They dog-ear pages with the impulsiveness of clicking a mouse, not realizing that their actions have permanent consequences.
Especially in evangelical churches, worshipers often bring their own Bibles to church, so they can write marginalia, dog-ear pages, and tuck in things of special interest, religious or otherwise.
A commenter, yale09, pointed me to Anne Fadiman's essay "Never Do That to a Book," which divides readers into "carnal" and "courtly" lovers: "Carnal lovers" will mark and dog-ear pages, rip covers or whole chapters etc while "courtly lovers," like yourself, revere their books and leave them untouched.
I don't dog-ear pages, and I try to avoid bending a book's spine to the point of creasing it.
Do not dog-ear pages to keep your place, and do not use a pencil or other, larger object; it could bend the cover or pages out of shape.
Over my coffee, I dog-eared the pages of a fencing catalog.
Did he write in the books, underline passages in red, dog-ear the pages, use Post-it notes?
I travel with an iPad, but at home I like holding a book open and being able to leaf through it, highlight with a real yellow pen and dog-ear important pages.
Will a friend, colleague or acquaintance break the spine (a frequent and valid complaint of this Babbage's former flatmate), foul or dog-ear some pages, or disappear with the title, never to return?On the surface, Amazon's and Barnes & Noble's e-book loan policy seems like the ideal solution to this age-old problem.
One might dog-ear the pages, scrawl in the margin or take copious notes, but the experience of reading itself, already a shuttling process of mental oscillation from the first line on, is impossible to recapture in full for the reader of the review.
Our old set of Miller and Levine dragonfly biology textbooks had all the signs of well-loved books, ear-marked pages, ripped corners, and weakened spines.
