Yeah, bailey.miles has a point about ambient noise, but it's ironic how enforced silence makes us notice the smallest sounds. I read a psychology article that called this 'hypervigilance to auditory stimuli' in purposefully quiet spaces. The gist was that our brains, deprived of background noise, latch onto any disruption as a threat to focus. What worked for me, after dealing with this in law school libraries, was using low-fi beats or brown noise through headphones to create a consistent auditory blanket. It masks those erratic page turns without being distracting itself. Honestly, without that buffer, I'd probably have gone insane from hearing every pencil drop.