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

[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 -

 

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.

 

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]

[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, 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!!

 

Susanna

[Maureen]

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

 

[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) . Love the bookstrings a bookcrosser in Canada sent me when I swapped books with her and use them a lot.

 

Good thread this PP

[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!!

Susanna

[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!