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- verb Present participle of
dogear .
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Examples
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Reacting to the comment you quoted from someone who said they prefer flipping through a physical book, dogearing it, marking it up, etc
The College Catalogue Goes Bye-Bye: Harvard Catches Up With Zenith At Last Tenured Radical 2009
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I've done a lot of underlining and highlighting and dogearing in this book, and have already had occasion, several occasions actually, to go burrowing back into the book to revisit a passage that had set ideas rattling about in my head.
Proust and the Squid Bruce Schauble 2008
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I've done a lot of underlining and highlighting and dogearing in this book, and have already had occasion, several occasions actually, to go burrowing back into the book to revisit a passage that had set ideas rattling about in my head.
Archive 2008-09-01 Bruce Schauble 2008
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A provocative post called "Lifehack Your Books: Dogear, Writing In Books, and Apologizing to Librarians" advocates writing in your books and dogearing the covers -- hear, hear.
Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005
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I always when I'm reading a book I really like am dogearing pages or sticking on post-its to mark great sentences or paragraphs, great because of the order of the words on the page as well as because of something perceptive or striking or fresh in the observation.
Archive 2005-09-01 Jenny Davidson 2005
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I always when I'm reading a book I really like am dogearing pages or sticking on post-its to mark great sentences or paragraphs, great because of the order of the words on the page as well as because of something perceptive or striking or fresh in the observation.
Just finished reading Jenny Davidson 2005
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Challenge -- doing the exercises, staying hydrated, dogearing pages in the Sears catalog
ZUG.com > ZUG Live Zolton Under Glass 2010
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Book bumpers are little plastic 'corners' to stick on a book cover to keep the corners from dogearing from use. (not that useful a thing, in my opinion.)
D*I*Y Planner - Comments ThomasHofstra 2010
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I make notes, underline passages, without dogearing pages, cracking binding, or (gulp!) killing trees.
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People who think that books are objects shudder at the thought of writing in them, dogearing page corners, etc.
Emergent Chaos 2009
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