Bookmarks or turned down pages or...?

[Purple Poppy]

I have a huge collecton of bookmarks. I just can't resist them, although I guess at any one time there are only half a dozen in use. But it annoys me to see pages turned down at the corners. What do others do about keeping the page marked?

[Sofia]

I usually use whatever piece of paper is close by...old receipt, atm slip, even a napkin (clean one) I shudder at turned down pages!

[madcow]

Anything that is to hand be it a bus ticket, till receipt or scrap piece of paper.

[Lilywhite]

I will use anything rather than turn down pages.... OMG!! I hate that! It really annoys me to find library books with folds on nearly every page because loads of people do it... OK, I will stop being obsessive now :roll:

[pontalba]

I too hate to see dog earred pages.../shiver/ I have many book marks, and lots of free ones that Amazon sends with books (adverts of course) and then a bunch from the second hand book store.

[princessponti]

I have loads of bookmarks but I don't know where any of them are! I guess I'm a bit disorganised!! I buy them, then lose them usually after one book!! ..I tend to use scraps of paper, or whatever is to hand. ...and.. (cover your ears) I turn down the corners or use the dustcover if need be!! - gasp -

[Sugar]

(cover your ears) I turn down the corners or use the dustcover if need be!! - gasp -

:eek2: :icon_eek: I can almost forgive you the dustjacket - I have been known to do that on a slim hard back, but...but...but...fold down the corners? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Renniemist]

I would never turn down the corners of a book. :angel_not:

I have lots of bookmarks but tend to stick with just one for a long time. The one I am using at the moment is a bit tatty and the top is missing but it works well for me. It will probably need to disintegrate before I stop using it.

[princessponti]

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[Icecream]

That face is scary Princess. like you i had loads of bookmarks, but don't know where they are. I usually leave the book open, or stick something in close to hand. Bookmarks on Christmas list..!

[princessponti]

I think we should get bookmarks on bits of string that we can wear in our sleeves like childrens gloves... second thoughts... I don't think that'll work! Where do they all go, that's what I want to know!!

[Purple Poppy]

They're like pens and pencils, and socks in the wash, and a pair of scissors when you need one! You know there's loads of them within spitting distance, but they just melt away into thin air.

I have to say that occasionally I too have turned the dust jacket into the book, :hide: but very rarely. No wonder people are finding bus tickets and receipts in their library books, but careful folks, its too dicey to leave receipts with personal info on these days. We should maybe stick to bookmarks, even just print off the ones from this forum that Kell produced.

Alternatively, I am willing to part with some of mine....name a town in uk...I've probably got it!!:o

Susanna :006:

[Maureen]

:eek: :banghead: :7_mad: We had a similar thread to this ....and , I believe, one member admitted to even using bits of bacon rind for a bookmark.

[~V~]

ha ha ha bacon rind

i never turn down corners and have now trained anybody who reads my books not to do it either. i never leave books face down and open either

as to bookmarks, i have one that i've been using for about ten years (talk about obsessive), but it's one of those marvellous magnetic ones so it never gets lost

[Acesare*]

I used to turn down page corners until I borrowed a load of books (NEVER Turn down pages on someone else's books) and was sent a friendship bracelet thing which I started to use to mark my pages.

[everydayxangels]

i'm horribly geeky, and I use a colored notecards, put the title up on the top, the date started on the next line, and then the pages i ended on each night before bed, and then on the very last line, the date finished. that's my bookmark. and then to add to that extreme geekiness, I put the bookmarks/cards in a card container alphabetically.

buuuuut. as geeky as i am.... i have never turned down a corner of a book page. atleast not for a really long time.

[Purple Poppy]

Hi Everydayxangels, I don't believe I have welcomed you to the board as I was away at the time. Welcome and enjoy.

I don't think it's geeky but it reminds me of my kids bringing their reading books home from school. Every night we would listen to them read and then write down how far they had got, and sign it.

I think you are just very efficient and like to keep tabs on things (sorry...no pun intended). I just write down the name of the finished book (and author) in a book I keep for the purpose.

Susanna

:006:

[Inver]

I never turn down the corners. Always use a bookmark/bookstring and encourage my boys to do so too, but buying them different ones when I buy them a book as a pressie. Also annoys me when I see hubby putting his book facedown:irked: instead of putting his bookmark in it (which is usually at the side of it):motz: . Love the bookstrings a bookcrosser in Canada sent me when I swapped books with her and use them a lot.

Good thread this PP :mrgreen:

[Liz]

Turn down the corner of a page? I could never do that to a book. I have quite a few bookmarks - those arty ones that you get from art picture shops and also the black & white pictured ones. However, I never use them. I end up sticking them to my walls with Blu-Tack. For a bookmark I use a folded over yellow Post-It note. I've had it for about 18 months, so it's looking a bit dog-eared.

[Kell]

i'm horribly geeky, and I use a colored notecards, put the title up on the top, the date started on the next line, and then the pages i ended on each night before bed, and then on the very last line, the date finished. that's my bookmark. and then to add to that extreme geekiness, I put the bookmarks/cards in a card container alphabetically. I keep a card index full of the books I've read in alphabetical order with all the info (ISBN, publisher, date published, No of pages, where I got it, etc) & then when I'm done with the book, i rate it & whop it in the right place. I'm so pleased I'm not the only one that does this kind of thing - LOL!

I don't use them as bookmarks, right enough, but it does help me keep track of what i read, when I read it & what i thought of it, as well as whether or not I still have the book.

[Liz]

I don't keep a card index, but I do have a book where I keep track of all the books I've read, date started and date finished and also a few words on what I thought of the book.

Keeps me quiet, I suppose.

[Purple Poppy]

This card index thing is making me think. It's so efficient. I am full of admiration. But apart from the fact I probably don't read enough to warrant using the system, I think, alas, I would forget to keep it up to date!! :blush:
Susanna :006:

[Sugar]

I have tried in the past to keep diaries, real ones or reading ones, but I end up getting behind and forgetting to add things. I now have an msn space created with a couple of friends and we all put the details of our reads on there. I list the title, author, a rating and the date I finished it. As I tend to only read one book at a time, and then as soon as I have finished one I start the next the end date is really the only one I need to keep.

Of course, this years version of this info is now in my book blog on here as well, and I quite often add comments about the books as well, so I am getting better!

[SmartBomb]

Book prudes, the lot of you!

I'm a devout corner-turner and spine bender. In fact, the first thing I do with a new book is flip to the middle and bend the spine riiiiight back. Personally, the book is just the medium, and I tend to let mine get 'lived' in very quickly, leaving them battered, written in (including impromptu shopping lists across pages) and generally loved to death.

