It might be also that I realized that when I touched and turned pages from the side, there's always yellowing or fraying, so I hold and turn pages from the top or bottom.

I feel you, I think I'm just weirdly worried about cracking the spine, and so I never have. I'm reading Count of Monte Cristo now and am almost done, paperback, and even at page 1000, no crack.

That's not like an elitist thing, that's like, I'm just very opposed to cracking a spine thing

I am very anal with books. I want to leave them in the same condition I received them for the next person.

I just dont fold back the pages? I read the book at like a 75 degree angle.

I think it's just muscle memory because it's how I am, but I can go from left side lighting, to right side lighting without having to think about it.

I know I might be crazy but I hate cracked spines or any indication that someone came to this story before me.

Marginalia breaks my heart and I can't read the book, because someone is telling me how to read it