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Do you use a bookmark?
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Frank
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Jan 13, 2008 07:50PM
I stopped a while back and am glad I did. I have a nasty tendency to "sport read" where I really try to push how many books I can read in a given week and that.Not using a bookmark forces me to go back over the last little bit before I stopped and I feel like I remember things better after I'm done. Also, it encourages me to stop reading at good spots like the end of chapters and such.
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No. I do something much worse, I put the book open and face down to keep my place.
I don't have any hard/fast rules. Books I'm whipping through quickly (The Subtle Knife, currently) I don't; books that I know are going slowly (Atlas Shrugged), yes. Sometimes when I'm really ambitious, as with Rand's "masterpiece", I use a 3x5 or 4x6 card and I make occasional notes, which helps a lot when you put something down for a month or two at a time...
Yeah, I know. Although, if I borrow a book from someone, or it's a "good" book, I'll use a bookmark of some sort. But all the library books and used paperbacks I read ... dog-ear.
You dog-ear library books? Oh man, YOUR that guy!I usually use an index card. If it's a book I don't want to write in, I'll make occasional notes on the card, and stick it in the back of the book when I'm done reading it.
I usually use whatever receipt I have in my pocket.
I use whatever is handy... usually a plane ticket of something if I am reading on a plane. Or if it is hardbound with a cover I just use the cover fold to mark my place.
I read electronically so my PDA does it for me.
I usually use little scraps of paper that I tear off of bills or something, but I do have a few nice bookmarks around. I was at my parents over the holidays and I started using a little scrap of newspaper so my mother went and bought me one that was handpainted on leftover tin by artisans in Puerto Rico, or something like that.
I usually use the subscription cards from magazines. They're really good for bookmarks. I've also used receipts and other paper scraps. I was so anal about my books as a kid that I wouldn't dare dogear or lay a book open face down to save my place. That would have been sacrilegious, and the habits just continued.
I'm totally anal about keeping books in good shape as well. My copy of "The Hobbit", bought in probably 1977 when I was 11 or 12, doesn't quite look brand new anymore, but most people wouldn't guess it had been read 30-40 times either.I don't think I've ever dog-eared a book in my life, unless perhaps it was a library book that was already beat to hell.
I always use bookmarks. I do reread the past couple of pages. If I didn't use a bookmark, I would read ahead and piss myself off.
