I hate it when people use “dog ears”! Why do you people have to fold the corner?! Why can’t you use a bookmark?!
This is among one of my deepest pet-peeves…for it speaks not only to the laziness of the reader, but also to their carelessness towards undamaged property…how difficult is it truly to find even a small piece of paper to mark one’s place?
Oh my word, YES!
Personally, I also hate it when people break the spine of a pristine book. I always go to the effort not to break the spine of a book so as to keep it in as pristine a condition as possible. Paperbacks don’t last very long, anyway: there’s no need to hasten its disintegration along.
Anytime I accidentally break the spine, I feel a deep sense of sadness and regret.
This reminds me of a time when I let a friend borrow a comic book and when I got it back, THE COVER WAS TOTALLY DETACHED!!!
He then claimed that it wasn’t his fault and that I tried to frame him. Yeah, I would totally tear the cover off my own comic.