Bookmarks are just another way of the system getting you to spend your money. Viva la revolucion, etc...

[Louiseog]

Feel better now, I'm a destroyer, none of you would want to have my books after me.
Do look after lends though!

[Pilgrim]

I bend the corner and if it's a discussion and the book isn't Gutenberg Project text where I can copy and paste into Excel or Word and make notes, I write in the book. Even my Palm pilot ebooks indicate that the corner is turned down when I bookmark. Sometimes I leave it open, which isn't good for the binding or just remember the page number.

[Renniemist]

Ha! Ha! I used to remember the page number. Then I got older. :mrgreen:

[Pilgrim]

Ha! Ha! I used to remember the page number. Then I got older. :mrgreen:

LOL. I have to stop on a symmetrical or some easy number to remember to do it.

[Sugar]

Book prudes, the lot of you!

I'm a devout corner-turner and spine bender. In fact, the first thing I do with a new book is flip to the middle and bend the spine riiiiight back. Personally, the book is just the medium, and I tend to let mine get 'lived' in very quickly, leaving them battered, written in (including impromptu shopping lists across pages) and generally loved to death.

Bookmarks are just another way of the system getting you to spend your money. Viva la revolucion, etc...

Feel better now, I'm a destroyer, none of you would want to have my books after me.
Do look after lends though!

I bend the corner and if it's a discussion and the book isn't Gutenberg Project text where I can copy and paste into Excel or Word and make notes, I write in the book. Even my Palm pilot ebooks indicate that the corner is turned down when I bookmark. Sometimes I leave it open, which isn't good for the binding or just remember the page number.

Someone pass the Valium, please?

:catsick: (I wanted a smilie showing I had the shakes, this is the closest I can find at short notice!)

[Acesare*]

Oh I still enjoy breaking the spines - I love that little crackle and the feeling of power MWWWWAHAHAHAHA! Bending the corners is more effort than just chucking the bookmark in though (I'm lazy)

[Purple Poppy]

Originally posted by Acesare.

Oh I still enjoy breaking the spines - I love that little crackle and the feeling of power MWWWWAHAHAHAHA! Bending the corners is more effort than just chucking the bookmark in though (I'm lazy)


You are one wicked girl Acesare!!! But I like you! :irked:

PP :006:

[Snowflake]

I generally try and roughly remember where I was in the book..I don't like using bookmarks as they always fall out onto the floor (especially when you're standing up commuting and land in a puddle or something) or get lost in the bedclothes when reading at night!

Ohhhh...I hate it when people turn pages down...:censored:

[Maureen]

Now I have a cool, original, super nice one, in my favorite colour (different shades of it to be exact!) , given to me by a dear friend for my birthday!

[Acesare*]

Oh yeah? That's nice. Anyone we know? Is your dear friend a wonderful, lovely lovely person?

[Maureen]

yep a lovely person. Well know too. Definately an artistic person.

[Acesare*]

I like this page of this thread :smile2:

[Maureen]

:) :friends0: :)

[dogmatix]

Books should looked loved, just don't get any food stains in them. That is gross.

I will use a book mark if one is handy and I do have a few but I'm not afraid to turn down a corner either. Spine cracking? That's up to the book. If it happens, it happens.

[Kiwimellon]

I use a bookmark. I can not stand it when I start with a brand new book and it doesn't look brand new when I finish. Just the thought of bending down the corner of a page makes me feel a bit sick! I could probably be considered a bit obsessive compulsive about books. My little sister borrows my books a lot and she always seems to do something to them. Whether it's getting food on the cover or breaking the spine. And I just cringe when I see her lay a book down spread open. It's silly of me but I just can't help it!

[Acesare*]

I'm obsessive compulsive about other stuff (I scored 9/20 on the medical scale, which is enough for a diagnosis apparently), so I completely understand - I still love to crack that spine though!

[princessponti]

I agree whole heartidly that books need and deserve to be loved, and as a result look loved. If a book looks new to me then I feel like it hasn't acheived it's destiny, it needs to be read and bent and held and carried around - it needs to live! Lived things get crinkled around the edges!! I hate having beautifully kept books, it makes me feel sad, I'd much rather the spine was cracked and the pages rumpled; I can feel the satisfaction of the book that it has been read and truely enjoyed!! :) ...just think of the days when you have truely lived and enjoyed yourself, did your hair stay perfect - I think not!!...

[JudyB]

At the moment I'm using a gift tag from last year's Mother's Day present from my daughter. It's flower shaped - bright pink and yellow (won't lose that will I?). I do have a proper bookmark - lace from Venice (holiday present from parents) but haven't seen it for a while - may be it's in a book I've abandoned . . .

[Janet]

I have a metal 'J' which hooks over the top of the page, bought for me as a present, but... I hate it, because it damages the pages!

I've got several bookmarks on the go. One is a laminated picture of my children, one is a Christmas card that was pretty, one is a 'business card' from a hotel I stayed in... I normally use something random like that, because I'm forever losing them! :blush:

[Purple Poppy]

I use bookmarks. I have a huge collection of leather place names bookmarks. but I also have about half a dozen pretty ones, woven etc. I have also just started using some gorgeous metal petal shaped ones, that slip onto the page. These were a christmas pressie from a friend.

[madcow]

At the moment I am using a metal 'horse' bookmark that i bought for myself in Colmar. But usually its a receipt or beermat or anything else i can get my hands on. I like my horse one cos' it looks pretty on the outside of the book (I know I'm a sad cow!)

[kitty]

I always used a bookmark before, but the last year or so I havent. At the moment I am using a clothes tag. Sounds weird but that must have been the closest thing at the time.

[Lilywhite]

I'm using a witchy one that my mum bought me in Colmar.... apparantly she saw it and thought of me........ :)

[Kell]

I have a variety of "proper" bookmarks that I use at home, including a set of Kelley Armstrong ones (a gift from a very good buddy) and a beautiful knot-work one from another friend. In my "portable" paperbacks, though, I use those little removeable sticky index tabs, as i'm able to stick them exactly where I finish on the page and they don't fall out in my bag - very handy!

[dogmatix]

I fold over the page.......I know I know you don't have to tell me:irked:

[Louiseog]

I fold over the page.......I know I know you don't have to tell me:irked:
and me
In fact middley made a bookmark at school for a parent, every other child made one for their mum, he made one for dad as he uses a bookmark and I don't!!!:motz:

[Maureen]

Ha Ha I have a nice handmade one in my fav colour !:jump: :jump:....tks to Jo!

[Liz]

I use a yellow Post-It note with the sticky bit folded and stuck down so it doesn't spoil the pages.
I've been using it for the past two years or more.

