This quirk didn't escape the notice of people who worked in the hotel, either.
While at their hotel, Fadiman noticed that her brother, Kim, had taken to leaving his book facedown on the nightstand to hold his place. The essay starts with Fadiman recounting a family trip to Europe. That's why Anne Fadiman's essay, "Never Do That To A Book," from her 1998 release Ex Libris: Confessions Of A Common Reader, will be familiar to anyone who has ever called themselves a book person. Do you dog-ear or use a bookmark? Do you underline and highlight, or stick with removable sticky notes? Do you crack the spine? Do you?! It's all argued for or against in a myriad of ways. But one of the biggest ways that all bibliophiles disagree, often to the point of heated and impassioned debates, is about the ways readers physically treat their books. In fact, there's a long list of things book-lovers can't stop fighting about: Whether to organize libraries by author or genre, whether its OK to read the movie tie-in edition of a book, and how much reading is, in fact, enough reading.
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