gothgirl420666 comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AndHisHorse 04 August 2013 11:23:13PM 9 points [-]

While I respect your right to do so, I find such a concept aesthetically horrifying.

Comment author: gothgirl420666 05 August 2013 04:23:43AM 5 points [-]

I never understood that... I remember when I was in elementary school there was a sign in the library that said something like "Don't dog-ear your books... you wouldn't like it if someone folded your ear over, so don't do it to your book." What?

Comment author: cwillu 05 August 2013 07:37:05PM 1 point [-]

It's a permanent mark that easily leads to tearing.

Comment author: Wes_W 05 August 2013 04:46:50AM 1 point [-]

With library books, I think the concern is more about wear-and-tear on shared property. Some of us leakily generalize this to "folding page corners is bad", even for non-shared books. When it's your own book, you can do whatever you want.

Personally I find folded page corners less effective than bookmarks for quickly finding my place, especially if I've folded many other page corners, which makes the currently-folded one less visually obvious. But perhaps I'd learn to be better at that if I used it regularly.

Comment author: MixedNuts 05 August 2013 02:00:30PM 0 points [-]

you wouldn't like it if someone folded your ear over

That's not particularly uncomfortable.

Comment author: khafra 05 August 2013 07:26:45PM 18 points [-]

You're suffering from the typical ear fallacy. Some people have much stiffer cartilage, or something; I don't find it uncomfortable, but I've met people who're caused actual pain by it.