[kernow_reader]

I fold over the page.......I know I know you don't have to tell me:irked:

You do *what* ???!! I cannot believe this?? That is a cardinal sin dogmatix and, Louise, is it? I believe you're guilty too? Tsk, Tsk. Shame on you both! :irked:

I have collected bookmarks for years so now have a wonderful choice
ranging from paper to leather to metal. (My oldest bookmark is 23 years of age).

I recently bought Metal Petals as I like to mark out interesting passages when I read them so I can either re-read them or copy them into my Quote Book at a later date. Sad, I know, but hey. . .that's my life. :lol:

[Icecream]

I lost all my bookmarks when I moved, and was using bits of paper/post or anything lying around, but I recently found them, including my favourite one which is rather cute and nice girly colours.

[Janet]

What are metal petals? Two people have mentioned them and I'm curious!

[Kell]

What are metal petals? Two people have mentioned them and I'm curious!They come in all different shapes - i used to have pointy ones shaped like arrow heads. In a way, they're a bit like paper clips, in that they're shaped metal that has a hole in the middle with another bit of metal coming down the way, so that you can slipthem onto the page at the appropriate place.

[Gyre]

I have a bookmark which I bought in Belfast, actually on the day I was leaving to return to Glasgow. Its five years old now and a bit worse for wear but I still use it, its covered with sellotape and various pictures. My friend bought me a beautiful silver bookmark with my name on it, but it is so nice, I don't like using it, I keep it in its box...

:mrgreen:

[Liz]

My friend bought me a beautiful silver bookmark with my name on it, but it is so nice, I don't like using it, I keep it in its box...
:mrgreen:

I'm like that with things sometimes. I have a lovely pen my nan gave me a few years ago - it's still in its case.

I'm like that with mugs, as well. If they look pretty then they go on the bookshelf to be looked at and to gather dust.

[Pilgrim]

I think I miss bookmarks the most...there's this icon on the bottom of the Palm pilot screen that looks like a page with the corner turned and I press it to save the page.

[KW]

Right now I'm using Gerard Butler, Phantom of the Opera bookmarks I got during the Phantom movie craze.
Usually, I use a reciept.
KW

[Gyre]

:doh: I didn't realise that Gerard Butler was in 'Phantom of the opera', then I read KW's post and everything fell into the place, so thanks KW!

[Kell]

I think I miss bookmarks the most...there's this icon on the bottom of the Palm pilot screen that looks like a page with the corner turned and I press it to save the page.The Palm Pilot encourages page-folding????? AAaarrgghh! :lol: Now, I would prefer a pretty bookmark icon, that way I wouldn't have to feel guilty (because, strangely, I would, if I had to click an icon for folding the corner down...)

[Michelle]

Right now I'm using Gerard Butler, Phantom of the Opera bookmarks I got during the Phantom movie craze.

He is sooo gorgeous in that film! :mrgreen:

[Purple Poppy]

Kell said, agahst!

The Palm Pilot encourages page-folding?????

I don't think its about encouraging...it's about lack of space, so an icon has to be very simple and easily recognised.:)

[KW]

He is sooo gorgeous in that film! :mrgreen:
I agree -- superb chemistry between them all.
How many times could I have LEAPT from my seat to jump onto the screen with him???????????????????
KW

[Ronny]

I collect postcards and match them up with a book (by theme, color, setting) everybook has it's own card/mark. Weird I know but so fun.

[Purple Poppy]

Nicky said

I collect postcards and match them up with a book (by theme, color, setting) everybook has it's own card/mark. Weird I know but so fun.


Hey. Thats a really clever thing to do. How original are you!:)

[Ronny]

It started purely by accident:)

[Purple Poppy]

A lot of good things do. Its like the saying, the simple things are the best!;)

If you read one of Stuart McBride's books, Kell or I will send you a postcard of Aberdeen!

[Pilgrim]

The Palm Pilot encourages page-folding????? AAaarrgghh! :lol: Now, I would prefer a pretty bookmark icon, that way I wouldn't have to feel guilty (because, strangely, I would, if I had to click an icon for folding the corner down...)

I know! It's like thumbing their nose at bibliophiles...but the the straw that breaks the camel's back may be google. Much as I love e-books, it's kind of sad. I lost a Tower Records recently that was fun to browse and maybe the library's next:

The Sunday Times
January 21, 2007
Google plots e-books coup
Dominic Rushe

GOOGLE and some of the world’s top publishers are working on plans that they hope could do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music...

Ben Vershbow of the Institute for the Future of the Book, a US think-tank, said: “Google seems to be simultaneously petting the industry and saying everything is going to be all right if they just let everything go, but at the same time telling them: ‘We have you guys up against the wall’.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2557728,00.html

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/images/trans.gifBut you're right Purple Poppy, it might be difficult to create bookmark that was very recognizable.

[Kell]

A lot of good things do. Its like the saying, the simple things are the best!;)

If you read one of Stuart McBride's books, Kell or I will send you a postcard of Aberdeen!True - perfect excuse for us to foist McBride on another willing vicitm, Nicky - we can heartily recommend him and you'd get a nice little flurry of postcards from us in the Frozen North!

[Ronny]

True - perfect excuse for us to foist McBride on another willing vicitm, Nicky - we can heartily recommend him and you'd get a nice little flurry of postcards from us in the Frozen North!

Tempting :), what is the book you'd recommend to start with?

[Kell]

Start with the 1st one - Cold Granite, then follow it up with the 2nd, Dying Light. He's only written the 2 so far & I'm ddesperately waiting for another!

[Purple Poppy]

Kell said

He's only written the 2 so far & I'm ddesperately waiting for another!
As are half the population of Aberdeen! My other half is chomping at the bit. He can't wait. I haven't read the second one yet, cos he grabbed it first!

[muggle not]

currently, I am using a bbokmark that amazon put in with one of my book orders. However, i am anticipating a nice unique bookmark from someone on the forum. :)

[everydayxangels]

my bookmark, I use a notecard. I have pretty assorted colors of ROYGB and pick a color that matches the cover of the book the most. I put the title and who its by on the top line, date started on the next, and the page i end on every night. then on the bottom, date finished. Once I have a book completed, I file the notecard alphabetically by title :blush: i'm a geek. i am aware of this.

[Janet]

my bookmark, I use a notecard. I have pretty assorted colors of ROYGB and pick a color that matches the cover of the book the most. I put the title and who its by on the top line, date started on the next, and the page i end on every night. then on the bottom, date finished. Once I have a book completed, I file the notecard alphabetically by title :blush: i'm a geek. i am aware of this.
Awww - I think that's a lovely thing to do. :D

[Icecream]

Me too..

