When you hear someone talking about a dog-eared copy, as of a favorite book, it usually is accompanied by the words battered, worn, well-thumbed, shabby or time-worn. Usually the condition is a result ...

Some find folding down the corners akin to literary vandalism. For Jane Howard, to revisit those paper scars is to be haunted by – and reminded of – a past self ‘I’ve been rereading lots of books ...

There are two types of people in this world: people who use bookmarks and people who dog-ear books. The feud between bookmarkers and dog-earers is centuries old, and the blood runs pretty deep. And as ...