It’s the indicator of when the last reader ended the book – Dog-eared the page and never picked it up again. Greater insight than any Amazon review can give you.
I started reading a book today, eye-rolled at the introduction and then was completely vindicated by seeing page 1 of chapter 1 dog-eared.
Normally it’s not so quick…but it does give me pause when I see a dog-eared page halfway through a book. Should I quit? Thoughts, from you library-using readers?
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Quit, lest you not be trendy.
Any library book that I’ve checked out is to be returned in as pristine a condition as I can manage, because that’s how I prefer to treat books, and also more importantly it’s not my property.
Do you not read the first page or 2 in the library before settling on the book and deciding to take it home? 😄
That is a very interesting take on that. I’m going to have to pay more attention.
If you see a dog-eared page halfway through, I’d be less inclined to make a judgement, because I can see so many things getting in the way of finishing the book.
Dog ears on something like a shared book are idiotic. Thousands of things can be a bookmark. A receipt (not from CVS - those are massive), a sticky note, anything thin and flat. Why damage a shared book out of general laziness?
Plus if you forget to unfold your dog ear it will bother the next person who takes the book out, but if you forget and leave the bookmark in, you might intrigue the next reader. Shopping lists, boarding passes… I once found a temporary birth certificate being used as a bookmark (I pictured the mom in the hospital after giving birth just wanting to finish the book… And yes, I mailed it back to her…)
I dog ears books (only the ones that I own) on pages that had passages that really moved me.
I do this with the intention that I may want to go back and relive those passages. OR that when I pass the book on for someone else to read they will notice the dog ear and think that something on that page resonated with me and that will push them to search for a deeper meaning in the text.
This is the only thing i miss with my kindle. “Flipping” back to find clarification or details or specific words is undelightful.
Not trying to be snarky, but isn’t this what the highlight feature is for? That’s how I use it anyways. 😁
I have never used the highlight feature. I feel like it would be annoying and not be easy or reminding like a dogear. Plus all of my books come from libby and sometimes those come with parts underlined, and i dont want to do that to someone.
I’ll look into it though
You can turn highlights from others off on the Kindle, I’m guessing the same for Libby books. The highlights only show up if there’s enough of them. So if 100 people highlighted the same passage it will show up underlined on your kindle. If only you do it, it doesn’t affect the next reader to borrow that book at all.
You can also search for your highlighted passages on the kindle. It’s not an intrusive feature at all but whether you use it is up to you if you find it helpful.
Cool. I will check it out later tonight.
As someone who works in a library and has to go through every single book that comes in during my shift, and unfold Every. Single. Dog-ear. No. I can’t say that I do. I have seen books come in where half of the pages were dog-eared. It’s not a good indicator of the books contents. Only an indicator of the last person to read it. Not to mention dog-ears permanently damage the book. They can never be fixed and become prone to tearing.
If enough pages are dog-eared, our library considers them damaged and throws them out. I work in collection maintenance. Seconding the sentiment of “Stop doing that.”