Mine looks like a watercolor of 4 cows. There is a mom with a bucket and a baby petting one of the cows, which is licking him on the neck. It's called "Cowlick" by Dianne L. Patterson.

Using a sweet magnetic Beatrix Potter bookmark that I bought at Heathrow airport, while I read The House of Doctor Dee by British author Peter Ackroyd.

Finishing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for banned books week and have a Harry Potter bookmark in it. Also reading The Woman in White which, of course, is set in England and begins in London, so I chose a bookmark with Big Ben on it.

The real question is, what in heavens name will I use with my next two The Graveyard Book and Frankenstein.

I've been using a book mark from a Planned Parenthood book sale. It just has lots of bright colors and an advertisement of when and where the book sale is. I'm currently using that one for The Shining. I also have a book mark that I found in one of my used books. It's just a narrow strip of paper that says 'Scratch paper for narrow-minded bastards'. I don't think I'll be using it anymore due to the fact that it doesn't help me find my page since it's so thin.
I tend to not care about what book mark I'm using. I like heavy ones and book marks that aren't actually book marks. (Such as a heavy piece of paper with a picture of a dinosaur and a joke on the back. I think it's out of a Cracker Jack box?)

At the moment, I haven't started another book, but in the last one I used one of those subscription postcards that fall out of magazines. I have some lovely bookmarks that I have been given - hand-crocheted, another cross-stitched, yet another a blend of woods...and I use these, but I also, in a pinch, will use old laminated convention nametags, tissues, pennies, post-its, and junk mail (whatever is handy, actually).

I'm using a lovely Belletrista.com bookmark for all my books right now!

This one: http://static.bookdepository.co.uk//asse...

I usually get whichever I see first but since this one arrived, I seem to be using only it.

I,m currently useing a train ticket!

So many otherwise useless things suddenly find a use when I'm looking for a bookmark - as others have mentioned, train tickets, advertising postcards and leaflets etc, but I do like a bookmark that was made for the purpose and I can't resist buying them. Right now I'm using a lovely brushed stainless steel one that was given to me by a friend and which lists 50 'books to read before you die'. It's nicely indestructible, unlike most bookmarks, and has a useful straight edge for any time I need to draw a straight line. I've read 40 of the books and am not sufficiently interested in the remaining 10 but it would be lovely if they produced lots and lots of these with different lists on each, then we could use them as book-buying reminders too.

I'm using one that I made myself from different pictures of my favorite anime/manga character, it's all laminated and everything :-) Kind of silly for someone my age, but I like it.

Right now a red pen is marking my place along with a sheet of lime green note paper. I don't usually use my pen as a book marker, but the cats have taken to stealing the pens from me so the only way I can keep them safe is to hide them in the book I'm reading.

When the cats move on to hiding the tape and paperclips, you're sunk.

I just ordered a handmade bookmark from here:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=673...

So pretty.

#12, jennieg - Oh, no, it's when the cats take your reading glasses into the spare room and somehow manage to hide them under the vacuum cleaner that you're sunk. I found them a week after I bought a replacement pair. I just never realized how much they hated me reading instead of petting and pampering them.

#14 They must really have it in for you, seitherin. ;) Aren't you lucky they don't have thumbs?

I'm using a Barnes & Noble 18th Street bookmark (World's Largest Bookstore!) and a dragonfly bookmark for Kevin Crossley-Holland's The Norse Myths.

You folks have some ingenious cats.

Right now its a hockey ticket stub

I'm using a small wrought iron black cat clipmark at the moment.

Thought some of you might like to check this bookmark site out that I found surfing earlier.

I know I want to get a set of the wooden bookmarks, they are just stunning.

http://www.miragebookmark.ch/index.html

I'm using an expired coupon from our food co-op.

>I think my puppy does have thumbs. She managed to let herself out of her crate today. Uh oh.

I am using my old faithful, a small brown leather bookmark with a white and a brown ribbon, and the quote "Wisdom begins in wonder" from Socrates printed in silver on the front.

I almost always use this bookmark, since I usually only read one book at a time, though if I am reading two I have a bookmark from the Bodleian Library in Oxford, blue leather with an illuminated B (my last name starts with B).

debavp - Thanks for the link - lovely stuff! I've bookmarked it (sadly, electronically) for further use.

ETA - because I get through bookmarks at a phenomenal rate I'm always on the lookout for things that make good markers and, preferably, come free. Some of the handiest I've found yet are those little colour-chart strips you get in DIY stores for paint colours (Dulux, I think). Just the right size, weight, thickness etc and you get to help yourself to as many as you want!

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My cats aren't quite as clever. They're preferred method of interrupting my reading is to come sit on the book.

Right now I'm using a Fox Mulder bookmark. I miss the X-Files.

Currently, I'm electronic bookmarking, since the 2 books I'm reading now are eBooks. But, I usually use a bookmark from my local library that advertises some book they just received or some obscure author's book signing.

i have a flip flop bookmark for any book of mine. i also have a bookmark that has a moon and a sun on blue paper. Verrrrrry nice!

>21 Good suggestion regarding the color strips; although the last time I went to the paint store, I bought the master collection of strips which is hinged and about 3 inches deep!

color strips are.....?

#26 Okay - I thought at the time I probably should have explained. We're talking about the little paint-sample cards you can pick up from DIY stores. At least, you can over here (UK) but they may very well be completely different in the States. There is one UK company who makes them just the right size and shape for bookmarks. You don't get a whole booklet of all their colours, you get a little strip about 6"x1" of 'mossy greens' or 'peachy pinks'. You can grab handfuls of them and they'll see you right for bookmarks for years.

I'm using a bookmark that Bookcloseouts.com sent me with my last order. I have a bunch of these around the house, which shows you how much I like Bookcloseouts.com. lol

I'm using a bookmark from The Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign. It is October the month dedicated to breast cancer. How long has it been since you last made your auto exam or been to the doctor?

