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What do you use for a bookmark?

Demon said:
There's a woman on Pawn Stars?
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Well, there was.. until some 'porn past' or something surfaced. Then poof!
Doesn't get much more ironic! :ROFLMAO:

Don't really watch much anymore, but there is Rebecca that comes in to evaluate book value, and woman knows her books!
Either that, or she has been informed of what she's getting ready to look at, and now knows every bit about it.🤔;)

Eh, show aside, I'd still say she knows her books.
 
Josie said:
Please don't tell me you dog-ear the pages....

I had a bookmark made with my name on it. I got it from an Etsy seller. You?
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<~~follow link to coolest, best priced bookmarks ever

At the time, I bought 2 packs(100 bookmarks), because my niece liked them. That was some years ago. Mostly now I read through the kindle app on my ipad, but I do still have some of those bookmarks and use them when I read physical books. Dogearinnng pages of books is sacrilege and people will burn in hell for it.
 
Most of the books I read are audiobooks these days, and I read them with my wife. Since we share apps, sometimes one of us will advance the other one forward by accident, so we send each other their current time just in case. Those occasionally end up being my bookmarks. On the rare occasion that I have enough time to read an actual book, I have a couple neat bookmarks that were given to me as gifts.

Edit to add : I do not dog-ear pages.
 
If the book is from the library I use the paper check-out tape as a bookmark. I also have a leather bookmark or an ACLU list of banned books bookmark.
 
Josie said:
Please don't tell me you dog-ear the pages....

I had a bookmark made with my name on it. I got it from an Etsy seller. You?
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I love to read. I enjoy spending time in bookstores. Over the years I’ve made a habit of collecting bookmarks from wherever.
 
Redress said:
And another one of those things I thought only I ever did...
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You probably think you're the only one who ever peed in the shower too!
 
Anything to keep the page marked until I ran into that little old lady, you know, one of those people you just remember. She crocheted a very delicate cross for me for a job done well. I've since forgotten what it was about but I still have that cross and I still remember her.
 
Josie said:
Please don't tell me you dog-ear the pages....

I had a bookmark made with my name on it. I got it from an Etsy seller. You?
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Depends on the book.

I'll dog-ear my fiction paperbacks all day long and never so much as wince with any shame in so doing.

Hard-bound, non-fiction books, or special books (fiction or non-) that I deem special for one reason or another however I will use a book mark, sometimes the book jacket, sometimes a piece of paper I cut myself, sometimes a nicer book mark. Just depends.
 
I use the bookmark button on the kindle.

I still read every day, but I haven't read a physical book in years.
 
A mylar sheet.

What can I say, I've got a book conservator in the family. :)
 
I've got a huge collection of books and once had them all very neatly set into this fine book shelf structure I purchased and built and then our 2011 earthquake completely emptied all those books in a huge pile and as I was in a fair bit of a hurry to get them back on the shelves and had a lot of other stuff to deal with because of earthquake damage in both homes I rushed and have never gotten back to properly redoing that shelf system --- getting all the books in their proper place and such.

Very odd that earthquake, too. All the north/south shelves in this house emptied of items, but the east/west shelves were pretty much left okay. And after that Friday the 11th we had shakes for over a year almost 3 or 4 or 5 times a week. Some quite strong.

As for bookmarks of the brick-and-mortar world, just anything handy. But learned early on not to write notes and then use that paper as a bookmark. See the printed stuff all over the page of the book after that, in many cases.

Some books I've had to wrap in kitchen wrap to keep them preserved. I've collected some rather old books over the years. Somebody told me about the kitchen wrap trick, if I wasn't going to have a special room set up with humidity and temperature control. But I really do have way too many books in this place. Have a whole bunch of programming books from way back, too. Linux, for example. Lots of that stuff is only found in digital formats these days. Oh yes, and old newspapers. I have way, way too many of those. I think there's a name for folks like me, right? Pack rat? Two words, or one?
 
phoenix2020 said:
A mylar sheet.

What can I say, I've got a book conservator in the family. :)
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I never even considered of cutting strips of mylar from a roll of drafting film that i have.
 
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