[Acesare*]

currently, I am using a bbokmark that amazon put in with one of my book orders. However, i am anticipating a nice unique bookmark from someone on the forum. :)

Someone still hasn't informed someone on their preferences for said bookmark ;)

[thebottle]

I use a small leather bookmark. When it was new it would stain the pages if I left it in for over a week without moving it, but now it doesn't anymore.

[mrstrecool]

I make bookmarks on the computer with pictures of things I like on, eg David Boreanaz!!!!! My local bookshop always puts a free bookmark in with their details on when you buy a book so I've also got a few of those.

[Wraith*]

My expired ID card is jammed in my current book at the moment lol

[Sofia]

my daughte printed out a mulan bookmark that I am using at the moment

[Polka Dot Rock]

When I was little, I had to be restrained from buying bookmarks as I couldn't see one without wanting it :lol:

To be fair, I still use at least three of them! There's a pretty fish one (it's actually an illustration from a children's book but I can't remember what it is) and two Garfield ones: an Aquarius one and, one of my faves, a purple bookmark with a chunk 'bitten' out of it with Garfield thinking "The book's not bad, but the bookmark is DELICIOUS".

My favourite bookmark is one I picked up years ago in Exeter when I bought Maggie O'Farrell's After You'd Gone. It's a very thin holographic one, with a circle at the top that shows a 3D rose. I'm weirdly attached to it, I think, because of After You'd Gone - I was so blown away by it, that the bookmark is kind of a reminder of incredible some writing can be. I really worry if I can't find it!

At the moment, I'm into orange for some reason. I'm using one my mum made for me when I was little, out of a Frosties box (strange, we didn't eat Frosties!) that was covered with orange paper and has Animals of Farthing Wood stickers that spell 'AMY'. The other is my newest one, a leather(ette) one from the Eden Project.

Isn't it strange how you randomly choose which ones you regulary use? I have others but I tend to use the same ones over and over again.

[Wraith*]

I need an actual bookmark. Can one just get them from Smiths? I've seen them in Waterstones but I begrudge paying £5.99 for something like that.

[Polka Dot Rock]

They should be miles cheaper than that! Go to a charity shop and they usually sell new ones there, like at Oxfam. Or make one from the lid of a cereal packet, glue, coloured paper and stickers. Then say your nephew/sister/creepy kid from next door made it for you.

[Rosie]

my bookmark, I use a notecard. I have pretty assorted colors of ROYGB and pick a color that matches the cover of the book the most. I put the title and who its by on the top line, date started on the next, and the page i end on every night. then on the bottom, date finished. Once I have a book completed, I file the notecard alphabetically by title :blush: i'm a geek. i am aware of this.

What a good idea! :) I have two bookmarks I'm using at the moment - there are countless others in various drawers and boxes around the house - but my two favourites are one with pressed flowers inside a plastic cover with a dangling tassle that the cat likes to play with and the other a leather one I bought years ago at Bosworth Battlefield in Leicestershire.

[Wraith*]

Everyone would know that wasn't true as I'm allergic to children.

Hmmm bookmark shopping this afternoon methinks.

And it's nearly payday too :D

I really want a Wraith bookmark :D

[Kell]

Everyone would know that wasn't true as I'm allergic to children.LOL - i use this on a regular basis as a way of getting out of every havnig to be around sprogs. :lol:

[Acesare*]

I really want a Wraith bookmark :D

I could sell you a handmade Wraith bookmark, although I really need to get on and finish the ones from the competition (makes mental note to stop spending so much b**dy time online!)

[Pilgrim]

my daughter printed out a mulan bookmark that I am using at the moment

I like this idea of printing them out. And if I could use both sides of the paper, it would be even better. That would take care of the thickness problem in paperbacks.

[Wraith*]

LOL - i use this on a regular basis as a way of getting out of every havnig to be around sprogs. :lol:

It's true whenever I'm around SKs nieces and nephew I break out in bad cases of brokeness...

I could sell you a handmade Wraith bookmark, although I really need to get on and finish the ones from the competition (makes mental note to stop spending so much b**dy time online!)

Is there anything you can't handmake?? :D

[Acesare*]

Is there anything you can't handmake?? :D

I can lend a hand to anything!

[Bunny]

I used to use the folded over post it not but now use a friends business card

[The Library Nook]

I use anything that is laying on my desk, post its, receipts, torn bits of scrap paper, take away menus- I am not fussy!

[Gyre]

I am using a very pretty one at the moment, thanks to PP...

:D

[Purple Poppy]

I am just experimenting basically Paula. I have lots of ideas, but I need practice to make them work. Glad you like them anyway.:)

Pp

[Freewheeling Andy]

Right now it's a British Airways "Change For Good" envelope. I suppose I should be feeling guilty for not giving money to the poor, but it's just the first thing that came to hand.

[Betty27]

At the moment I'm using a council tax bill! Very strange, but it happened to be the best thing around when I started reading my current book.

I also have a nice blue one with pretty embroidery, this one was given to me by a friend when she came back from her holiday in Turkey. Another I have (wondering where right now :dunno: ) is a metal petal. Only just learned in this thread what it's called even though I have one myself! Mine is in the shape of the letter B, my initial. My sister gave it to to me, and I really like the look of it, but it slightly damages the page sometimes.

Most of the time I use a postcard though and not even a themed one, but I like that idea, Ronny!

[sib]

Normally a bit of paper.

[Blossom]

I usually use anything that's lying around (often a used bus ticket). However, my friend owns a bookshop and was given a sample of something called a 'book thong'. She gave it to me. It's an alternative to a book mark: a thin string with beads on either end - I wouldn't have bought one, but do like it.

Kerri

[JudyB]

I usually use anything that's lying around (often a used bus ticket). However, my friend owns a bookshop and was given a sample of something called a 'book thong'. She gave it to me. It's an alternative to a book mark: a thin string with beads on either end - I wouldn't have bought one, but do like it.

Kerri

Glad you brought that up - kept meaning to ask if anyone had one. I bought a nice one from Llangollen craft centre but couldn't work out exactly how it works - had to give up with it in the end.

[Blossom]

The book thongs are really pretty and unusual, and are meant to be used like traditional bookmarks. The only drawback I can see is if you have a book with large dimensions, as the beads would get caught up in the pages...

Kerri

[Nici76]

I would never bend down the corner of a page in a book....and i use a lovely bookmark that my friend got me

[Icecream]

I have been doing something extremely bad since I have had Katie. I've been reading my book while feeding her, then just leaving it face down on the page on the armchair in the bedroom. It makes life easier than trying to mess with bookmarks with a baby.

