What do you use as a bookmark?

[Ava Catherine]

Do you have a bookmark with special meaning that you use? Do you use beautiful bookmarks or free ones that you pick up at the library or other places? Do you use colored, plastic paper clips to mark your pages? What do you use to mark your page in the book you read?

[Ava Catherine]

I have very special Japanese stamp bookmarks that were gifts, and I enjoy using them to mark my pages in the books I am reading. It is always a delight to stop and look at them and remember the person who gave them to me.

However, I have grabbed a receipt, a scrap of paper, a ribbon, a label about to be discarded, a ticket stub, basically anything that is loose at one end to act as a bookmark. And the strange thing is that once I commit to one of these strange items as a bookmark, I tend to hang on to it for the duration of the read. It is as though I have connected the item to the book. I have no explanation for it.

I never dog-ear a page in a book. If I don't have a bookmark with me, I memorize the page number. I also never place a book face down. I think this must go back to my childhood when I learned to care for books.

[Leigh]

Mine are causally any random piece of paper I pick up around the house. It could be receipts, envelopes, cards, or even a shopping list.

[Malina]

I use anything I find around me, I never dog-ear a page either.

[Mona]

I collect bookmarks. Right now I'm using a handmade crocheted one I won from a giveaway. It has an antique button attached to the top like a tassel. Another treasured one is a purple leather one embossed with the quote, "Where there is love, there is life." This one was a b-day gift from my brother 10 years ago. It bears bite marks from when my daughter used it as a teether.

I don't dog-ear pages either. And I've used random paper I find lying around. A while back I read about a library that created a display of items left in returned books.

[Roland]

Receipts, mostly, since those are the ones that are usually lying around where I read. Usually it's the receipt I used to buy that book!

Every now and then, though, I'll actually have a bookmark handy (my mom loves to send me one with every letter she mails me).

[Beth]

Connie wrote: "Do you have a bookmark with special meaning that you use? Do you use beautiful bookmarks or free ones that you pick up at the library or other places? Do you use colored, plastic paper clips to mar..."

I use variouos bookmarks but never paper clips.

If the book was mailed to me, it usally comes with something, a packing slip or maybe a letter from the publisher or a bookmark marketing that book. I use whatever came with the book.

Otherwise, I use holy cards, things I get in the mail from the Humane Society, bookmarks from my cat's vet, etc.

[Heidi]

I grab whatever piece of junkmail.is handy. the funny thing is whenever I have a nice bookmark I promptly lost it... but the junk mail lasts and lasts!

[Katherine]

My bookmark I've had for over 20 years. I bought it in Cyprus on holiday one year. It's leather and the top part is almost ready to break off because it has been bent so much

[Laura]

I usually use just about anything: straws, napkins, parking tickets, and a free bookmark from the library of Scarlett O'Hara reading Shelly's FRANKENSTEIN in bed. I do have a special "Doors of Dublin" in the shape of a door(strange but true) with an intricate transom. It's metallic gold and clips to the page. It's found a new home in a long-awaited novel =)

[Bill]

I have many, many book marks from the various book shops where I purchase my books, but I tend to use two that I received as gifts; one a metallic one with a quote by Churchill, 'Never, never, never quit.' that my wife bought me and another that features a picture of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I got as a gift many years ago and is slowly wearing out..

[Nancy]

I have a friend whose handicapped brother goes to a daycare and makes bookmarks, so I use the ones she gives me

[Kathy]

I use a ticket stub from the Tottenham v Liverpool (my two favorite EPL teams) game that I saw last summer

[Kathy]

Good ideas, Jenni. I hope I never lose my ticket stub - its so precious to me - but I like the idea of bar coasters.

[Rick]

I have used for a number of years now, a wallet sized picture of my first Grandson. He is about 4 in the photo. He is now nearly 16. Always a lift to see his smiling face as I resume the book and a joy when closing the book and placing it on the night stand before falling off for another night of rest.

[Jane]

I have a collection of bookmarks that I've picked up from different book stores. Most are old and raggedy but I continue to use them as reminders of all the stores I've visited - and they have the titles of books scribbled on the backs of books I wanted to remember to read.

[Jane]

I use Post-it Flags to mark pages with information or passages I want go back to re-read.

[Bill]

I've attached pictures of my bookmarks.. :0) http://bill-booksbooksbooks.blogspot....

[Robin]

I use a leather bookmark that I got on my first visit to Bristol, England when I was dating my now husband (he's a Brit). It's from the museum and art gallery. That was 13yrs ago. It's worn, but then again, so am I after that long:)

[Tracey]

I use True Blood magnetic book marks. My friend brought a set of 4 for me at Xmas, they are the best bookmarks I have ever used. As its magnetic I don't lose my page. A great idea.

