Bookmarks

Do you use the nearest paper scrap, tissue, or heaven forbid do you bend pages? Or do you have a bejewelled marker, ribbon, magnet or such? Does it matter to you what you use?

For some reason, I am fairly particular about my bookmarkers. I always use ticket stubs from musicals, plays, opera, or art exhibits I have been to see - not movie tickets as they are too small. It is double your pleasure - to open the book and be reminded of a fabulous "Tosca" or "Jersey Boys" that I saw or a recent exhibit of Impressionist paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago. I keep them all from years past and vary the ones I use.

I print the free Librarything bookmarkers on parchment for two sided or Vellum for single sided. They make crisp and sturdy makers and I can print them up as I need them. I like to print out 12 at a time cause I always lose them.

I usually use whatever's closest because all the bookmarks I buy seem to disappear. I did just start keeping real bookmarks and stubs or fun little papers together to use as bookmarks...we'll see how that works out.

I have also been known to bend pages *gasp!* I know how some people feel about this, but for me, I like books with character like that. When a book is a little banged up and dog-eared, it makes me happy because, usually, that means it is well-read and well-loved.

I collect all kinds of bookmarks from everywhere and just sort of rotate through them. They're all over my house! :)

I too, lose all the "real" bookmarks I try to use. So instead I use anything handy. I like using post-it notes the most, because they don't slip out.

I also like to use paint sample cards, when i have them. I sometimes pick up one or two at the hardware store, but I feel guilty when I do .. it feels like stealing
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When a book is a little banged up and dog-eared, it makes me happy because, usually, that means it is well-read and well-loved.

Yep. I'm a once and future dogear-er.

I generally use whatever's handy, most of the time the hold slips that the library puts in the books I have had on hold at the library. Sorry, but I cannot stand dog-earing books.

Post cards for me, small book marks always seem to fall out but when I have post card size I never loose my place. Besides I can always look at the picture if the book is getting a bit tedious :)

Can't stand cracked spines or dog-ears, they even sound painful.

Post-its are my favorite because as mckait says, they don't fall out. Plus, they're just sitting on the desk at work and are easy to grab.

I had a book I was packaging up for BookMooch this morning, thumbed through it briefly, and found a post-it from God-knows how long ago. I took it out.

I don't particularly love cracked spines, but if a book is so tight that reading it is hard on my hands and if it's a mass market paperback, I'll crack the spine. I did it this morning on Anna's Book by Barbara Vine without a qualm. It was used though; can't remember when I last did that to a new book.

I do not dog-ear the pages, though.

not a fan of folded pages. They make me cringe :-/

I used to get books from the library that were not only folded, but folded into fans.....YIPE!

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I'm like you, when I go to buy a used book I like the ones that look worn they just seem cozier. I buy books for me, I'm selfish. I don't buy books to pass on (my sons don't read the same things I do) and I don't sell my books. I do underline and make notes in my books and if I have to, I'll dog ear a page. But then since it's my book I can and not feel guilty. I don't use the library because it's not convient for me so I don't know about the condition their books.

I also have a variety of bookmarks I like to use. I have a particular spot for them on my book shelf but they often wind up all over the place.

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While I'm a page-folder of my own books, I do agree with you on books from the library. They are not mine, other people will be using them, so I use a bookmark for them.

I hate dogearing pages. I will write notes in a book or highlight though, depending on why I'm reading the book and what it is.

I like to use post cards as bookmarks. I also use index cards for books I'm reading with a book club so I can write the reading schedule on them. I use the slips the library puts in a book it orders for you from another branch for this too. They are nice and long and yellow.

When I read before I went to college, I had a large collection of bookmarks. They are at my parent's house somewhere in the few boxes of things I still have there. (I should add that I'm 10 years out from starting college. lol)

I have many store-bought and homemade bookmarks, but I'll use any slip of paper that's handy if I didn't plan ahead. I have to be careful using the tasseled and beaded bookmarks because there's nothing else that can make a sleeping cat wake up and enter play mode so fast as one of those hanging down the back of a book.

I stopped dogearing pages years ago when I noticed that older books with fragile paper were missing triangles of paper where folds had been—and some people fold 1/2 the page down.

I stopped dogearing pages years ago when I noticed that older books with fragile paper were missing triangles of paper where folds had been...

That's certainly a good reason not to dogear a book's pages!

I use a king of spades playing card.

I go down to a local arts and crafts chain to purchase blank bookmarks in bulk. They come in packs of 50 or so and in a variety of mostly unexciting colors, but they get the job done and are pretty darned cheap.

As for dogearing, I do do that, but only if I don't have any page points with me at the time. I'll go back and insert a page point later. I'm also one of the heathens that will write marginalia in a non-fiction book.

funny~ dog earing bothers me, but writing in a book does not. I don't do it, but I actually like finding writing in a used book. Also, my great grandmother used to write little bits of things anywhere there was a blank spot in books... and it never had anything to do with the book.. just what she was thinking at the time.
Odd, but fascinating...for me anyway. I also have her journals.. which are mad up of odd blank books and notepads...

