Bookmarks!

[Michelle]

Do you have a favourite bookmark, which goes from book to book.. or are you like me, and can never lay your hands on one?! I often grab whichever scrap of paper is closer, or sometimes I try to memorise my page number.. and always forget it! :roll:

[Louise]

I have two

An egyption one made out of papyrus that my mum got me from her hols and a red leather one, after that I resort to whatever is handy

[Freewheeling Andy]

I have a few. I've retained a card one from Dillons, back when it was Dillons, for nostalgia purposes. I've a card Stanfords one, for when I'm being a map geek. And then there's the random stuff. Which mainly seem to be the tear-off tags from aeroplane tickets. Plane tickets make great (if slightly clunky) bookmarks.

[Debbie]

I am a terrible reader, I commit the sin of *whispers* turning down the pages of paperbacks! I use the jacket to mark hardbacks. I almost never use a bookmark.

I once had a library book with a piece of bacon rind in it as a bookmark!

Debbie

[tidypijin]

Oooh Debbie - you were right to whisper - I am reluctant to loan people books because they do things like that; I once leant over to someone on a train and stopped them dog-earring a library book. (I need to get out more!!) Bacon Rind? Hmm I think that book ended up in our local library - did you have eggs with that? :mrgreen:

I always use bookmarks, I've got a pair of safari animals that hang over the back spine. Occasionally I use airline tickets or freebies from bookstores.

[Stuart]

I use the jacket on a hardback usually - I take the jacket off the book while I read it though - does anyone else do that?

I use anything that comes to hand for paperbacks - usually a Tescos receipt. :?

[Debbie]

You've shamed me - I now have a used lottery ticket as my bookmark! (Not a winning one obviously)

Debbie

[lilmissmolly]

lol, I usually use a scrap of paper or something like that

[Louise]

I use the jacket on a hardback usually - I take the jacket off the book while I read it though - does anyone else do that?

Yep I do that too

[BlackCherry]

I am reluctant to loan people books because they do things like that; I once leant over to someone on a train and stopped them dog-earring a library book. (I need to get out more!!) Bacon Rind? Hmm I think that book ended up in our local library - did you have eggs with that? :mrgreen:
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heh - i treat books terrible. they get turned down on the corners, read in the bath, chucked at people, covered in fingerprints...

i think a lot of the reason that people don't read somuch is that when they were kids they had people standing behind them yelling at them for turning pages too roughly. so they lost the joy of just READING the damn book, for fear of damaging it.

a turned down coner doesn't affect the story in the slightest. and surely it's the STORY that's important? we have books at thome that have been literally 'read to death'. the covers fall off, the spines are broken... but they're much loved and that's the most important thing.

[Acesare*]

As I always carry a book in my bag, they end up getting pretty tatty (stabbed by the hairbrush, bent at the edges), so with paperbacks I am a page turner - sorry, but only with my own books. I also take great pleasure in breaking the spine! :duck:

Hardbacks is different story all together. I remove the cover as soon as the book comes off the book shelf to stop it getting damaged, and I usually stick it in the gap so there are no gaps in the bookcase (weird aren't I). :spin:

I'll use whatever's available as a bookmark as long as it has some colour - I don't like receipts. In my last hard back I used a birthday card, and I like using postcards from friends (a little love before settling down to read and dreams of far off places).

I had a cat bookmark that hooks over the top of the book, but it kept threatening to bend so now it's decorating the TV.

Jo xx

[Freewheeling Andy]

Using a foodstuff as a bookmark (even bacon rind) is so flawed in two completely different respects that I find it hard to consider.

[Stuart]

Got to admit its hard to imagine using bacon lol.

Rcently I have taken to using my discount card for my local pet store. I was always losing it - now I know where it is all the time. :)

[pageturner30]

book makers is one of my weak point as I always buy and use them. I tend to buy them as sovinue of either holieday, charity or even people I have meet in life. My favourite is one I was given by a patient who painted by mouth - a reminder that we are all fortunate to be able to share the written the wordno matter what - even the blind!

Dorothy

[tidypijin]

I think a lot of the reason that people don't read somuch is that when they were kids they had people standing behind them yelling at them for turning pages too roughly. so they lost the joy of just READING the damn book, for fear of damaging it.

a turned down coner doesn't affect the story in the slightest. and surely it's the STORY that's important? we have books at thome that have been literally 'read to death'. the covers fall off, the spines are broken... but they're much loved and that's the most important thing.


