Bookmarks -- Describe One You're Currently Using

I like to make bookmarks that either match the colors of the cover, or reflect the theme of the book. Currently, one of the books I'm reading is "The Living Reed" by Pearl S. Buck. It is a novel about Korea. I came across a free postcard advertising an event in Manhattan at the Korea Society. I turned this postcard into a bookmark.

Bought, homemade, any and every kind, I'd love to hear about yours! Thank you in advance! :)

Thats a great idea & I really like the postcard bookmark. I am currently using a metal butterly that slips over the pages to mark & has pink & purple ribbon off 1 tip. That is the main one I use. I also have a cute monkey that hangs from the page you are reading. It make me smile when I open the book :)

Mine are usually whatever's close- post-its, ticket stubs, scraps of paper, etc.

On this occasion, though I had a Les Miserables (the musical) ticket stub, and since I am reading Les Miserables, its now my bookmark :)

A receipt from UPS from when I recently faxed something.

I have (what I consider) is the best bookmark EVER - it's called a 'Bungee' because it has this plastic marker, to mark your place in the book, and a slip-over stretchy strap - which goes around the book and holds it safe and secure as I lug it everywhere with me, in my bag, and stops me 1. losing my place and 2. bending my book out of shape.

A very dear friend in US sent me some as a present, and I can't use any other now - except at home where I use all these bookmarks from The Book Depository or BookMooch or my local used book store - who always slip a book mark into the book you buy; in the hope I guess of teaching good book etiquette. LOL.

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In this book is a bill from a department store. In my other book, it is a Q-tip I found on the counter when I was looking for something handy to use as a bookmark.

One is a bookmark with Marvin the Martian on it, with which to read Ray Bradbury. The other is a bookmark from Border's, with which to read The Two Towers.

I just press a button on my Sony Reader and it saves the page for me. The icon is a little dark triangle (folded corner) shape. Not pretty but extremely functional, and I can save as manay pages as I want, within or between books.

There was a post on this same topic a few months back...I wish to bring it forward because it hard some really good ones...someone even mention a strip of bacon!! LOL

currently i am using a paperclip...works good, never falls out of place. ;)

sigh... Sony Reader... sigh...

(how long 'til Christmas?)

I didn't notice my bookmark until after reading this thread. I am reading The Man Who Lives With Wolves, and my bookmark is a scrap of advertisement from the Great Wolf Lodge. :D

I'm using a bookmooch bookmark :)

Thanks so much, #2-12. #6, the Q-tip made me LOL. I think a couple people mentioned "bookmooch" -- I don't know what this is.

#3 -- cool! -- I never read the book, but I have listened to the original Broadway recording about 500 times, at least. I never saw it on stage. Did you love it?

#2 -- reading about your monkey made me smile too. Thanks for your comment about my bookmark :), but allow me to elaborate:

I cut the postcard in half, then measured the two pieces up against a standard size bookmark. I taped the two pieces together lengthwise, and then cut it down accordingly. I do that a lot -- cut a postcard in two and turn it into a bookmark by cutting and scotch-taping.

Bookmooch is a wonderful thing: http://bookmooch.com/

Hi BarkingMatt :), and thank you!

#13 - I did love it. I wanted to see it again from the moment it ended.

I typically use paint sample cards from Lowes. They are the perfect size and free!

In one of the books I'm currently reading("Sky of Stone" by Homer Hickam) I'm using a bookmark I got for free. It is a product of the American Museum of Natural History, and it says, among other things, to CHECK OUT THE UNIVERSE!

Most of the time I just use a Post-It. I do love using postcards, when I can find them.

A Make-a-Wish charity bookmark with a funny face with blue woolly hair on the top.
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> 19: Post-It always leave a glue residue - not much, but it could still be irritating.

At the moment I'm using a cigarette paper - I know : I'm terrible.

At the moment, I'm marking my place in Tess of the D'urbervilles with a postcard depicting what I imagine was originally an advertising poster for the film The House of Fear, starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. It pains me a little as being rather a clash, but I'm too lazy to hunt out anything more appropriate.