# How terrible is it to "dog ear" library books?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-terrible-is-it-to-dog-ear-library-books/378004>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 26, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-terrible-is-it-to-dog-ear-library-books/378004 "2006-10-26T17:36:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-terrible-is-it-to-dog-ear-library-books/378004/61 "2006-10-28T18:53:16Z")

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As unpleasant as marring pages is, yesterday I saw a guy who was discussing two pages of a book _bend over the rest_ so that everything he was talking about would be on the outside, and the spine cruelly mutilated. I literally cringed – and I do mean literally. I kept pleading under my breath “_stop doing that, please stop it_”.

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