I agree that books like many other things need to be loved and enjoyed - I grew up in a family of 6 where personal possessions of any type were few - if you spoilt it you didn't get something new. Maybe I'm anal but I respect all my possessions not just books and I can't bring myself to be less careful just because the book was cheap or it was a second hand copy or it belongs to someone else or it's a shared family item. Chacun a son gout!! :)

[Maureen]

I have a favourite bookmark.......somewhere...... :? but use all sorts of things as a bookmark - shopping bills, pieces of paper, cardboard cut-outs, gum wrappers, was even using a coaster one time.

[Kell]

I recently received a cute bookmark in a RISI swap (it was a little boko, so they obviously felt they had to send something with it to make it worthwhile - the book was The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, so it was worth it anyway!). The bookmark is topped by a fuzzy bear with its arms outstretched as though offering a hug & it peaks out the top of the book. It's SOOOOO cute! Of course, me being me, he has to have a name. And me being me, I have to give him a [i]lieteral[.i] name. He's called Booky Bear. Highly unoriginal, I know, but he makes me smile. :)

There's something nice about receiving a bookmark - you get some beautiful ones these days with semi-precious stones & everything in them. Lovely!

[Maureen]

does any one else do those "In Memory of" thingys after someone dies over there? (It usually consists of a photograph of the deseased and a prayer?)

It's cause that's what I am currently using as a bookmark - and it is not as a sign of disrespect - in fact everytime I start to read, I think of the person who died, and say what a pity!( he was 26 yrs old)

[Kell]

I've never seen those, Mau, but it sounds like a lovely idea - & a very nice way to remember your friend too. :)

[Maureen]

We do it as a memento of loved ones. It must be an old Maltese tradition.

Older people usually keep the picture of a loved one next to a picture of a saint/our lady/Jesus that they pray to, and a church candle, and say a prayer for their soul when they pray. (Say if a woman lost her husband, she will put this next to Our lady's picture and a candle, and say a prayer for him whenever she prays)

[Angel]

Maureen, I don't think that so many people do that over here as much nowadays. I tend to light a candle in memory and Our Lady's prayer. A bookmark is a lovely idea.

I love bookmarks but somehow they always seem to disappear or borrowed, so I don't see them again :shock:

[wiccibat]

I have a few of those Maureen,I thought it was an Irish tradition! But I never thought of using them as bookmarks.

[Louiseog]

I have a few of those Maureen,I thought it was an Irish tradition! But I never thought of using them as bookmarks.
and me!

[Maureen]

The one in question is plastic laminated and quite long - exactly the ideal shape.

[Louiseog]

Now you come to mention it they are book mark shaped! i have looked at the book jewel things which are gorgeous but I tend to use anything near! Bit like you Maureen!
but use all sorts of things as a bookmark - shopping bills, pieces of paper, cardboard cut-outs, gum wrappers, was even using a coaster one time.

[1sillywabbit]

At home I often use my mobile :) but mostly postcards, photo's, or those free perfume strips shops hand out, makes the book smell wonderful

Dog ear... noooo never :shock:

Have some lovely beaded Book thongs I use for fav hardbacks...


Wabbit x :wave:

[Kell]

Ooh - good idea with the perfume strips!

[1sillywabbit]

Ooh - good idea with the perfume strips!

Yes Try them Kell :D They are perfect for bookmarks ..
I also use them in my bag, makes it smell lovely
The whole family get them for me now :mrgreen:

Wabbit x :wave:

[Michelle]

However, it was discussed over in RISI that perfumes are a personal preference, and they weren't keen on them in swapped books.

[MonkeyCatcher]

I'm horrible with bookmarks - I'm always losing them! At the moment I'm using one with cocktail recipes on it (I went to a talk for a hospitality course), although I'm not sure how long that one will last before it too goes missing. Usually I just use a trivial pursuit card - that way I learn something new everytime I open my book :D

[Ronny]

I collect postcards and I often use them for bookmarks and I try to match the card to the book if I can :oops: I have too much time on my hands I guess.

[Esiotrot]

Oh this thread has made me want a nice bookmark- I am going to ask my 3 year old to make me one. I currently am using my business card as a bookmark but have used receipts and the cover sleeve if its a hard back book.

[Inver]

Sometimes with swap I get a postcard inside it. Also have various others. My youngest made a bookmark at school once and they laminated them...so I use that a lot.

