Quote Originally Posted by rubah View Post
Just because something isn't a big investment doesn't mean you shouldn't treat it well. Maybe you'd maltreat a low-end camera, Miriel, but I'd probably try to at least take a little care of it, because then it could go to someone else. You're supporting local economy, yes, but you're also filling landfills and denying just a little more the opportunity to read the people who can't afford to buy new books.
have you actually found a book that was rendered unreadable or, christ, even less readable, by dog-earring? Because I haven't, and I doubt I ever will. maltreatment of a camera can result in it becoming unusable. making a small, temporary, triangular fold at the top of the page, affecting at most 5% of the page, is not analogous.


the old dog ears will still have a small fold in them (or worse, break off entirely)!
no.