Are you a dog earer? Er, what’s that you say? OK, let me come again – are you someone who dog ears your books? You know, you fold the corner of the page down to indicate that’s the point at which you’ve stopped.
If you are, DON’T do that to my books if I should lend you any, ‘cos I hate my books being dog earred. I just can’t stand unnecessary creases on pages and whenever I see a page being dog earred, I have this compulsion, need, to undo the fold. It’s like some obsessive compulsive disorder. I just can’t stand it. I think the folds spoil the look of the book.
Being a book lover, I have a certain respect and reverence for books. I believe they, like humans, should be treated well. It annoys me when I see library books, which are public property, being abused and mishandled. People who treat books like that are inconsiderate as they are destroying information and knowledge that can be passed on to someone else.
Anyway, this rant came about because the book I borrowed from the library, Anthony Bourdain’s The Nasty Bits, had many pages that were dog-earred and it just irked me!!! The book, by the way, is great! I love Bourdain’s brashness in his collection of essays. Am half-way through and can’t wait to get till the end of it.