Also was sent to lovely bookstrings from someone in the USA I did book trade with on Bookcrossing.....they are unusual.

[TammyRich]

I use the first piece of paper I can find to hand be it a receipt or a price tag or old envelope. Sometimes when I clear out my purse or handbag and I come across old cinema or train tickets I tuck them into books I know I will read in the future ready to use as bookmarks! It's always a nice surprise to come across a ticket of a favourite film I enjoyed tucked in a book I had forgotten about.

[Icecream]

I use things like that too Tammy, but I also have lots of bookmarks. Got a really nice one for a birthday pres once, but eventually it broke.

[Tiger]

I use a Minack Theatre bookmark, and I sometimes use a sticky note.

[lovesreading06]

my book mark says i like to red books. Its got a pic of a worm on top of 5 books. I think it meant to be for kids but i liked it.

[Laramie]

I have hundreds of bookmarks, but I never seem to know where any are! I know where...3 are, at the moment. I also use whatever peice of paper I can come across if I can't find one!:lol: I just like to:readingtwo:

[NiceguyEddie]

I use a Minack Theatre bookmark, and I sometimes use a sticky note.

That's a coincidence as my wife was only saying yesterday that we ought to go there when we are holidaying in Cornwall later in the month.

I can never find a bookmark in the house.

[FishAndChips]

I need more bookmarks. I'm currently using a dog eared old leather one that I've had for YEARS. When I was younger I had a metal one with a butterfly shaped hook that hooked over the spine of the book. I wonder if I still have it somewhere.

[Karen]

I have a bookmark that my mum made for me. It has a picture of a goldfish in a bowl and a rabbit cross-stitched on it along with my name.

[Echo]

I noticed something weird about myself. When I was going through my books a few weeks ago and getting rid of some, I would take out any little scraps of paper I had been using as a bookmark...but then when I needed a new one, I found one of the old scraps and re-used it. I didn't throw it away, and I didn't simply tear off another little piece of paper to use.

By the way, my nice copy of Anne of Green Gables is slung over the arm of the chair in my living room! I need to find another scrap of paper...:lol:

[Maureen]

copy of Anne of Green Gables is slung over the arm of the chair in my living room

Wow! Using books as interior decorations! You really love books!:tong:

[Fay]

I use any old scrap of paper I can find, usually a shopping receipt or an old (non-winning) lottery ticket.

At the moment though I am using a bookmark that my daughter made using a scrap of paper and some felt tip pens.

[Lilywhite]

I have a funky new one that my mum bought for me, it's a Bagpuss one and it's a magnetic tab that you slip over the page you're on. It's really cute and it supports a good cause (asthma uk)

[beef]

I used to be grabbing random bits of paper all the time to mark pages but i finally dragged my finger from my backside and bought 30 bookmarks off ebay for a few pounds. My books are now generally in better condition and my paper is saved from tears.

[wrathofkublakhan]

<snip>..... or sometimes I try to memorize my page number.. and always forget it! :roll:</snip>

Guilty!
It never works....walking around thinking 62, 62, it's page 62....

[Adam]

For me I have two bookmarks.

My first one has a picture of a wolf in the snow. It is an images of Canada one. I love this one and use it the most.

My second one is metal with brown leather. It has the quote "May you live everyday of your life," inscribed on it. The quote is by Jonathan Swift.

Sorry to bring this back up. I just thught I would share :D

[Galactic Space Hamster]

I never use a bookmark and just remember where I am. It might take a quick flip back and forth, but it only takes a few seconds. I have never used a bookmark. Although, I really like the idea of bookmarks I never use them. Maybe I don't use bookmarks because I know, me being me, that I will loose them. Maybe because I can't be bothered with them. Maybe it's because I'm a londoner! Who knows? It's a mystery. I might buy a bookmark and try it out some time...

Ah, and this made me laugh

heh - i treat books terrible. they get turned down on the corners, read in the bath, chucked at people, covered in fingerprints... LOL

[supergran71]

I have a metal filigree one slips over the page I am at. Very useful. I get nagged by my oh if I turned down pages. He bought me the book mark to stop me doing it.:mrgreen:

[Spooncat]

i've given up with book marks as i always loose them! even a lovely one from my sons school where u get their school pic printed on the book mark - it will turn up eventually no doubt!:smile2:

[proserpina]

I have lots of bookmarks scattered about but not a single one is between the pages of my book!