I love reading them.

I usually tear a piece of paper out of my notebook or find a scrap somewhere. I like bookmarks from the store that look nice, but I'd probably lose it. That's why I use scrap paper. There are times when I dog-ear the page, but I try not to, and I never do it with a new book.

Right now there is a movie stub from "Slumdog Millionaire" in my new book. Good movie, good book, who could ask for anything more?

When I was younger, the school library used construction paper to stamp the return date on and put it in a pocket at the front of the book. I used those as bookmarkers, though I was a paper-chewer at the time as well, so those bookmarks didnt last long. (Luckily I've outgrown that habit.)
In middle school I dog-eared books as the book would be in my backpack during classes and the paper bookmarks would inevitably fall out.
In later years I used whatever piece of paper was handy then graduated to post it notes as they were really convenient. I quit using post it notes when I noticed that the sticky part of the post it would remove the ink from the pages, fading the book prematurely grey.
My husband has gotten into cards in recent years. The jokers and extra ad cards in the deck are what I use currently.

I use whatever's closest. Post-it notes (folded in half) and index cards are my favorite, but I've been known to use envelopes, rubber bands, ribbon, and even a paper towel.

Raw, sliced bacon.

Robert

Thick cut or peppered?

Thin. Meat and curing agent, nothing else.

Robert

YUM,YUM *licks lips*

Not after it's been in a book for a week.

Robert

I make my own book thongs -- a nice piece of ribbon or string, a bead or two at each end, and you're good to go. Failing that I use whatever's within reach.

Problem with using bacon is that it smells so good I get distracted and have to go eat breakfast.

If I used bacon I'd have to read quickly so it doesn't stay in the book for a week, or read shorter books.

Either the dog or the cat would make short work of the bacon and the book...

Paperback Booksmith used to give out ruled bookmarks (in the 70s). I wrote down the names of books on the rules as I finished them. Useful record now.

Behind the music reference books is the hidey-hole where we toss old postcards, the ads that fall out of New Yorker and (even) some real bookmarks we've acquired over many years. We reach in and, at random, there's a page-marker. Fun when it actually matches the subject matter of book.

The other day I was reading at my folks' house and when I was finished, I dog-eared the page I was on. Suddenly, my step-mom jumped up from the table, disappeared for a bit, and returned with a stack of tiny post-its. "There!" she said. Apparently, dog-earing bothers her, too. I don't mind it at all.

When I retired from teaching, I was gifted with 128 bookmarks made by students I had taught. I use a different one for each book I read...Haven't been through the pile yet. It was my very favourite retirement gift. I remember each of the kids for several days while they mark my page.
I also keep sticky notes inside the front cover to mark noteable passages.

I'm an attorney and from moving my office I have lots of unneeded business cards. They are smaller than regular bookmarks and work very well. I keep a box of them on top of a bookshelf and just pull one out when I start a new book.
I have never dog-eared pages and rarely write in books. I do have a nice Faber-Castell mechanical pencil with a thin lead that I use if I want to write in a book. When I was in school I used to write all over textbooks but not in the books I read now.
How to Read a Book advocates writing in books but I can't bring myself to write all over a really nice book.

There are so many leather bookmarks made and yet they're useless at the job - too thick by far. Give me a slim piece of card any day. I made a bookmark out of thin ribbon for my daughter, who was reading on a journey, and made the ribbon join up in a circle. It works really well, doesn't get lost and you just pass the pages you've read under the ribbon each time.

Oh my god, I thought I was the only person who used tissues as book marks!

But mainly I use the book's receipt as a bookmark.

...Just in case midway through the book turns out to be lame and I need to return it.

:)

Message #2, LA12Hernandez,
Where on LT can one find the bookmarkers to print?

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http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/Printables

Each book gets 6-10 index cards. If there's something I want to remember or look up later, in goes a card. These get stuck in at the bottom of the book if not imperative, and any sticking out of the top are things to definitely go back to.Even in the lightest of fiction I'll find a turn of phrase, a thought to ponder,something that jogs a thought of my own. If I don't mark the spot, I'll lose it forever.(did you ever try to backtrack? like- I think she said that somewher in chapter three? forget about it!)

sqdancer,
Thanks for the link!

I have many bookmarks, some I bought, and lots have been given to me, since everyone knows I'm a book addict. If there isn't one handy, I've been known to use ticket stubs, or those annoying cards that fall out of my magazines trying to get me to subscribe, or anything handy.

I treat books lovingly; I detest finding a library book with big dog-ears throughout - won't even do that to my old mass market paperbacks.

Here is the old "bookmark" thread...check out #24...LOL

I have loads of bookmarks everywhere. i mainly collect them from the libary but i have brought alot as well. How do you get the bookmarks from library thing?

People give me bookmarks all the time and I use them in my books. But my question is...How do you store them? In a drawer, box, jar? I have been keeping mine in a pencil cup but it really doesn't work very well. I am open to ideas.

Someone mentioned a 5x7 photo album and it works well for me.