Welcome to my life - at work.
Yesterday I brought in RIFTS novels for Jeremy to borrow (since he's cool like that and he has an interest in such things) and I said "Please don't turn the edges of the [paperback] books into curls like elf shoes." I think there was disbelief on both our parts. He didn't believe how anal I was, and I thought he was joking with the way he reads. Which based on his example posturing is one handed, upside down, ninja reading. But it doesn't stop there, there is spine breaking, cover curling, power spread grip oh my god get your own type shiz.
Have you seen the books that you get second hand that looks like they were owned by Emperor Nero and ritually abused by lions and strong men/praetorians? A demonstration by Jeremy made the book pop and I suddenly feared for my books safety.
I ended up letting him have the book and consoling myself with an order off of Palladium website.
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