[JudyB]

I would never bend down the corner of a page in a book....and i use a lovely bookmark that my friend got me

I won't buy a book or magazine if it has a crease in it. I like my publications to look good as new. However if anything does happen I then resign myself to them having a lived in look - this happens a lot to books that I take on holiday.

[lovesreading06]

I use a bookmark.

if i can't find one i use a recept or a bus ticket.

[caroline]

I never turn down the corner of the page.
I use a bookmark, normally a free card one from the library, failing that it could be a receipt, an envelope or something similar.

[Purple Poppy]

My daughter just sent me a new pewter bookmark of a fish for Mother's Day. It's gorgeous! :)


Pp

[wrathofkublakhan]

I've a whole box of business cards I never use, ideal for keeping place.

Also, I use the little paper sleeves they put around drinking straws!

[Purple Poppy]

WoKK said,
I've a whole box of business cards I never use, ideal for keeping place.

Also, I use the little paper sleeves they put around drinking straws



King of recycling LOL;)

[Michelle]

As a very tentative enquiry, would anyone be interested in paying a small amount for a Book Forum bookmark? I have considered it in the past, but I have to buy quite a few, and I need to know I could get back at least some of the money.

[pinkprincess]

I agree whole heartidly that books need and deserve to be loved, and as a result look loved. If a book looks new to me then I feel like it hasn't acheived it's destiny, it needs to be read and bent and held and carried around - it needs to live! Lived things get crinkled around the edges!! I hate having beautifully kept books, it makes me feel sad, I'd much rather the spine was cracked and the pages rumpled; I can feel the satisfaction of the book that it has been read and truely enjoyed!! :) ...just think of the days when you have truely lived and enjoyed yourself, did your hair stay perfect - I think not!!...

I totally agree with you thats how all the books I truly enjoyed looks like

[wrathofkublakhan]

As a very tentative enquiry, would anyone be interested in paying a small amount for a Book Forum bookmark? I have considered it in the past, but I have to buy quite a few, and I need to know I could get back at least some of the money.

For me, no.
However, I would buy one if the forum was in need of support.
Does that make sense?

[Michelle]

Yea, it does. :)

[kitty_kitty]

I have loads of book marks but cannot find them when i need them so tend to use bits of paper or post its with words on to look up or books to read, they are good if you are travelling as they are sticky as you cannot lose your page!!

I have a nice one of mill cats from the Hockney gallery.

I used to be alot more precious about my books until my step mum died then i thought life is too short, i was being careful with a book when i was in hospital with my stepmum, i had a book nearly read like new in a dust bag in my bag and i thought sod it!!! Life is too short to get upset over a book.

However i still will not lend my SIL any books as she destroys them and i cannot bend back corners or put them face down

[Icecream]

or put them face down

I did this with the Vampire's Seduction out of quickness while feeding Katie, but I promis to be careful with Karma. It is Purple Poppy's book. It still looked brand new when it arrived on my doorstep so I'm being extra careful with it, especially when handling the baby.:)

[Mbwun_Lily]

Use bookmarks ALL the time.

One of the bookstores puts one of their bookmarks in every book you buy from them - I have a huge collection of them now so there's NO excuse for dog-earing a book or laying it down open and flat.

I don't lend them out so I don't have to worry about how other people are going to treat my books.

/a pox on those who mistreat their books

[angerball]

Bookmarks for me too. I never dog-ear a page! :motz: My library usually has a stack of free bookmarks - though they haven't done that in a while.

A while ago, I was looking for a metal bookmark (or hookmark, I think they are called). There are some very nice looking ones out there, but they are so expensive. Maybe some day I'll get around to getting one. :mrgreen:

[aromaannie]

I never use to take that greater care of my books but since discovering green metropolis I am extra carefull with them. I use bookmarks and no longer break their spines.

[princessponti]

/a pox on those who mistreat their books


A little harsh! I don't want a pox!!! ...I only mistreat them a little, and it's only out of love!

[Louiseog]

I'm sure I've said this before but I devour books, don't treat them well at all although don't destroy them but I do lay them flat and rarely use a bookmark. I will probably be very spotty now!

[Mbwun_Lily]

I'm sure I've said this before but I devour books, don't treat them well at all although don't destroy them but I do lay them flat and rarely use a bookmark. I will probably be very spotty now!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Gyre]

I have a couple of bookmarks, here they are...:D

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o154/Pictures_073/Bookmark1.jpg

I have had this bookmark for years and I won't part with it, I have lost count how many times I have repaired it.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o154/Pictures_073/Bookmark2.jpg

This is the lovely bookmark that Purple Poppy made me, which I really love because it is so me.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o154/Pictures_073/Silverbookmark.jpg

This one was a present from my best friend for my 30th Birthday, its so pretty, I don't like using it, I just keep it in the box. It has my name on it, but I don't think you can see in the photo.

:D

[Louiseog]

Now they are gorgeous!
My son made a bookmark at school for Christmas presents for parents.
His said DAD (this would be the dad who reads nothing!!!! :motz: :motz: )

[Michelle]

My son made a bookmark at school for Christmas presents for parents.
His said DAD (this would be the dad who reads nothing!!!! :motz: :motz: )
Isn't that just typical of kids!! :lol:

[Captiva Dreaming]

I have a huge collecton of bookmarks. I just can't resist them, although I guess at any one time there are only half a dozen in use. But it annoys me to see pages turned down at the corners. What do others do about keeping the page marked?

Oh dear.... I have thought about this question - and quite honestly - if I have borrowed the book from the library or from a friend - I will treat it with the utmost care - cherish it almost, as I like my books to receive the same treatment when I lend a book.
However, after saying that, if it is a paperback - for holiday - say for instance, and I am at the beach (in the pool on a lilo) then I am afraid that If I am really into the book and cannot put it down for long - the corners do get turned down. *sigh*

My hardback books are all still in their prime condition, loving stored in a bookcase, but some of the others (only paperbacks) are dog-eared and are what I call, well loved after several reads. Sorry to admit this.
I guess I just get too involved and if I am doing the housework, with a book in hand:tong: its not always possible!
I always start off with such good intentions, and have lots of bookmarks scattererd around - but.....
you know what they say about good intentions..:lol:

[Laramie]

I have dozens of bookmarks, :readingtwo: but I never usually know where most of them are, :lol: so I just use a bit of paper or a random receipt or a tag or something!:)

[Moonchild]

I have dozens of bookmarks, :readingtwo: but I never usually know where most of them are, :lol: so I just use a bit of paper or a random receipt or a tag or something!:)


Same here!!

It's a real pet hate of mine to see pages turned down in a book. I'm really particular with my books and don't even break the spines when reading them. They all sit on my shelf with not a mark on them, looking as if they've never been read. I know, I'm too fussy :mrgreen: It really rags me when people borrow a book from me and it comes back all creased and dog eared - or worse still doesn't come back at all!

