Dog-Ear or Bookmark?

[Caroline]

I always dog-ear my books. Some say this is abuse. I say it's a display of my affection. Do you dog-ear your books or use a bookmark? Do you have any special bookmarks?

[hadia]

dog earring is easier and more convenient. Makes the book feel broken into.

[Elizabeth Papathakos]

I normally dog ear, but occsionally will use a scrap of paper or a receipt as a bookmark.

I agree that dogearing is a sign of affection. Everty time i see a page that has been torn, folded, spilt upon, or written on i remember the first time I read that book and what I though about it.

[Stephanie Steadfast]

It depends on the book, some books I'll dog ear and some I'll use bookmarks.
All of bookmarks are like shreds of paper.

[Genevieve]

I try to never dog-ear my books. I use 'book marks'... which are usually in the form of scraps of paper, post-its, or a receipt. I generally use post-it's b/c I stick it to the page I'm on. But the main reason why I don't dog-ear books is because it tends to stay slightly bent. I used to dog-ear when I was younger but I noticed that the books I read over and over started having a lot of bent corners. So I switched to bookmarks. I don't use fancy bookmarks though... They always get lost.

[Cassidy]

i grew up dog earing my books, but with hardbacks and those borrowed from friends and libraries, i use a bookmark. i tend to use whatever scraps i can find for bookmarks, but i once had a roommate who would write down every book she had read whilst using that bookmark until there was no more space on it, in which case she started over.

[Ananka Fishbein]

WHAT!? You dog-ear you books? How could you! I try to use a bookmark, but usually I end up losing it, so I just remember which page I'm up to.

[Whatsername]

My newest arguement is dog earing helps save the environment. Why waste paper or other resources on bookmarks when you can just fold a little corner of a page?

[Dane]

I use a bookmark but I used to dog-ear. I just started using the bookmark because it's special to me. My dean gave it after I became one of the Top 5 students in my 8th grade class last year. Awesomeness. Haha.

[JimmyGizmo]

I use a bookmark. Just the crummy ones that I get anytime I buy something from Chapters. As far as I'm concerned, dog earing is blasphemy. However when I buy a book with a jacket, the first thing I do is discard the jacket so ... I dunno maybe I'm a bit of a hypocrite.

[Colin Matthew]

When I see people on the bus dog-ear their pages I cry a little bit on the inside. I use a book mark. Traditionally it's the receipt from the bookstore where I bought the book. However, I have been known to use any bills that were nearby as a book mark forcing me to not pay that particular bill until I was done with the book (sorry again T-Mobile!)

[Ryan]

Yeah, using the receipt as the bookmark. I do that too.

[tiffany;;]

Oh, bookmark definitely! Dog earing may be enviromentally friendly, but how abusive it is to the little book. But I am very strange, all of my books seem to have personalities...