B is for Bending Corners
Bending Corners: All of you are going to think I'm crazy after this post but I'm not. Anyway, I am a firm believer in using a bookmark for keeping the page in your book. I would like to know what do you do to keep the page? I just have a firm opinion that you shouldn't bend the corner of a book. Bending the corner of a book wears it down and causes the next reader a less enjoyable reading experience. I mean bending the corner hurts the book!! And I know what your thinking, Books are inanimate objects they will not feel anything! but really they will. So, the next time that you go to a bookstore or even have a spare piece of paper, get a bookmark!
Thank you
1. books ARE NOT alive, and do not have "feelings" or can be "hurt".
ReplyDelete2. Books are going to get old and worn out. thats life.
3. i cant think of a three.
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I don't bend books, either. I even take off dust jackets when I read hardcovers so they aren't damaged.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the A-Z Challenge.
I take dust jackets off too :)
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, I used to be a bend the pager, and then I started getting all these pretty books and well I just stopped. Proud? ;)
Crystal- Yes totally proud!!
ReplyDeleteI try not to bend the corners of my books but sometimes I have to.
ReplyDeleteFor the most part I don't bend corners. Something I learned as a child I guess. I'll use any scrap before I bend a page.
ReplyDeleteI am so with you!!! No one should be damaging such a precious thing as that! I find that post-its work well for me and that's because normally they are all around me, I read on my breaks, before work and after work and I have post-its at my desk at all times!!!
ReplyDeleteTotally bend the pages...sorry.
ReplyDeleteBending the corners is book blasphemy and it bothers this boy. I'm like Alex: I carefully set the cover aside and use a book mark. I get all sorts of bookmarks in the mail from charitable organizations, but I usually end up using old receipts or airline boarding passes work nicely. I lke to keep my books in pristine condition if I can.
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Ya I rarely use bookmarks but I NEVER BEND CORNERS!
ReplyDeleteI never do that. It bugs me. That's what bookmarks are for. I have used envelopes, Kleenex (not used!), those subscription cards that fall out of magazines, postcards, receipts and the power cord for my iPod as bookmarks. I don't loan books because I hate getting them back with dog-eared pages!
ReplyDeleteLOL I am so guilty of bending corners! :(
ReplyDeleteI'm sooo anal, can't stand a bent page :( but sad thing about me I write in my books and then I get so anal and go and purchase a new one because I hate the fact of writing in my books lol. Also I give the books a complete physical exam before I buy it--- can't stand bent pages or even a blemish on my cover.
ReplyDeleteI used to get told off as a child for bending book corners, now I have a wee bit more respect for the books. A great blog for "B" Good luck with the rest of the challenge
ReplyDeleteYvonne.