[kitty_kitty]

For my Harry Potter books i have one of those wizard moving cards (which you have to tilt back and forwards to make it move) which i got with a chocoalte frog easter egg years ago!!!!

Other than that i have some nice images of buddhas or pics from cards which i have turned into book marks as my book marks do tend to get a bit battered too.

[papillon]

OOOOOO NEVER, turn down pages, I love my books too much for that.:blush:
Bookmarks, paper scraps anything I can lay my hands on really.

[caroline]

I always use a Bookmark, never, ever turn down a page

[mrstrecool]

I nearly fainted when I saw the words "turned down pages"!!! :thud:
I can never, EVER turn down the pages, it's my pet hate. I like a nice bookmark, although sometimes I have to resort to an Iceland till receipt!

[Essexgirl]

Always bookmarks - even if just an odd scrap of paper. I hate it when I get library books where pages have been turned down, or even worse, someone has written comments etc. in them. My local library has started giving away bookmarks

[Liz]

I hate it when I get library books where pages have been turned down, or even worse, someone has written comments etc. in them.

I'm going to have to make a confession, guys.

I do sometimes annotate certain books which I am studying for English. :lurker:
I know this a pretty poor excuse, but I do go out and look for the shabbiest copy of the book I can find in a second-hand shop and use that for studying. Sometimes it is just a lot easier to annotate the book rather than write out great paragraphs of the text. That's no excuse, though, I know. :blush:

[Fay]

Always use a book mark.

When i studied English many moons ago, i had to make notes in my books - it was awful, my stomach sank when i had to underline stuff and write in the margins. I still feel guilty now I am thinking about it!!!!

[Stadi]

It completely depends on the book.
I don't dogear pages or write in library books of course, and even with most of my own books I prefer to use bookmarks.
I should have stacks of them but I always seem to lose them, which also brings me to my next problem.
When I'm (re-)reading one of my own paperbacks (I do bend the spine, just because that makes it easier to read xd) and I have to put the book away I try to find a bookmark, otherwise I just turn the page or even worse flip it over and lay it down like that. :blush:
With my hardcovers I always use bookmarks though, they're too expensive to replace hrhr.

[Purple Poppy]

Worldviewestates said

When i studied English many moons ago, i had to make notes in my books - it was awful, my stomach sank when i had to underline stuff and write in the margins. I still feel guilty now I am thinking about it!!!!


Me too!
Also I had to cut out the illustrations in some of my art books once (can't remeber why, but it was in the days before the internet). So I went out and got the cheapest art books I could find, but it still broke my heart!!

Pp

[Raelou]

I have to use bookmarks, hate tatty books,I do have a few because I always lose them and I used receipts if there's nothing else to hand,I have used money(from hubby's wallet:lol: )

[Icecream]

When I received Karma there was a handy little bookmark in the form of a note from Kell. I didn't need to look for a bookmark, but could start straight away. Thanks Kell.

I am now using a bookmark I got in church on Sunday with the three buildings (on one side) and names (on the other side), the church has inhabited over the years.

[Icecream]

I treated PPs Karma with the utmost care, and this taught me how to read a book without cracking the spin. Being a task previously alien to me, I started to do it out of habit with The Vanishing Act... , however I have cracked the spine just a little bit, as Katie is being fussy lately and I keep leaving the bookmark places or just have to put the book down quickly..

[Moonchild]

When I received Karma there was a handy little bookmark in the form of a note from Kell. I didn't need to look for a bookmark, but could start straight away.

And when I received it there was a little note from Icecream which I'm using as a bookmark :mrgreen:

[fireball]

Use bookmarks ALL the time.

One of the bookstores puts one of their bookmarks in every book you buy from them - I have a huge collection of them now so there's NO excuse for dog-earing a book or laying it down open and flat.
I don't lend them out so I don't have to worry about how other people are going to treat my books.

/a pox on those who mistreat their books

Damn my eyes! you get around old girl eh,? and I agree entirely and a double pox and anything else going.

It's a trusim : do right by books and they'll do right by you. I've books since I was sprog and you'd think I'd just bought 'em.

[sally906]

I have a huge collecton of bookmarks. I just can't resist them, although I guess at any one time there are only half a dozen in use. But it annoys me to see pages turned down at the corners. What do others do about keeping the page marked?


I use postcards and bookmarks. I really hate it when books that have been abused by having their pages turned over - poor little books I just want to give them a hug to make them feel better :hug:

Hoo Roo

Sally

[carm]

bookmarks definitely!!!!! especially the ones with the tassels:mrgreen:

[newwriter19]

lately ive just been folding down the page cause i havent been able to find a bookmark i like but recently i found some online that i printed so now ill use that :)

[fireball]

I wouldn't go around saying THAT to loudly round here newwriter19, http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y14/steelclaw32/08.gif try using used envelope or a piece cardbord from a tissue box even a sweet wrapper (non sticky kind), anything but bending pages down.! http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y14/steelclaw32/fear-1.gif There's always something somewhere. :lurker: ;)

One of the reasons I gave up going to the library, was of peoples lack of respect for books.

[Karen]

I always, always use a bookmark. I never turn down the corner of the page as that is a pet hate of mine. I hate borrowing books from the library to find the pages all dog-eared...it makes me so mad.

[clockwork frog]

I am a confirmed page folder! On the odd occasion that I do use a scrap of paper as a bookmark it usually ends up being used to write shopping lists/phone numbers on so doesn't last very long.
There are few things nicer than picking up an old, well used and slightly tatty book. You can't beat the smell and feel of a thoroughly 'lived in' novel. It has history, it's travelled, it's been enjoyed by many people before, it's seen many places and every mark or crease adds to the richness of the experience of reading it.
I find it strangely comforting to be absorbed by a good book, knowing that numerous strangers/friends have enjoyed the same journey through the book as I have, knowing the places they have stopped reading, the parts they have re-read.
As a physical entity, a well worn book can be as interesting as the words written on it's pages! Folded corners and all..

Regards,
Lee.

[princessponti]

I am a confirmed page folder! On the odd occasion that I do use a scrap of paper as a bookmark it usually ends up being used to write shopping lists/phone numbers on so doesn't last very long.
There are few things nicer than picking up an old, well used and slightly tatty book. You can't beat the smell and feel of a thoroughly 'lived in' novel. It has history, it's travelled, it's been enjoyed by many people before, it's seen many places and every mark or crease adds to the richness of the experience of reading it.
I find it strangely comforting to be absorbed by a good book, knowing that numerous strangers/friends have enjoyed the same journey through the book as I have, knowing the places they have stopped reading, the parts they have re-read.
As a physical entity, a well worn book can be as interesting as the words written on it's pages! Folded corners and all..

