What Kind of Bookmark do You Use?

[Mr. Pedantic]

For me its a $50 bill and a smaller book.

[RaoulDuke]

I still use a rectangular piece of cardboard that I cut off a box of Yorkshire Tea about three years ago. It's covered in little snippets of text, phrases I like or words that I wanted to look up.

[The Comedian]

My daughter's Social Security Card, a piece of bailing twine, and a used Kleenex all spring to mind.

[Veho]

My pillow.

I like the sound of yours RaoulDuke.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

I have used leaves and a cracker.


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[Maximilianus]

I have used CD booklets, CDs by themselves, twigs, fliers and paper strips. Just to name a few.

[soundofmusic]

Store coupons that expired before I finished the book and an angry letter to a lover that I thought I had torn up; but returned to the library (She sent it for me...we had made up by then:troll:

[Maximilianus]

Store coupons that expired before I finished the book and an angry letter to a lover that I thought I had torn up; but returned to the library (She sent it for me...we had made up by then:troll:
Oh dear... the past always has a way to haunt us, eh? http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/negative.gif

[kiki1982]

Oh, I've done receipts, napkins, now also an angry letter after an embarrassing argument with my hubby, public transport tickets (they are very good!), theatre programms (now doing The Enchanted April by an amateur company in Belgium), tickets of bottles, beer mats (althought they are bit thick), leaves

I think that's about it... :bigear:

[Delta40]

a tampon!

[papayahed]

a used Kleenex


Me too.

[Lokasenna]

I've used a table knife before now. Oh, and a biscuit. Not at the same time of course, that would be silly.

Bits of envelope, business cards and corners torn off old bits of work tend to be the usual.

[Scheherazade]

I so want to be the "cool" person with the hand-made leather bookmark or something crafty dangling from her books and I have been given such gifts but I use them for a book or two and then forget to carry them around.

I am the person with no bookmarks, who, at times, folds the page corners but mostly who ends up trying to remember the page numbers.

[Maximilianus]

I am the person with no bookmarks, who, at times, folds the page corners but mostly who ends up trying to remember the page numbers.
At times I would pick a little piece of paper, write down on it the page numbers I need to recall, and then put the piece in some place inside the book, with a corner of it showing up, so as to remember it is there... senseless method? :p

[Propter W.]

I use playing cards (I have an incomplete deck of cards). But I usually remember where I left off.

[kiki1982]

my hubby just said, 'a piece of broken glass of a window' and 'the quilt of a bed'.

[BibliophileTRJ]

a tampon!

Oh, the horror!! :yikes:

[Helga]

I use postcards and poems I have printed out, I also use a napkin I got at a cafe that says' Sometimes coffee will save the day and a napkin your face' ...

I definetly don't like the 'cool' leather book bands, it seems kinda pretentious

[papayahed]

Boarding Passes

[hazelk]

Super market checkout tape.

[JuniperWoolf]

Piece of cooked spaghetti (I've been rightly accused of not taking proper care of books).

[katelbach]

I am the person with no bookmarks, who, at times, folds the page corners but mostly who ends up trying to remember the page numbers.

I'm telling.

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I'm currently using one of the 2 little strips you pull off the back of a plaster (band aid).

[stephofthenight]

whatever i can find..paper, tape, hair, ribbon, pens, a piece of my shirt...an intentionaly broken fingernail... my phone (flip phones are great), now i generaly just take a picture of the page im on :) Hey what reader will stop short of anything and risk losing their page"?

[Maximilianus]

Hey what reader will stop short of anything and risk losing their page"?
Me of course, for lack of an intentionally broken fingernail :p I lose pages sometimes and can't remember where I put them http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I just though it may be interesting to see what kind of bookmark people use, if any. And, it could be completely mundane. I don't know.

Personally, I've always used a bookmark. I know some people just fold the corners of pages, but this just seems, I don't know, immoral.

The current bookmark I'm using is this really cool 3D one of a golden dragon on a blue background. It's fun to look at. I had a 3D one of planets, but my dog chewed it up. I'm also a habitual loser of bookmarks, but I'm really going to try and keep this one.

[1n50mn14]

I just remember what page I was on, or in general, the last thing I remember reading. I flip through the book until I find it. I often end up re-reading pages and paragraphs this way, and getting things out of them I may not have the first time around.

My cell phone is often used as a bookmark ;)

[MystyrMystyry]

I have a few that have ended up in the bookmark drawer for safe keeping

One is this supple leather/suede number with gold leaf depiction of an old wooden ship, and when the leaf began to flake - time to put it away

I have printed cardboard mementoes from special library and museum events, and similar from various causes and campaigns, and one that was a promotion for a rockband (figure that!)

I've got my Grandad's dark leather strap with pressings for pattern and short tassels, and a silk one (I think it may have been cut from a necktie) got from a fete, and an odd-shaped flexi-plastic job


But the question asked what was used for a bookmark, and the answer is none of the above

An envelope, colourful scraps of paper, other books interleaved, a notebook to remember the page if it proves a yawnfest, and torn strips from the glossy advertisements they shove in my letterbox when I'm not watching

Hardbacks with paperjackets must politely remove their jacket because they always seem to get damaged during the reading process, and therefore never used as bookmarks, but often feathers and rulers find their way between the pages


You can read all about it in my new illustrated book - The Big Bumper Book of Bookmarks - or you may safely choose to ignore it

[Niamh]

I use anything and everything i can get my hands on. Bus tickets, strips of paper, receipts... yet oddly enough i've a nice collection of proper bookmarks at home.

