What do You Use as a Bookmark?

[Jason]

I use a dollar bill (US) it's cheaper than a regular bookmark, and far more durable. I've been using the same dollar bill for the past four or five years, the store bought plastic ones fall apart after two or three books (about 6 weeks).

[Luis]

Kevin wrote: "I never used bookmarks until I was in high school. Now I use the free ones that are my local library has, which information about the library. The good thing is if I misplace or lose whne I can alw..."

I also used to remember the page number!
Now I use whatever I have at hand, maybe loosing the ability to remember the page is a way of knowing you are maturing. lol

[Ashley]

I used to use a Star Trek: Generations one that I had since 1994 but it finally fell appart last year so the one I use now is one from a book store in the UK called The Works (The bookmark was for them celebrating over 100 branches nationwide)

[Jessica]

I used to have an awesome "zombies are crap at knitting" bookmark...but I'm pretty sure my cat ate it...so right now I'm using an earring...because I like to keep it classy.

[Darin]

A post-it, folded in half so it sticks to itself. If one isn't available, any piece of paper smaller than the book will do.
I used to be able to remember page numbers, even on several books at once, but I might have nearly a dozen books going at once, with a couple weeks between picking one up. A marker is a necessity, now.

[Deb]

The bookmarks from the book depository. They have useful information, and are often quite entertaining, even if the book isn't.

[Sadie]

It's one of two extremes. I love fancy bookmarks, and have several expensive ones. If I am at home with on within reach I love slipping it between the pages. More often than not, however, I'm out and about and just grab whatever scrap of paper is close by. If its a hardback with a book cover I often just use the leaf.

[Frederick]

I've got a freebie from a local museum, which I'm currently using for Hyperion, and a more sentimental one from Krakow, sent to me by a friend. That's currently stuck in A Blight of Mages - hope to finish that book soon!

[Carrie]

I have a few different ones I could use, but I am currently using this one. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I...

[Rambler]

I use pretty much anything as a bookmark, but it has to have some sort of sentimental value.

For instance, I have feathers from different places I've been, I have ticket stubs from films I went to see, I have bookmarks I received as gifts, graduation invitations, that sort of thing.

[Melissa]

I typically listen to my books, but if I am reading one in print I always use a 3x5 card.

[Sarah]

I find whatever peice of paper is lying closest, usually a receipt or bit of envelop. Though last year I bought a book mark at a pop culture con and it's lasted really well despite being longer than I like (sticks out of the end of normal sized books) though it's great for the tall books particularly hardcovers.

When I am reading one book regularly, and have none on the backburner then I'll just remember the page number or chapter number. Though when I've got several books on the run and can't read often because of tafe (school) I usually just use a receipt. I find thick things such as cards damage the binder and leave marks.

When travelling I use train tickets, work really well because they are a thin cardboard and don't mark the page.

[Mike]

I use whatever is lying around unless it is a library book. If it is a library book, I use the receipt so that I know when the book is due back.

[HeyT]

I'm a big fan of the post it. I like that I can just stick it on the back of the book while I'm reading and that it doesn't fall out of the book when I toss it in my bag.

[Snap]

Same here, i've been useing the small pink post it thingys for ages

[Skaw]

While I usually use library receipts, junk mail, or none at all, I am a sucker for a cute kitten or puppy on a bookmark. It doesn't mean I use it (I mean too, but they're never around when I need them). But the cuteness lures me into buying them. . .

[September]

I cut strips of index cards, fold them in half, then stick a piece of magnet (Pre-sticky on one side.) on each end, causing the ends to stick together. I never lose my place or my bookmark! :D

I'll never go back to just some piece of paper, etc. :D

[Albert]

I use an old bookmark I got from my local library about 15 years ago.

[terpkristin]

I bought this one last week when I decided I wanted Endymion in DTE. I don't usually even look at the bookmarks at B&N but I couldn't help but think of this thread when I walked by it en route to the register.

[Tamahome]

terpkristin wrote: "I bought this one last week when I decided I wanted Endymion in DTE..."

DTE?

[terpkristin]

Dead tree edition..

[Tamahome]

terpkristin wrote: "Dead tree edition.."

Ohhh.

DTS = Dead Tree Ship?

[Kathryn]

AndrewP wrote: "This is a totally off the wall question based on seeing people use all manner of things as bookmarks over the years.

There seem to be several categories:

1) Fancy store bought ones.
2) Something ..."

Receipts. Anything else I lose. I have had some really gorgeous bookmarks over the years, including handmade ones and I lose them, but for some reason a receipt for the book when I bought it sticks around forever. >.<

[Julie]

Currently using a Darren Shan business card type card (from when he signed my book), until I lose that. Then it'll be back to the first beat up/worthless trading card in my duplicates pile.

[Andrew]

A D&D miniature's card or the "We the People" bookmark from the Smithsonian.

[Maybe]

I use a miniature laminated diploma that I got when I graduated high school in 2001. I have been using this for 12 years now.

[Tamahome]

At the bookstore I often grab cards that fall out of magazines.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*]

I use whatever is at hand. Right now I collect bookmark size stuff...and I just stuff it in whatever book I'm reading.

