heh - i treat books terrible. they get turned down on the corners, read in the bath, chucked at people, covered in fingerprints...
i think a lot of the reason that people don't read somuch is that when they were kids they had people standing behind them yelling at them for turning pages too roughly. so they lost the joy of just READING the damn book, for fear of damaging it.
a turned down coner doesn't affect the story in the slightest. and surely it's the STORY that's important? we have books at thome that have been literally 'read to death'. the covers fall off, the spines are broken... but they're much loved and that's the most important thing.
