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A dog ear is a folded down corner of a book page. The name refers to the ears of many breeds of domestic dog flapping over. [1] A dog ear can serve as a bookmark. Dog-earing is also commonly used to mark a section or phrase in a book that one finds to be important or of personal meaning. Other names for this practice include page folding and ...
00:00 • Introduction - Unfolding the Mystery: What Does "Dog-ear a Page" Mean?00:33 • Origins of the Phrase00:59 • Modern Usage and Examples01:24 • Dog-ear i...
- The Book as Object
- The History of The Dog-Ear
- The Birth of A Taboo
Professor Gadd specialises in the history of the book — as an object. The book, he argues, is an unusual artefact, and an intimate one. We hold it, we take it to bed with us, we travel with it. We care for it, display it, leave fingerprints on it, spill coffee on it. In fact, Professor Gadd thinks that the way we hold, value, interact with and use ...
The ahistorical presumption is that the modern taboo against dog-earing is about the literal value of a book, the cost of production and ownership. Not so. When books were rarer, there is plenty of evidence that "turning down a leaf" was a common practice and, as Professor Gadd puts it, "did not have anything like the cultural anxiety or taboo it h...
"Books are useful objects, amongst the most useful object we have, and yet there seems to be a very strong cultural desire to make that use as invisible as possible," Professor Gadd says. So when did dog-earing move from the unremarkable sign of an active reader, to the morally dubious habit of a sloppy book holder? It all shifted in the 18th centu...
Why Is It Called A Dog-Eared Page?A "dog-eared page" refers to a folded corner of a page in a book, used to mark a specific place or section. The term "dog-e...
Apr 23, 2021 · Easy to see why this type of bookmark is called a dog earImage: CIA via Twitter. In private circles, books borrowed and returned in a damaged condition can jeopardize the continuation of ...
Unlocking the Mystery: Decoding 'Dog-ear a Page' in English • Join us as we delve into the fascinating origins and meaning behind the commonly used English p...
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Apr 10, 2012 · I try to un-dog ear the corners by folding them back, but I might be exacerbating the problem by adding additional moisture from my fingers to the corners. When I was a child, a librarian taught me to turn pages from the upper right hand corner. Perhaps this is because books tend to be dog eared most from the lower right hand corner.