Regards,
Lee.


Here Here!!!

And a great big welcome to the forum Lee!! I share your view point to the last fullstop! I'll stand with you when the pies are flung in five...four...three...two...one...

[Paige]

I couldn't read half the posts here. I'm a bookmark girl 100%. If I see anyone folding the corners down I feel like I'm going to have a panic attack.

[clockwork frog]

Thank you princessponti, but I fear we are the unwashed minority!

Come on people, fold a corner down, just once, just a little. Let your book live, add some character to it's pages.

*(dons goggles, and stands against wall next to princessponti)*

;)

[Kell]

Come on people, fold a corner down, just once, just a little. Let your book live, add some character to it's pages.I did it a few times when I was a kid and didn't have a bookmark handy. I got into such trouble from my Mam when she discovered what I'd done, that I never forgot it and now balk at the thought of turning the corner.See what happens when a bookworm mother drives that into her daughter? LOL!

[happyanddandy]

I can take a folded down page or two as well :lol: - I don't do it to other peoples books though - husband also looks on with disapproval especially if I put my book face down and open!

[Paige]

I'm beginning to worry. Am I far too fussy with my books? I couldn't bare to fold a corner down and don't get me started on the spine. I can't bend the spine. If I accidently bend the spine of a book I'm gutted.

[JudyB]

I'm beginning to worry. Am I far too fussy with my books?


No I like my books good as new too!

[carm]

bookmarks-- absolutely bookmarks

[Icecream]

Katie was playing with my book today while I was in the bath. I'll let her off for bending the corners. If it was one of the older ones they would see my wrath:lol:

[kitty_kitty]

My mum just got me some lovley bookmarks from Whitby to use as bookmarks

[clockwork frog]

As a light hearted and slightly tongue in cheek way of adding fuel to an interesting debate, aimed at nobody in particular, please allow me to quote Professor Trefusis from Stephen Fry's 'The Liar', talking on this very subject.

["Books are not holy relics"] ["Think how many children are put off reading by people ticking them off whenever they turn a page carelessly. The world is so fond of saying that books should be "treated with respect". But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?"]


He-he. Go on... I say again, fold a corner! Let the next person to own your book enjoy it all the more, for the life YOU have added to it. :lol:

[Maureen]

I have just been given an extraordinarily beautiful book mark by my sister. It is made of metal, with a hook at one end attached to a triangle which has a beautiful swirly design, on top of which there is another jade-coloured triangle .

[wrathofkublakhan]

As a light hearted and slightly tongue in cheek way of adding fuel to an interesting debate, aimed at nobody in particular, please allow me to quote Professor Trefusis from Stephen Fry's 'The Liar', talking on this very subject.

["Books are not holy relics"] ["Think how many children are put off reading by people ticking them off whenever they turn a page carelessly. The world is so fond of saying that books should be "treated with respect". But when are we told that words should be treated with respect?"]


He-he. Go on... I say again, fold a corner! Let the next person to own your book enjoy it all the more, for the life YOU have added to it. :lol:

Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
I love it when a little research goes into a response in this forum.

Typically I'm a soda-straw-sleeve kinda guy.
I've been known to bend a corner (left or right, top or bottom - depending on where I am on the page) when I am toting my paperback about to lines at the bank, restaurants and the dreaded DMV.
A lot depends on the quality of the book (meaning cover, binding etc. not the content) - the higher end books I imagine having a longer cycle in passing through other people's hands as I donate to my library.

What I love about this thread on being dog-eared is that it is just one step away from the discussion on book-banning and book-burning in that it is indeed: about respect for the written word on any level.

I remember reading The Walking Drum (btw, does any one know how I can make that a link without posting the URL?) - where it's described that in the 12th century a man in England boasted having a library - containing 8 books.
Now and then I come across, in my reading; tales of people smuggling the Bible into Russia, cowboys in the Old West carting just three books because it was all they could carry (Plutarch, for example) or some strident activist demanding a book like Harry Potter be banned from a school library and I realize just how precious a book can be and to what lengths one will go to read. I'd feel pretty terrible if I contributed to the subtle destruction of a book if it became dear to a population.

OTOH - booksellers tear off the covers and toss into the trash the books they can't sell.

It's all a matter of balance, grasshopper.

[Janet]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant. (btw, does any one know how I can make that a link without posting the URL?)

OTOH - booksellers tear off the covers and toss into the trash the books they can't sell.
When you click on the globe/paperclip image, you post the URL into the box. Once it's put the writing in the reply box, you simply type 'Provender's world of chocolate bicycles...' (or whatever you want the link to say) without touching anything else - just type. Then click at the end of the line to carry on typing.

Does that help? If not, I'll PM you to show you what I mean...

Back O/T, my current books says something in the front about "did you buy this book without a cover? If so, it's been stolen and the writer won't get any royalties" or something similar. I've never seen that message before, but I guess that's what you're talking about above. The bookseller pulled the cover off to rend it unsellable, and someone pinched it out of the skip!

[Maureen]

OTOH - booksellers tear off the covers and toss into the trash the books they can't sell.



Ouch. They should give them to hospitals or public libraries.

[Polka Dot Rock]

OTOH - booksellers tear off the covers and toss into the trash the books they can't sell.

Slightly nerdy question but why do they do that? Is it so people can't firk them out of the rubbish and sell them as new?

[Janet]

Slightly nerdy question but why do they do that? Is it so people can't firk them out of the rubbish and sell them as new?
I did post about that a few posts above, because the book I'm reading mentions it inside - it's because the authors won't get royalties from unsold books.

I guess it happens when they change covers/increase prices.

[wrathofkublakhan]

Ouch. They should give them to hospitals or public libraries.

That'd be great.

I think the deal is that they send the covers back to prove they were not sold because of shipping costs.
It's a real shame when this happens but it does protect the author, insuring that royalties are honest.
Every time I've seen a huge bin full of these book without covers I wonder if the books were really that bad!
I had a friend who worked at a bookstore. He gave me a copy of Lonesome Dove without the cover. At the time I didn't know what it meant, but he harked it out of the bin knowing I might like it -- later on it went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and to star Robert Duvall in a great mini-series.

[clockwork frog]

WRATHOFKUBLAKHAN,

You're absolutely right about the quality of a book. A brand new, expensive hard back is a significant object and should be treated with the relevant respect. I guess my point of view stems from the fact that I very rarely buy new books. Almost all of my books come from friends, junk shops, charity shops, etc. and all are in some way worn/well used. (And my library contains a few more than 8 titles :D )
When people buy me new books as gifts it's invariably on a subject I am passionate about and do, almost, revere these books, I think because of the content and it's relevance to me and out of the pleasure of the gift.
The rest of my book collection are a little like good leather boots, in many ways. New ones are nice but a little stiff and awkward. I much prefer the comfy old worn ones!