I usually use any old piece of paper I have to hand, at the moment it's a theatre ticket.

More often than not I have a piece of paper handy to jot down any words I come across while reading that I want to check in the dictionary. That usually acts as a perfectly decent bookmark.

[David]

I have a draw full of bookmarks that I have mainly collected from bookshops and libraries but I still memorize the page numbers because I have a son who thinks it's funny to move the bookmark to other pages.

My favourite bookmarks are the ones the kids have made, second to that are the leather ones that are gold embossed.

[FishAndChips]

LOL I bet that drives you mad!

I like the gold embossed leather ones too. The leather ones last really well.

[David]

LOL I bet that drives you mad!
Well only If I forget the page number.


The leather ones last really well.

Yes and the older and more tattered they get the better I like them.

[Adam]

I bought a new bookmark today. It is a picture of a rustic light tower at sea. It also has a tassle. It looks so professional :lol:

[Gyre]

I have a good few bookmarks now, I got a lovely dolphin one. x

[Severnlad]

I have a metal one of my initial that clips over the top of the page. A small Christmas gift from under the tree last year it has been used every day since then. :readingtwo:

[Kirstykat]

I keep meaning to sew my own bookmarks. I have some lovely ones that I could cross-stitch and then get laminated at work.
The trouble is do I read....or sew.... or read....or sew.....????:lol:

[nicnic]

Most of my bookmarks are just slips of paper or whatever. I also use things that I find in library and second hand books. I have found two photos in second hand books I use. One is of a very lonely looking sheep on a hillside, the other of a load of anniversary cards on a shelf. I always see bookmarks to buy but I am so bad at losing them down the back of the sofa or whatever that it's a bit pointless buying them.

[Angel]

I keep meaning to sew my own bookmarks. I have some lovely ones that I could cross-stitch and then get laminated at work.
The trouble is do I read....or sew.... or read....or sew.....????:lol:

That's my daily dilemma when I am off work!!! Due to the appalling light today, it was too dark to attempt cross stitch or hand embroidery and my back was hurting too much to lean over the sewing machine machine, the books won :blush:

[Maureen]

I bet no one is using a floppy disk (the inside of) as a bookmark! That's what I have in one of my textbooks!

[Angel]

:lol: Thats original Maureen!

[Adam]

Most of my bookmarks are just slips of paper or whatever. I also use things that I find in library and second hand books. I have found two photos in second hand books I use. One is of a very lonely looking sheep on a hillside, the other of a load of anniversary cards on a shelf. I always see bookmarks to buy but I am so bad at losing them down the back of the sofa or whatever that it's a bit pointless buying them.

That why they are so cheap :lol:

[Kirstykat]

I was horrified to find a square of CLEAN toilet paper in my husband's book once. I went to move it off of the coffee table to dust it and saw this piece of loo roll poking out :banghead:. I wouldn't mind but we have a drawer full of bookmarks and we always buy them when we visit places of interest. I really did have quite a lot to say on the matter:motz::Tantrum:.

Needless to say, he hasn't done it since...!!!:lol:

[Adam]

I was horrified to find a square of CLEAN toilet paper in my husband's book once. I went to move it off of the coffee table to dust it and saw this piece of loo roll poking out :banghead:. I wouldn't mind but we have a drawer full of bookmarks and we always buy them when we visit places of interest. I really did have quite a lot to say on the matter:motz::Tantrum:.

Needless to say, he hasn't done it since...!!!:lol:

That is funny. Very creative! :lol:

[Angel]

:lol: That made me really laugh Kirstykat :lol:

[Maureen]

Me too!

[Karen]

I've lost my favourite (and only) bookmark. I know it's in my bedroom somewhere though as I was reading yesterday, but when I went to put my bookmark in to keep my place it was nowhere to be found. I've searched high and low and can't find it anywhere!

[Maureen]

did you try between the mattress and the head board?

[Karen]

Yep I've tried everywhere. I think its gone for good.

[angerball]

^Did you look in the back of the book? Sometimes when I can't find a place to put my bookmark, I stick it between the last page and backcover of the book. Then when I'm finished reading, I take it out and put it in the proper page.

[Adam]

If you have pets, maybe one of them took it.

That sucks though. It hurts to lose things you love.

[lovesreading06]

Did you look under the bed?

