Bookmarks vs page folding

[sojourner]

That picture's cropped - I'm actually hanging from one of the top branches - punished by both anally retentive readers and tree spirits

 

[spanglechick]

i too like a book to show the signs of having been read.

I don't have a "leaving things for best" mentality - do you think it's related? Why should things look perfect? My best loved books have myriad creases along the spine from being left open covers-up. Closed, they are wedge shaped. That's how i mark my page (if i'm travelling i remember the number) - i don't fold pages cos it's more effort.

If i'm borrowing a book i am very careful, but it takes some of the wanton joy out of reading, for me.

 

[geminisnake]

There can be no excuse and no place for page-folding in a civilised society.

Indeed. I have made a note of the page turners and will never lend them any of my books

I also dislike getting library books that stink of smoke How smoky must a house be for a library book to stink??

 

[chilango]

People who fold pages most likely break the spine as well. With cheaply produced books this means the pages fall out.

...besides if i´ve tracked down an american 1st edition on lovely acid free paper no one is gonna fold any pages.

...and hardbacks? Do you take the dustjackets off before reading to save damaging them?

 

[spanglechick]

People who fold pages most likely break the spine as well. With cheaply produced books this means the pages fall out.

...besides if i´ve tracked down an american 1st edition on lovely acid free paper no one is gonna fold any pages.

...and hardbacks? Do you take the dustjackets off before reading to save damaging them?

were you one of those weird kids who kept their toys in the box?

 

[chilango]

What toys? I only had a box...

 

[wiskey]

the way i see it is this - i wouldnt like my fingers broken just so someone couild remember they'd met me so i wouldnt turn a books corners.

its just unfriendly.

 

[Iam]

Still using the business card.

 

[treefrog]

page-folder, always have been. I sometimes use a bookmark if there's something handy or the dustcover on a hardback but all my paperbacks have lovingly-creased pages...

 

[MysteryGuest]

I looooathhhe and despiiizzzzzzze page folders.


And yet, I got a copy of Sylvia Smith's 'Misadventures' from the charity shop a few weeks back, and the fold on page 35/36 seemed entirely appropriate, if not strangely amusing, in context. I particularly liked the way that whoever had read that far never went any further, or maybe they had gone on to finish the book in one fell swoop and not needed to fold down any other pages. Of course, they may have put that fold there precisely because of the book it was, as a little in joke. I guess that we will never know.

 

[zenie]

People who fold pages most likely break the spine as well. With cheaply produced books this means the pages fall out.

...besides if i´ve tracked down an american 1st edition on lovely acid free paper no one is gonna fold any pages.

...and hardbacks? Do you take the dustjackets off before reading to save damaging them?

I like you

 

[rich!]

There can be no excuse and no place for page-folding in a civilised society.

Actually, there can.

Whilst I agree that the temporary marking of place should always be done with a "period item" - tube ticket, bus ticket, other ephemera - when it is necessary to permanently locate the site of some point of magnificence, then the folded page-corner permits instant re-acquisition of the site without the irritation of trying to get a book stuffed with paper back onto a bookshelf.

Plus, a fold will never fall out. Anal-retentives may remove it, but the location can be detected in the worst case.

but never on someone else's book!