My original notion was, - A) If there's a movement and a destination (as in the case of thumbing a book to reach a certain page), it should be *to*: *Class, open your books **to** page 13!* - B) If there's none, then *at*: *There on the counter rested my cookbook, open **at** page 13.* *The tome fell open right **at** the middle page.* Then I asked around and rummaged in corpora and found out that my reasoning was flawed. [IMO, there's either something wrong with logic or with language—or both. Somebody fix the whole mess please.] In fact, when it comes to opening or being open, the preposition is almost always ***to*** in AmE, whereas BrE is probably mixed, and (sometimes?) there is even a strong preference for ***at*** (especially in cases like B above). I'll close with some of the search results that I mentioned, and leave the rest to others to hash out. Speakers of other dialects are more than welcome to chip in as well! 1. *shut the book for a moment, then open it back up **to** page one and begin again* – [COCA](https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/) 2. *Students, if you could please open your math books **to** page two* – COCA 3. *Open your grammar **at** page fourteen* – [BNC](https://www.english-corpora.org/bnc/) 4. *every time I took up the book it opened **at** page 92, although I have never deliberately read that page* – BNC 5. *I happened to open the Rome Treaty **at** page 89 of the English text* – [Hansard Corpus](http://www.hansard-corpus.org/)