[Kylie]

Karen, if you really want to find it, go out and buy another bookmark. When you return home, I guarantee your other one will turn up! :lol:

[Karen]

I bought a bookmark today Kylie, so we'll see if the old one turns up.

I'm so annoyed as I have searched high and low for it and I know that it's here somewhere (or at least it should be), but I have no idea where. The only thing I can think of is maybe it got caught up in something and I've thrown it out by accident.

[happyanddandy]

I have a wooden page clip thing with 'Canada' written on it - it was a holiday gift to one of my children which I have 'borrowed'.

I bought my mum a clip bookmark last xmas, wrapped it and it has never been seen since!! It must have been taken by Mr Nobody who lives in my house. Which reminds me of a poem I read in childhood about 'Mr Nobody' who did all sort of things in your house that no one else owned up to - I must google it and find readit again. It made such an impression all those years ago.

[Adam]

It must have been taken by Mr Nobody who lives in my house.

LOL, thats funny. I like that :lol:

[lovesreading06]

see at chirtmas time mabey it been put in a box and been put up in the loft with xmas things.

I remeber my dad got a wallet and he didn't remeber where it been put it wasn't unitll we got the boxs, wrapping down. We found out it had been put in a box and was put up with the xmas decorations.

[happyanddandy]

I think you are probably right Laura :smile2:

I found the poem 'Mr Nobody'

I know a funny little man,
As quiet as a mouse,
Who does the mischief that is done
In everybody's house!
There's no one ever sees his face,
And yet we all agree
That every plate we break was cracked by
Mr Nobody.

'Tis he who always tears our books,
Who leaves the door ajar,
He pulls the buttons from our shirts,
And scatters pins afar;
That squeaking door will always squeak
For, prithee, don't you see,
We leave the oiling to be done by
Mr Nobody.

He puts damp wood upon the fire,
That kettles cannot boil;
His are the feet that bring in mud,
And all the carpets soil.
The papers always are mislaid,
Who had them last but he?
There's not one that tosses them about
But Mr Nobody.

The finger-marks upon the door
By none of us are made;
We never leave the blinds unclosed,
To let the curtains fade;
The ink we never spill; the boots
That lying round you see
Are not our boots; they all belong to Mr Nobody.

Anon


You see I told you he lives at my house :lol:

[lovesreading06]

lol happyanddandy.

i remeber getting told that either at church or school or both.

[Adam]

I think you are probably right Laura :smile2:

I found the poem 'Mr Nobody'

I know a funny little man,
As quiet as a mouse,
Who does the mischief that is done
In everybody's house!
There's no one ever sees his face,
And yet we all agree
That every plate we break was cracked by
Mr Nobody.

'Tis he who always tears our books,
Who leaves the door ajar,
He pulls the buttons from our shirts,
And scatters pins afar;
That squeaking door will always squeak
For, prithee, don't you see,
We leave the oiling to be done by
Mr Nobody.

He puts damp wood upon the fire,
That kettles cannot boil;
His are the feet that bring in mud,
And all the carpets soil.
The papers always are mislaid,
Who had them last but he?
There's not one that tosses them about
But Mr Nobody.

The finger-marks upon the door
By none of us are made;
We never leave the blinds unclosed,
To let the curtains fade;
The ink we never spill; the boots
That lying round you see
Are not our boots; they all belong to Mr Nobody.

Anon

LOL, that is cute, I like that :lol:

[angerball]

I love that poem - it's cute! :lol: Thanks for posting it; it certainly explains a lot of goings on in my house! :lol:

[Icecream]

I love that poem. We definitely have one in our house. Shoes everywhere, things getting broken, the toilet light left on. I could go on for ages. Children! Katie has no sunlight into her bedroom because her older brother was swinging on the curtains and broke the rail when visiting for his sister. Of course Mr Nobody had done until I made them own up to it.

[Raven]

I have a pile of old cinema tickets I use as bookmarks.

[Stephanie2008]

I use anything that is around when I need to stop reading - post its, paper, tissues etc. But I tend to use paperclips because they don't fall out (as I often lose my page).

[Ruth]

I have a cloth bookmark, which is good, because it never remains creased for long. My husband uses anything - old train tickets, old lottery tickets; just whatever happens to be lying around.

[rach.at.the.disco]

I do have a few bookmarks but they are all being used in various books I haven't read in a while :roll:. Now I have resorted to using an index card, although I have been known to fold down the pages :eek2: when I've started a book on the bus and have nothing to mark my pages with.

