I am cross

Oh dear, I am a page folder, but can’t remember the last time I borrowed a book. I remember when I used a library in a small village there was a reader who drew a little circle round the number on page 37 on each book she had read to avoid borrowing them again! I didn’t fold the pages in library books, I used a bookmark.

I would be annoyed too. I also dislike notes in books to indicate other books read etc. One book I read, written by an American , had every shortened verb underlined. For example, ' she knit, she cook. Very annoying

Turning the corners of book pages is a total sacrilege! Just no!

I also feel very annoyed when a library book has bits underlined or comments in the margin.

I think it is different if the book is your own though I still don't like creases and so on. But so wrong to do to someone else's and don;t get me started on the library books

I do turn down page corners, if I’ve no bookmark to hand. And my cookery books are a sticky mess, with scribbled notes about changes I’ve made, etc.

But I’m very careful not to mark books that don’t belong to me.

I am glad it is not just me. I would be furious with food stains so I definitely won't lend any cookery books!

I only lend books to immediate family, because of the non-return/damage done to books lent more widely.

With recipes I am quite happy to scan and email or print recipes from my cookery books. The same with poetry.

Nope not unreasonable at all. I lent my Nigella Lawson recipe book to a friend because she was hosting a dinner party for friends. When the book came back it had food stains and scribbles down the ingredients, where she'd ticked off what she'd got. It was a mess. I'll never lend a book to her again!

You could buy her a bookmark as a 'thank you gift' if she passes any books on to you

Oh I agree completely!

Iam inclined to agree- I also do not like people scribbling in books or underlining sentences. I care for any book I read be it hardcover or whatever.

I just realised I probably should have posted this in the am I being unreasonable section.