Yes, it would be great if book shops could give away their unsold copies to hospitals, etc. but the large, commercial machine that is book publishing/selling would, no doubt, loose revenue and everyone in the chain, I guess, wants their piece of the income pie.

Regards.

[Icecream]

I like to respect my books and keep them in as good condition as I can but I generally read (in the day time) when Katie is feeding and it so much easier when she is being fussy to just put the book face down then pick it up again, rather than having to mess about with the book mark, then finding the page and place again By the time I have done that it is time to move the baby again.

Im currently reading 1984 in hardback, which I got from Folio so I am trying to keep it nice and it can be difficult manouvering it around the baby, then I am often tired or have to much to do i the evenings and theefore don't get any readng done if I haven't read in the day.

[Echo]

I like to respect my books and keep them in as good condition as I can but I generally read (in the day time) when Katie is feeding and it so much easier when she is being fussy to just put the book face down then pick it up again

I generally do the same thing with my books. If it's a paperback, I'll put it face down (gently) if I'm going to be coming back to it soon. If I'm through reading it for awhile, I'll find some sort of bookmark.

Hardcovers are easier because I can use the flap of the cover, but those sometimes bother me. So, I'll sometimes take them off and still use a bookmark. But I never fold down pages anymore...not in about 10 years. I'm one of those people who purchases all of their books and plans to re-read every single one. I want to keep them all in as good condition as possible...they're like my best friends!
:blush:

[clockwork frog]

[I want to keep them all in as good condition as possible...they're like my best friends!]

And just like your best friends, they should have their faults and little idiosyncratic features. It's why you love them so much! ;) ;)

[jenmck]

:blush: I'm embarrassed to say that I often turn down the pages of a book. I lose bookmarks all the time.
I saw this thread and laughed. I could hear my father scolding me for "abusing" my books.

[clockwork frog]

Jenmck,

Don't be embarrassed. Welcome to a subversive, dark, hidden but exciting world, where books are play things, they get read, they get damaged, they change owners... THEY LIVE!!!!!!

Come on, there must be more people that are part of this dark, underworld, enjoying an intimate but frowned upon relationship with their current book, but just haven't shown themselves yet..:lurker:


:lol: :lol:

[Icecream]

I currently have two bookmarks in my book as OH picked it up, so I was kind enough to put one in his place for him.

[Icecream]

The other day I finised 1984 ad I knew I had a short book pn the armchair in the bedroom. When I went to bed I read some of it then I stuck a leaflet about looking after babies'teeth inside it.

[Janet]

The other day I finised 1984 ad I knew I had a short book pn the armchair in the bedroom. When I went to bed I read some of it then I stuck a leaflet about looking after babies'teeth inside it.
Am I being dense? I don't understand your post. :blush: Do you mean you've now lost it?

ETA: Lightbulb moment - you mean you used the leaflet as a bookmark! Obvious really. :blush:

In my defense, I'm not feeling 100% atm and my head is fuzzy - sorry!

[clockwork frog]

I currently have two bookmarks in my book as OH picked it up, so I was kind enough to put one in his place for him.

TWO book marks in one book!!

Poor thing must feel like it's wearing a straight jacket... ;)

[Echo]

For the first time in a long time, I'm actually using a real bookmark! It's from a publishing company and I got it in an Amazon shipment about 5 years ago. Otherwise, it's usually just an old receipt or a scrap of paper.

[Kylie]

I never turn down pages on a book. If it's a second-hand book I might leave it face down for a short while (but I don't flatten it down). Otherwise I treat my books very carefully, especially if they're new. I'd like them to last me a long time.

On the subject of bookmarks, I bought a couple of nice ones last year. One is purple and kind of curvy. It has a string of beads attached to the top and has the word 'Faith' on it. It's hard to keep it still in the book though and I've come close to losing it a few times. In fact, I once spent about 5min on the train after everyone else had gotten off flipping seats over and shoving my hand down the side of the seat (eww!) trying to fish it back out from where I dropped it.

I also have another one that is a hooked metal bookmark with a Celtic cross and a bead or two hanging from it. A few days after I got it the cross fell off and I haven't reattached it yet so it's just a metal hook. At the moment though, I'm using a couple of bookmarks that someone gave me which have photos of different Sydney landmarks on them. Currently, it's a photo of the first cars to cross the Harbour Bridge in 1932 - hardly any traffic!

[wrathofkublakhan]

On the subject of bookmarks, I bought a couple of nice ones last year. One is purple and kind of curvy. It has a string of beads attached to the top and has the word 'Faith' on it. It's hard to keep it still in the book though and I've come close to losing it a few times. In fact, I once spent about 5min on the train after everyone else had gotten off flipping seats over and shoving my hand down the side of the seat (eww!) trying to fish it back out from where I dropped it.


Ew, indeed, lol.

This reminds me of my Bible which has a great solution. It's a red ribbon sewn into the binding so you can't lose it.
I wish all books had the convenience of this handy solution.

[Icecream]

Aye, many church type books have ribbons in them. great invention. I can't really imagine the congregation all frantically trying other methods of keeping their places in the communion books throughout a service!

[Hazeltree]

Where to start! Since I'm new I've read the whole thread!!! It's taken me ages and I have seen so many people's comments that I would like to quote - but now have no idea where they were!!! :lol:

I've never turned down corners on books, but I do put them down open. I must admit that I like the look of a well read book!!! The books on my shelf that look brand new are the ones that I've not enjoyed or haven't read yet!

I like the idea of using a bookmark - the benefits of being able to find your place instantly, but since I read in bed alot and often fall asleep over it, I rarely seem to have the bookmark in and then I lose it down the side of the settee or something when I am reading downstairs or something!

[Maureen]

I have just been given an extraordinarily beautiful book mark by my sister. It is made of metal, with a hook at one end attached to a triangle which has a beautiful swirly design, on top of which there is another jade-coloured triangle .

And I fell asleep while reading, and managed to break off the triangle. Fixed it with glue, but i don't have high hopes! :cry:

[NiceguyEddie]

I hate turned down pages. I normally just have a piece of paper as I'm forever losing bookmarks.

[Suzanne123]

I hate turned down pages! Always a bookmark :)

[whitegold]

I use bookmarks, receipts, random scraps of papers. I HATE when people dog ear their books haha.

[kb.marsh]

Bookmarks - but I'll use anything!