[Kylie]

although I have been known to fold down the pages :eek2: when I've started a book on the bus and have nothing to mark my pages with.

You're brave admitting to that around here... ;)

[rach.at.the.disco]

You're brave admitting to that around here... ;)

I know, maybe I should have left that bit out....:lol: but I'm genrally really strict about it - especially when my sister borrows them and does the same thing I go wild :roll:.

[Mr.H]

My favourite bookmark is the one my niece gave me as a gift from Australia where she spent a year. It has my name on it an a kangaroo!
:lol: Might seem childish! But I love it!

[Wonders disciple]

I have been using old Waterstone's receipts lately. They do the job, but i do like having a proper bookmark for some reason.

[Icecream]

but i do like having a proper bookmark for some reason.

So do I, but I keep leaving them around the house when I'm running around with the children (and with my book) and then they get lost, either that or my daughter takes them and loses them. She seems to think it is funny if Mummy loes her place in her book.

[Nici76]

I have loads of bookmarks but for some reason I can't find any of them and I am currently using a postcard.

[Kylie]

I have accumulated a little pile which mostly consists of bookmarks received when I've bought a book. My current one is from an independent bookshop in Sydney - it has the name of the shop on the back and a pretty flower picture on the front :D

I have a couple of nice metal ones but I'm on the lookout for something 'special'. I don't have anything particular in mind though; I'll know it when I see it.

[ii]

I have a couple of bookmarks of handmade lace that I mostly use. What's the term in English? 'Bobbin'? I think that's it.

[kitty_kitty]

I use postcards from which i get from favourite places, i got a load from my hols in Wales and Cuba

[tillymint]

I like getting bookmarks from my hols, current one is an Ocean Village one.

[Suzanne123]

My sister just came back from Disneyland Paris and brought me a bookmark because she knows I love my books :)
its currently residing in page 73 of The Woman in Black
bu Susan Hill :readingtwo:

[carm]

In the book I read during lunch and trraveling from work, I have a really beautiful bookmark that was part of a Christmas present- in the book I'm reading at home I have a plain paper bookmark from The Strand

[scottishbookworm]

my bookmark is the design of a cat and it says "Keep your paws off my book!"

[Spooncat]

Ok, I confess I fold the pages down at the corner! :cry2: I'm not proud of it but I cant seem to stop esp when I always without fail lose any bookmarks ever given to me!

[lovesreading06]

Ok, I confess I fold the pages down at the corner! :cry2: I'm not proud of it but I cant seem to stop esp when I always without fail lose any bookmarks ever given to me!

My pal did that to the library books. I got her a bookmark either for her Birthday or Christmas.

Spooncat. I'm sure you must have recepts in you purse or bag. Or car parking tickets/bus tickets.

You could use them for a bookmark.

[beef]

I now have a pirate book mark, it has a skull, single bone and a dagger and heart.

this: bookmark (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Pirate_Flag_of_Stede_Bonnet.svg/744px-Pirate_Flag_of_Stede_Bonnet.svg.png)

[GWA]

Train tickets were surely designed to be bookmarks me thinks, or at least that's what they get recycled for in my house!

GWA.
:D

[The Library Nook]

I am a terrible reader, I commit the sin of *whispers* turning down the pages of paperbacks! I use the jacket to mark hardbacks. I almost never use a bookmark.

I once had a library book with a piece of bacon rind in it as a bookmark!

Debbie

lol I have to admit to doing that too but only with my own books. As for bacon rind, eurgh!
I have bought a few bookmarks over the years but always lose them so usually just use post it notes, scraps of paper etc.

I use the jacket on a hardback usually - I take the jacket off the book while I read it though - does anyone else do that?
. :?

Yes, thought it was just me!

[Ceinwenn]

I, too, use the jackets on hardcovers as bookmarks, but for paperbacks it's usually a Tesco's receipt or something the like.

[lovesreading06]

I got a bus ticket as a book mark in one of my books at the moment.

[sajid78]

I picked about a dozen free ones that my local library was handing out!

[Charm]

My OH got one of those magnetic ones that you open and then put over the page and close it again. A Mr Man one out of Waterstones no less :lol: (Mr Cool of course). In his defense it was a birthday present :lol: But I thought it was really good cause it wont fall out ... plus if you lose it they aren't expensive to replace. :smile2: