Finger licking page turners, are you going to rethink your habit?

[Curdsandwhey]

It's such a horrible thing, I hate it when people do this.

Considering that you're supposed to avoid touching your face, putting your fingers in your mouth is even worse. It's unhygeinic even in normal times so why would you do it now?

Customers still licking their fingers to get their bank card/loyalty card out at the checkout. Fucking disgusting

Revolting

Why does anyone ever do this? I stopped loaning books to friends because of it.

Fortunately I mainly use an ereader, but have never done this, particularly after seeing some of the dubious substances bogies on library books. [boak]

Shop staff sometimes lick their fingers to open plastic bags. Ever since they been made to wear gloves at work I've noticed they've all stopped doing it! Maybe they should continue to wear gloves from now on if it stops them from doing it. It's actually quite a relief.

Finger licking page turners

They go into the same category as dog earing a book.

Sacrilegious

I only listen to audio books. Much cleaner

We need to hear from the people who actually do it though. Are they going to change their ways?

Will anyone admit it though?

My friend was shocked when I said no more book lending.

People still do this? Even before corona virus?
It makes me die on the inside

Little me too!

Oh and finger licking friend ALSO dog ears pages on her own books. She didn’t do that with mine.

Yes, people still do it all the time. It's so disgusting.

Nope. I’ll carry on. I’m going to be the only sane person left when this is over.

Going but why do it all? I’m not worried about the virus, but it’s just gross.

My colleague does this, we have hundreds of invoices come through each week and she licks every time she goes through them, imagine how many people have touched them before her, it turned my stomach even before all this and before we finished the other week I ordered some of those finger covers to use in the office and offered her some suggesting it may be an idea to use these at the moment....unsurprisingly she looked at me like I had gone nuts

Always thought it was a revolting habit 🤮

I’ve never really understood it either. I manage to turn pages without needing to. I know that people who have to count through lots of piece of paper v quickly sometimes have those wet pad and thimble things but I most people aren’t doing that kind of job (certainly not these days)

This makes me think of the name of the rose.

Ok so I'm going to be the first to admit I do it - sorry!

I'm not an every page finger licker, it's only if I've already tried but failed because the pages are stuck together.

In my defence, I only do it with my own books that no one else would ever come into contact with, which is probs my 99% of the books I come into contact with - I wouldn't do it with a library book or something that didn't belong to me.

It seems to happen more with magazines than books though.