Bookmarks!

[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 They are perfect for bookmarks ..

I also use them in my bag, makes it smell lovely

The whole family get them for me now

 

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

[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.

[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! 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.

[~Andrea~]

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.

[Karen1]

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...

[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!

[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! </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

[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.

[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!