Question to the physical book readers here, what do you use as bookmark?
I currently got a paper bookmark but don’t like it to be honest.
I use whatever is around… a receipt, a square of TP, a cat’s whisker once. I have a bunch of bookmarks but they’re never around when I need them (and I always forget to grab one when I grab a book off the bookshelf).
A sticker of cute dogs in space suits and the caption “we want fully automated intergalactic luxury gay space communism” because it reminds me of Ian M. Banks - also gets a laugh out of people 😁
Many years ago, I fell from the stairs due to a diabetic episode. I was kept in a coma for a few days. When I woke up I had this id bracelet on my arm. I still use it as a bookmark till this day.
I don’t. I just look at the page I’m on when I’m done reading and then open it to that page when I come back.
Came here to say this, thinking I’d be the only one. If I can’t remember the exact page I enjoy thumbing through and skimming sections til I get to where I left off. Most of the time though I just open up to where I left off and continue
Yup, the book tends to remember about where it was last opened anyways. Sometimes I memorize the page number to be sure.
Book Darts! I’m typically reading for research and writing and the book darts are great for coming back to the right sentence when I’ve stopped off. I’ll leave them in long-term if I’m swapping between edited volumes—I’ve got a tin of 100, so it’s no problem if I leave a few within books here and there. I typically add one to the first page whenever a new book comes home. If I haven’t got one already placed or I start reading while out and about I dog-ear.
I fold the corner of the page that I stopped on.
YOU MONSTER!!!
How do you find the courage to do that? For me that would feel like a crime punishable by death.
I hate seeing people abuse their books in horrendous ways, but maybe I’m just overly OCD.
I see it as a sign of a well loved book. Having said that, I wouldn’t do it to a library book or someone else’s book.
Some cardboard advertisement card I got with a shirt I ordered online.
I have a probably too large and pedantic collection of cardboard bookmarks, some bought in remote cities, some given to me as gifts, some that went included inside other books. I even have a real chinese Yuan/Rembimbi bill that I got from a friend, long dead.
Sometimes I even use napkins and buy receipts and pieces of torn newspaper.
I fold any piece of paper into one of those dog-ear corner bookmarks. I’ve got dozens around, made of everything from sticky notes to receipts to a parking ticket. They way I do it has a line going down the middle on one side that I use to show me which side of the page I’m on.
@ModernRisk a drawing my daughter made on a ripped piece of construction paper. It was her idea to use it as a bookmark.
A bookmark… one of these magnetic ones (although you need to careful; some of them are too thick and leave actual marks on the pages).
I have a bunch of magnetic bookmarks, I’m usung mainly them because thise don’t fall out accidentally
This is what I use. My cat decided that every other type of bookmark was a toy–I would pick up my book each evening and had to find my place all over again. The magnetic bookmarks were the only ones she didn’t pull out of my books
Small sticky notes. That allows me to bookmark at a specific sentence rather than just the page.
I don’t like honest bookmarks as well. A proper bookmark should be mean-spirited and lie to me, so that I’ll never find my place again!
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