[Big Dante]

I tend to use your normal, in store bookmarks which aren't overly interesting but they beat nothing for me at least.
For Sherlock Holmes however I decided my Aragorn bookmark simply wouldn't cut it this time and printed off a picture of Robert Downey Jr as Holmes, trimmed it up and it is now sitting halfway through my Complete Sherlocks Holmes book.

[Wilde woman]

Usually a pen, since I'm constantly marking in my books. But also the books' receipts, since they're so conveniently THERE after you buy the book, and boarding passes when I'm traveling.

[OrphanPip]

I use receipts also, my mother regularly buys me bookmarks for Christmas and birthdays, but they always seem to disappear into the abyss.

[misterreplicant]

These "childish" book marks... I have 3 of them:
-"Science Rocks!" and on the back it has difference jobs (like: Entomologist - studies insects)
-A Spanish book mark with Spanish words on the front and their meanings on the back. My mom got it from my sister's book fair at school, since I study Spanish at my high school.
-"One Ball One World", a soccer book mark with soccer facts on the back (like: Brazil has won 5 world cups.)

And now, I am trying to get some more sophisticated book marks, like the one I bought a week ago. It has a map of the Old World on it, and at the bottom, "Wherever you go, go with all your heart." ~Confucius. It also has a mini-globe trinket hanging from the top.
But, I don't dare take the precious mark to my public high school I attend...

[stephofthenight]

ive finaly figured out the bookmark thing... I take a picture of the page im on with my phone now :D

[LitNetIsGreat]

I've used a table knife before now. Oh, and a biscuit. Not at the same time of course, that would be silly.

Bits of envelope, business cards and corners torn off old bits of work tend to be the usual.

A biscuit??:biggrin5:


I so want to be the "cool" person with the hand-made leather bookmark or something crafty dangling from her books and I have been given such gifts but I use them for a book or two and then forget to carry them around.

I am the person with no bookmarks, who, at times, folds the page corners but mostly who ends up trying to remember the page numbers.

Folds pages???:incazzato: Tut, tut.


Usually a pen, since I'm constantly marking in my books. But also the books' receipts, since they're so conveniently THERE after you buy the book, and boarding passes when I'm traveling.

Yes relatively recently I have started using pens and pencils in my books as I write in all of them now. The funny thing is that I am always moaning that there are no pens in the house and blaming the kids.:biggrin5:

My most treasured bookmark is a tiny scrap of a paper bookmark which I've had for about 10 years. It used to say "when I READ a good book I wish that life was 3000 years long" but now it is only about an inch in length and you can only properly see "READ".

I have used many things as bookmarks many of which have been mentioned, bits of torn off paper, bus tickets, the odd leaf etc, etc, though I have also used the odd sock in times of need.

I am always losing my bookmarks though, no matter what I use. Everyday I must lose my page.

[The Comedian]

folds the page corners

Of your library books? :skep:

[Three Sparrows]

I have two nice bookmarks that have paintings from local artists on them, but a lot of times I end up using kleenex, paint brushes, hair pins, pens, other open books, and I do like to dog-ear my books too.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

For Goldsmith - folded magnetic bookmark. A souvenir from the Robie House
For James Fennimore Cooper - a beer coaster from Carlysle Brewing Company
For Cushing - A laminated bookmark with a Renoir painting

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[Lokasenna]

A biscuit??:biggrin5:


A McVities Ginger Nut, to be exact!

[LitNetIsGreat]

A McVities Ginger Nut, to be exact!

Excellent choice!

[papayahed]

Ereader - don't need a book mark, it automatically opens to the last page I read.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

I wonder if anyone's ever used an ereader as a bookmark for an actual book.

[Scheherazade]

Of your library books? :skep:Not the library books... Not very often... OK, maybe on one or two occassions...


I wonder if anyone's ever used an ereader as a bookmark for an actual book.I have; when I study, my ereader is always close at hand (in case I get bored etc) so I used the ereader to mark a page in my text books while taking notes.

[faithosaurus]

My grandparents always send me bookmarks but i somehow find ways to lose them. Kinda sucks.

Usually I'll use something really small, like one of those sticky note tabs. Works like a charm.

[kiki1982]

Excellent choice!

I was going to say the same. Good taste! :D

[Wilde woman]

My most treasured bookmark is a tiny scrap of a paper bookmark which I've had for about 10 years. It used to say "when I READ a good book I wish that life was 3000 years long" but now it is only about an inch in length and you can only properly see "READ".

Neely, that is adorable. The sap in me is now melting into a puddle of awwwww. (I'm trying and failing to find an appropriately sappy emoticon.)

I once got in trouble with my electric company because I used their bill as my bookmark, and promptly forgot to pay my bill. Months later I found it in my copy of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and freaked. Another reason Joyce turns me off.

[Dark Passenger]

A joker card. I seem to have lots of packs of playing cards. I use the jokers.

[RaoulDuke]

A copy of The Green Child by Herbert Read arrived in the post this morning, complete with a train ticket dated July '84 hidden in the back pages. I think for this book I will forgo my usual Yorkshire Tea bookmark and make use of this memento of the epic journey....

...from Birmingham to Coventry.

[JuniperWoolf]

A joker card. I seem to have lots of packs of playing cards. I use the jokers.

I have a friend who writes creepy notes on joker cards and then leaves them around my apartment for me to find. True story.