Currently I'm using a chocolate chip cookie recipe.

[Erick]

I usually use whatever's closest, but currently it's been a brochure for a hostel in Yangshuo, China, that I picked up last year. It's a good size and heft, and it has some nice scenery on it!

[Monique]

Mainly numbers 3 and 4. The free stuff is great for when I need something substantial to remember my place and I remember to grab it before I start reading. However, when that fails, what ever is handy works just fine. Lately however I have been using an information card about sun safety. Works great to remind me to put on my sunscreen before I start to read in the sun.

[Anne]

A little fuzzy gift bookmark that is essentially the hind legs and tail of an orange cat. (not a real cat)

[Jordan]

Most of the time I use the receipt from the bookstore where I bought it. There have been a couple of books where I've been terrible and just left it open to the page I was up to But most of the time it's receipts.

[Carrie]

terpkristin wrote: "I bought this one last week when I decided I wanted Endymion in DTE. I don't usually even look at the bookmarks at B&N but I couldn't help but think of this thread when I walked by it en route to t..."

That's mine :)

[Dustin]

I like when you find someone elses old bookmarks in a used book. My favorite so far is an old 70's flight time table brochure, although it's pretty large so I only really use it for larger books. I have several from bookstores, which I like since I got them from different stores in different places. I also will sometimes just use odds and ends, namely a largish sticker (from a softer world). My main consideration is the size in proportion to the book. I don't like a little bookmark in a big book or vice-versa. There's a ratio I like.

[AC]

I have some bookmarks that promote certain books, if I don't use those I like to use postcards. If I don't have postcards, "real bookmarks" or photos at hand, I use anything. My cellphone, receipts..
At the moment I use an oversized Magic:The Gathering card ;)

[Michelle]

My fiance and I went to B&N this weekend and while we were in line to check out he's talking about random things then stops mid sentence and says "Oh my god! Look at these!" So yea, now I have an Boba Fett bookmark :)

[Christine]

Leighann wrote: "Lately I've been using bookmarks that I crocheted (well, when I'm not reading my Kindle, of course). They're thong-style bookmarks with a design on one end and a loop on the other. That way when I'..."

That's a great idea! I might have to try that out.

I usually use a store bought bookmark. My favorite one currently is metal with beaded ribbons hanging from it. It has a quote on it that says, "Wisdom begins in wonder." I love the quote, and I'm a sucker for sparkly things, which I get with the beaded ribbons. I don't like how easily metal bookmarks fall out of books though. When I get books from work (I work at a library), I usually just use the slip of paper with my name on it that we put in for holds.

[Jocelyn]

My five year old niece likes to draw me little pictures and these have now become my bookmarks of choice. Before she started doing the little drawings for me I had the tendency to use one of my business cards.

[Paul]

Our libraries usually have thin card ones advertising public services, or else similar ones from the bookstore. Not brilliant but they served a purpose.

Until last Christmas when my daughter gave me a nice metal one that hooks over the binding and has a Spitfire aeroplane in relief dangling from the end of a chain. :D

It looks a tad incongruous in the Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb.
On the other hand, dragons spit fire so why not? lol

[Rob, Roberator]

Old movie ticket stubs stubs..

[Hershel]

I tend to use note cards, magazine inserts etc. anything cheap. However I am using the paper one that came with a book that I ordered from Warwicks

[Aidan]

My memory, a lot of the time. Either that or one of my business cards.

[Kristina]

My husband and I had custom bookmarks printed for wedding favors. I had enough left over that I'm still using them 7 years later. I love them though, our oldest son was in kindergarten when we wed and he drew a picture of a groom and a bride. We used that image on the invites, thank you cards and bookmarks. They also have our names, wedding date and a quote from the song we danced to.

[Andre]

Anything I can find. Usually the kids (age 1 & 4) yank them out, so goodreads is my back-up bookmark.

[Louie]

My local bookstore (Bookmans) has an annual Fight Censorship campaign every September. They ran this design one year, which became wildly popular, and I still use the bookmark with this image on it, five years later.

[Antonio]

I cut sticky notes into ribbons about an inch long and a quarter of an inch wide. They stick out about an eight of an inch. If they're horizontal, they mark an interesting passage or idea or character introduction (I'm terrible at keeping characters straight), etc. If the tags are diagonal, they mark where I'm at and the end of that chapter.

Neurotic much?

[Paul]

@Andre
"Anything I can find, usually the kids (age 1 & 4)"

That shocked me as I read it
Surely the kids would ruin the book's binding?
But then I read on and am relieved to hear your books are well looked after. Phew!

[Forrest]

Magic cards. Or pop-surrealist postcards. Or a real bookmark (I have a few really old ones). Since I read about 6 books at a time, I need a lot of bookmarks. :)

[Mike]

I use a tongue depressor with a picture of a zombie on it.

[Jonathan]

I remember the page numbers most of the time. But if I want a bookmark I just grab scraps of paper that I always have on hand. I like to write or scribble thoughts and so forth down so I often have lined pieces of paper around.