[Sue Em]

I have a page-a-day cat calendar from which I collect favorite photo pages to use as bookmarks. As I choose what book to read next, I choose one of the calendar pages to use as a bookmark. It may be that the colors in the photo are complementary to the cover of the book or it may have a corresponding theme. Of course I'm the weirdo who matches the ink in my pen to my outfit at work. Did I mention that I have a pen fetish too ;-)

[Curlyhair]

I used to use ordinary book marks the kind you buy as a souvenir when on holiday. But, as they kept falling out I started to use post it notes, which were good at doing their job! But I've now discovered those new magnetic book marks you can buy at book shops and surprise surprise I bought the 'crime' ones which I rotate. Have to say they are a great idea.

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Index cards. I always have them handy and if I lose one, I have a stack of about 100 others. Plus I can write notes on them.

[Patricia]

Actual bookmarks, or whatever is handy.

[C.]

I was in Seattle, WA for a corporate conference. It was as close as I would probably be to where my younger brother lived in Portland. I arranged for a trip on Amtrak to Portland to visit him for the first time in a few years. I used my ticket stub as a bookmark when I was not able to complete the book by the time my train had arrived. Years later, I picked up the book and found the stub, which I probably would have discarded otherwise. It brought back a flood of memories of a great trip, and a nice reunion with my little brother.

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[Leigh]

What a lovely memory. I hope you see your brotehr more often these days.

[Katherine]

I hope so too. I can't imagine not meeting my siblings on a regular basis. Never more that at least 9/10 months and we skype every week or so

[Nicola]

I have several special bookmarks which I use all the time. Problem is when they are all currently in use, then it's the closest bit of paper that is used.

[Angela]

I use these clear post it arrows I have. I mark my page easily since I can never stop in the middle of a chapter. So my page is always on a chapter. If that makes sense lol

[Leigh]

Same here actually. I have to finish a chapter and stop there. If I am tired I might have to go back and rad the last bit but I never stop before finishing a chapter.

[Angela]

Jenni I do the same with my post its I always put extras in the back lol

[Anirudh]

I pick up three or four bookmarks from the bookstore whenever I buy a book. I want each book to have its own bookmark and hence, I should be resourceful, since picking up around 10 complementary bookmarks would be rather indecent. So, I use cloth tags, the tags I get for my handbaggage while checking into an aircraft...

[Elizabeth]

Don't laugh! I use religious icon prints that I've printed out on my computer and laminated. Murder mysteries and the face of Jesus on the same page? Weird. huh? But think about it...good vs. evil...

[Gina]

Well, I have a kindle now so I just use the electronic book Mark and it's really nice. But before when I used regular books, I would just use a scrap of paper. Ha

[fabby]

i dog ear i know its bad but i can never remember a bookmark

[Donna]

I have a collection of bookmarks from the library. They had a contest inviting children to design bookmarks. The winners were then printed for library patrons. The artwork is very colourful and cheerful.

[Shelah]

I have two bookmarks that I rotate, and then if they are missing in action I use any piece of paper I can find.

[Matthew]

Typically, I grab whatever slip of paper is availble. I'm currently using one of my business cards. I also have a Space Needle bookmark I love.

[Melanie]

I use a 3 x 5 white index card folded in half lengthwise. The card comes in handy for note taking if I come across a quote or reference I want to remember while reading the book.

[Dean]

I usually jam in a used envelope. If I can't find one of those I just use one of the many thumbs of critics that I have lying around.

[James]

More often than not it is the receipt for the book I have purchased. Have a few special bookmarks but more often then not the receipt.

[Meagan]

Wow. I feel barbaric compared to you guys. I just use whatever is lying around at the time, be it a spoon, piece of paper, change, necklace chain, sock, etc. *facepalm* *so ashamed* Lol. :)

[James]

Why be ashamed, you just need to be organised.Meagan wrote: "Wow. I feel barbaric compared to you guys. I just use whatever is lying around at the time, be it a spoon, piece of paper, change, necklace chain, sock, etc. *facepalm* *so ashamed* Lol. :)"

[Meagan]

Lol. I've tried but, alas it worked for like two days. Oh well.:)

[Debbie]

Every time I go to the library they have book marks by the desk I am always grabbing 1 or 2.

[Jason]

I use just whatever comes to hand. Phone, pen, receipt, bit of tissue paper, old envelope, sock, watch, DVD, credit card... If I'm reading on my kindle, I'm happy to not have that problem. One of the great things about an Ereader, I guess.

[Meagan]

@Jason I'm the same way! :D

[N]

I use free bookmarks, old envelopes, photos, postcards, old and new bought book marks, random bits of torn paper and in desperation I FOLD OVER THE CORNER!! OMFG lol

[James]

Folding over the corner, thats a cardinal sin.
Nicola wrote: "I use free bookmarks, old envelopes, photos, postcards, old and new bought book marks, random bits of torn paper and in desperation I FOLD OVER THE CORNER!! OMFG lol"

[N]

not one of the 7 deadly so I'll be right ;) lol