What Page for Book Dedication?

In My Humble Opinion
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I’ve been giving books to people for years, and was just wondering about something I always do. When I write inside the book something like “Congratulation to X, love Y”, what page should it go on?

  1. The endpapers (if so, which side? and does it make a difference if the endpapers are white vs. colored?)
  2. The title page (if so, which one?)

I have a book that has:
a) Colored endpaper
b) Page with title and author, blank on back.
c) Another page with title and author, and a little graphic, ISBN info on back.
d) Yet ANOTHER page with title and author and a little graphic, blank on back.

What if the title page spans two facing pages?

p.s. I am NOT the author of the book. Would it make a difference if I were the author? Once I heard someone (who was an author, but was dedicating a DIFFERENT author’s book to someone) say that the proper place was to put the dedication at the END (since he wasn’t the author of that particular book).

I know this sounds like a Seinfeld question, but I’ve been wondering and though I might as well ask!!!

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Wherever you want to put it.

There’s an official location, but the law is rarely enforced and usually the judge will let you off with under ten years for a first-time offense.