of the book is now a completed pack of dog ears. The bottom section is left for dog ears for contents of interest. Unlike the chapter and section ears, I place these on the right or left page to indicate which one is of interest. I have not yet encountered a worthwhile page on both sides of a single sheet of paper. I am not sure what I would do if I did.
Haha. I hope if you read all of this it either amused you or inspired you to become a dog earing weirdo such as myself.