I grabbed what was closest to me at the time. I have a business card a friend of mine gave me. Since the book I'm currently reading is paperback, the business card is just perfect.

For the books I read for my degree I use lined paper as bookmarks because I write down notes as I go along. For the books I read in my spare time I use anything...at the moment it's a phone sock!!

> #27- oh NOW i know what you mean. i don't live in the UK but we have them in paint stores where i live! wow, i felt a wee bit behind on the conversation, and you totally caught me up! Thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm a new girl...
For years I used a sheet from those little square blocks of notepaper next to the phone, but maybe 10, 12 years ago one of my sons gave me a leather bookmark from a National Trust property (I'm in the UK, the National Trust owns and administers big old houses from the past - think Gosford Park) and of course I had to show him I was using it. And it became a habit, and I still use it, and I look for it if I mislay it. (I'm usually on one book at a time, but if I get sidetracked into something else it's back to the square notes again.)

Hi new girl! Welcome to the thread and to LT in general! You just reminded me of post-it notes (though I know that's not what you meant). The best ones are those little tiny strips - great for marking not only your page, but the very line you were on too.

grrrrr some1 broke my flip-flop bookmark today. Now i gotta find a new 1 to use.... like a post-it note or paint strip!!!!!

I am using a bookmark with basic Portuguese phrases on it, while reading a collection of Brazilian short stories.

Hello, I'm new here!
I use a bookmark with an old man standing on a ladder in a biiigg library where the bookshelves go beyond the ceiling, and he has a book in each of his hands, one book clamped between his legs and one under his arm.The whole is painted/printed in different brown shades.

Hello new here! Welcome to the site, the thread and everything that goes with it. And that bookmark sounds yummy.

Welcome, Booksloth!

No, not me, Tallulah_Rose.

Welcome Tallulah_Rose!!

The book mark I am currently using for The Outlander is actually 3 different ones. I was first using the receipt from the library, just because I needed a place to store it when I left the library. I also have in there an appointment card for the dentist. Same reason as above since I was reading the book while at the dentists office. And the actual book mark I am using is a Twilight group one. All of them are in the same spot too.

I don't remember which one I was using for Dead in Dallas, it is probably a Harry Potter one.

I just got a Sony Reader, so my bookmark is an electronic dog ear.

I have a cloth bookmark with a Star of David embroidered on it, and I am using it while reading Fugitive Pieces about the survival of a 7 year old Jewish boy in WWI Poland.

My current bookmark is hot pink. It's got bugs bunny wearing seriously deep green broad shorts and a safety vest, riding a lurid yellow windsurfer and the words 'wadical wabbit' in capitals splashed across the top.

I keep moving my current bookmark from novel to novel -- a strange thing for me! Typically I always switch them out. :)

It's a watercolor painting of San Gimignano, Italy; I bought it at a little shop in the medieval town. And of course, since it's one of my favorites, I accidentally sat on it a few days ago... now it's bent. :( But I guess that just gives it more character!

Until now I used a recipe from some bakery, because I always use these or train tickets.
But then I remembered that I bought a bamboo-bookmark in Kyoto last month, which a a geisha handpainted on. It was supposed to be a present but now I will keep it and use it myself!

hey im marie im new here my bookmark has a book series called alice next door by judi curtain and i have a bookmark shaped like a cat lol

Hi Marie! Welcome to the site. Hope you have lots of fun here.

I'm now using my Macmillan Cancer Support magnetic bookmark right now. These are so useful I collect them everywhere I go.

booksloth: in every bookstore I'm looking at these magnetic bookmarks but never buy one because I always think they are to heavy to use them for such a fragile thing as a book. Maybe I'll give them a try next time.
I'm using a cute bookmark: There is a little boy lying in his treehouse at night, having a torch and reading a book. He has a blanket over his head and a big pack of books next to him. on the back of the bookmark there are stars and a moon on a lightblue underground. on top it has a little rope. I like this one.

#49 Maybe the ones you've seen are heavy. I'd hate to influence you into buying something you can't use but the many I've bought are quite light and perfect for marking, not only your page, but your line too, if you want to. And they don't drop on the floor and get lost every time you take the book out of your handbag.

Currently in the book that I am reading I am using a post it note and an initial book mark. The initial book mark is on nice piece of thread or yarn (not exactly sure) and at one end is my initial and the other end has a crown. The yarn is cream and the metal ends are a brown.

My husband gave me a bookmark with a really hot guy on it. LOL He has his shirt open with nicely defined six-pack abs......(the guy on the bookmark, not my husband). haha

I'm using an old playing card from a 1960s deck. It has a very cute drawing of a kitty cat with big eyes, surrounded by yellow, hot pink and blue flowers. Very mod. I've found that playing cards are a perfect size to use with mass market paperbacks.

Right now I'm simply using a scrap of paper where I have scribbled down a quote I liked from a previous book.

thanks alot Booksloth im sure i will love it here

i changed my bookmark. i made my own. it has a bowtie on the top left corner in shades of green. then there are polka dots all of it with light green dots, dark blue dots, and dark green dots. it is an index card. i made 3 others, too.

My future sister-in-law made me a bookmark for Christmas last year. It's cross stitched, and says "You can never have too many books." So true. I use that for mass markets, since it's small. For trades and hardcovers, I usually use a freebie bookmark I got from Paul's Used Books in Madison, WI, where my bff works. I have a variety of fun bookmarks with tassels that I love (HSM, Twilight, HP...), but I can't really use them since we got our kittens. The tassels are quickly destroyed if I leave my book sitting anywhere they can reach it! Rodney likes to chew on paper, too, so books definitely never get left sitting around anymore.