What do You Use as a Bookmark?

[Andrew]

I've been using the same folded up receipt for nearly five years :)

[António]

A Magic: The Gathering card.

[Daran]

Back in the early 90's, my friends and I were early adopters of the Star Was Customizable Card Game. We spent a significant portion of our early incomes buying the cards in attempts to one up each other. Now, years later, the card games is no more. Their fire has gone out of the universe, and I have several tons of these cards; which comprise a never ending supply of book marks.

Also, my three volume set of Lord of the Rings has Game cards that came with the special boxed set of Fellowship of the Ring DVD.

Lastly, each volume of Harry Potter has a Chocolate Frog Wizard trading card in it.

[Thurman]

nothing I use a kindle lol

[Stuart]

Just been gifted a bookmark by Janny Wurts, so that takes over as my bookmark.

[Nik]

I made my own bookmarks by printnig cool pictures and shrinking them and then laminating them. I also use a few freebies. :D

[Joseph]

When I was younger I used to make bookmarks by just cutting the corner off of an envelope; then you just slip that corner over the page. (Not my own idea -- I found someone else's version in a book I just happened to pick up and read, and shamelessly stole it. First the actual envelope corner, and then the idea when I needed a new one.)

[Jim]

A bookmark made by an aunt of my sister's obituary.

[J.R.]

If i buy the book from my local bookstore, I usually use the receipt, otherwise I have a few free ones I've gotten tucked into the bookshelf.

[Tracy]

Anaclara wrote: "Well I actually collect bookmarks, so I have cheap and fancy and extra fancy ones. I LOVE them since I'm a kid. Here in my town there's a very famous (for the country, obviously) Book Fair every ye..."

I also collect bookmarks, but despite having a vast number of them, many of which are in a folder, and many others floating around the house in use, or not, I can still never find a bookmark when I need one and end up using anything flat that fits.

[Kate]

I use actual bookmarks, mostly ones I received in the mail from Disney or some that I picked up from the library all of them free.

[Thomas]

I use whatever I can find and is useable as a bookmark.

[Felicia]

Any piece of paper available, usually a corner ripped from the nearest sheet. In my copy of Into the Wild from the library someone had left a theatre ticket, so I'm using just using that!

[C.C.]

I have done all of the above. At the moment, I'm using one I made myself out of a comic book board, which I cut down to about an inch and a quarter in width, then I drew a bunny smoking a cigar and drinking a martini.

[Chantell]

I use letters my boyfriend's sent me and free bookmarks about power saving/ eating right from school. XD It varies, most certainly.

[Sophie]

Since owning a Kindle I haven't used a single bookmark, but before I read e-books I had these little magnetic page clips that I loved.

[Chantell]

Sophie wrote: "Since owning a Kindle I haven't used a single bookmark, but before I read e-books I had these little magnetic page clips that I loved."
o.o That sounds awesome. I may have to look into that.

[Ronald]

For a bookmark, I will use whatever paper or flat item is close at hand. Often it is a Post-It note folded in half. Currently it is a tri-fold brochure with propaganda from the company for which I work.

[Carl]

Marvel bookmarks given away by comic shops etc at conventions!

[Paul R]

lol, i am soo bad, people have been giving me bookmarks for years

my bookmark - well the page folds over at the corner. works for me

[Charles]

I used to have a simple paper book mark from my favorite book store growing up called "A Change of Hobbit" but unfortunatly it finally started to fall apart.

Now I use whatever is handy which seams to be those annoying reply cards in magazines that I rip in half length wise.

[Henry]

I actually use old, foreign money. I'm currently using an old Soviet 1000 ruble piece.

[Thomas]

I have a few store bought ones, but my absolute favorite bookmark is a hand-made dragon bookmark that my wife made for me. We picked out the style, beads and such together, and then she put it together for me.

Can't ask for much more than that. :)

[Kam]

Paper napkins from the coffee shops I frequent around my university. There's a lot of Starbucks paper napkins wedged into quite a few of my books.

I do have one fancy bookmark (a flat circular metal peacock, given to me by a friend who was in India for two years), but I only use that for books at home. I also have a bookmark signed by Neil Gaiman, but that one doesn't get removed from my signed copy of Endless Nights.

[dane]

There are two ways I bookmark pages. Dog-earing is only acceptable in my books. I see it as a form of love. My partner however, does not.
So when I'm reading his books I use a postcard I got from some Korean delegates at work. I think postcards are perfect because they are nice and large, so I can't lose them and they usually have a fun image.