/lit/ - Literature

a bookmark I got from a bookstore with a book I purchased

My penis.

the top of a ciggy pack that you have to rip off
a piece of scrap paper cut to size

i just remember my page number

>>15368576

I start again each time. One day I hope to find out what causes the Roman empire to fall

>>15368508

I'm pretty bad at starting new books before I finish my current book. But I also have a strong FINISH WHAT YOU START ethic even when it takes years.

Things I am currently using as bookmarks:

- 2 normal bookmarks
- 1 flashy bookmark that clips over the page (it's not very good because it's too clippy and risks tearing the page every time you move it)
- 2 playing cards (Queen of Diamonds and 7 of Clubs as it happens)
- a 100-Kroner note which I will probably never get to use
- 2 of those ribbons that old books have attached to use as a bookmark even though they usually come off
- a bit of paper that was lying around when i stopped reading the book in question about a year ago

>>15368590

>I'm pretty bad at starting new books before I finish my current book.
What I meant was, I'm pretty *good* at it (I do it a lot) but it's a bad habit.

>>15368508
Nail clipper. Try it, OP. It's like it was made to be used as a bookmark.

>>15368508
A page i've already read.

>>15368508
a smaller book or whatever at hand

>>15368590
I also use playing cards. It's cheap as fuck, I get 54 of them and it works really well. I used to use a paper with the books I've read in a certain year but last year I lost the one I was using and I read multiple books at once so it wasn't working out very well.

my tongue

>>15368508

Playing cards. The only problem with it is that always forget which decks are already broken up and hence end up with a lot of decks with a single card missing in them.

>>15368586
it was the jews

some random visit cards

small post-it note block on which I write words I don't know yet because I'm a brainlet and English is not my first language

Memory

>>15368508
Bookmarks

Whatever I've got nearby from business cards to bubblegum wrappers.

Sheets I use for uni but have no use of anymore

>>15368508
I use the ribbon that comes sewn unto the spine of every edition of Everyman's Library.

>>15368508
>not just remembering your page
brainlet got filtered hard

>not dogearring your pages

Pleb as fuck

Mostly a Van Gogh magnet
Pic related

>>15368508
When I finish a book I tear out a page, fold it up and use it as a bookmark for the next book.

>>15368796
Epic for the win, my fellow gentlesir.

Edit: Thanks for the gold!

Any other way of marking your place is just lazy

Is all the prose in Twilight that bad?

Color coded index cards. They are thin enough to not damage paperbacks. Generally I use white for my current page and blue for my endnote position. If I'm reading something around a major holiday I might feel whimsical and use festive colors like green and red for Christmas.

>>15368508
I have about 50 bookmarks from the Strand that get rotated around endlessly. Other than that, playing cards.

make your own with cute drawings and shit

Boy, this thread sure smells like pure reddit.

>>15368820
Why would I draw cute things?

I just fold the corner of the page, no bookmarks nothing

>>15368552
heh

Toilet paper Uuh pieces

Tomato sauce

Love heart sticker my gf gave me

a small photograph of my girlfriend in the nude.

>>15368508
Just rip the pages you've read as you go.

>>15368895
Prove it.

>>15368508
The receipt

>>15368937
Why would I post a picture of my nude girlfriend on 4chan of all places

>>15368508
>he doesn’t finish the book in one go
Do plebs really?

>>15368948
idk, you can email it to me if you prefer

>>15368508
I use Goodreads. I used to use bookmarks but sometimes I accidentally removed them for dumb reasons and raged so hard, not anymore.

>>15368508

>>15368590
A fellow danebro?

>>15368508
I use other books as bookmarks.

>>15368508
a $100 dollar bill

I usually read two books at once and scissor them like lesbians angel-kissing as my bookmark

The bookmark an online seller provided with an order a few years back

100 Dong note or I just read up to the end of a chapter/50 page increments

Whatever I happen to be eating at the time.

I have this neat wooden kike golem bookmark, no idea where I got it from

>>15369476
write out emet/truth (אמת) on its head and pray any line from the Talmud to help it remember multiple spots in the book.

>>15368508
My business card

>>15368508
This one, sent from one of my japanese penpals.
I have no idea what does it say

>>15368508
I cut a flashcard in half. Once one half is ragged, i use the other half.

>>15369650
It says whittu piggu

>>15369681
I am not even white lel

>>15368508
dried leafs. the best.

i use the same bookmark this asian onions chooses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVSA-Se9scQ
bought my wife one with kittens

>>15369735
>>15369650
>>15369476
sorry, i prefer not having a pagan demon hide in my books I'm reading, thanks!

I have a "bridge over pond of water lillies" bookmark I got at Musee D'Orsay 8 years ago.

>>15368508
I rip out the dedication page as a bookmark,.

I use parking tickets and various fines. I also use them as placemats

>>15368508
I use a dollar bill. When I was kid, it was a matter of function because if I was in public and got thirsty, I could buy a drink. Now, drinks cost more than a dollar, but I still use it out of habit.

>not ripping out the pages as you read them

>>15369750
Based

>>15368508
A piece of paper the first time while dog-earing my way through. Afterwards, I usually refer to the dog ears unless I begin reading the book from the start in which case a piece of paper again. I had once of those of fancy bookmarks but I think I lost it. Pic related.

>>15368508
A MTG card

>>15370032
Based.

What color

>>15368508
Usually dollar bills I've got laying around.

Anything, really. Mostly the receipt from when I bought the book though

>>15369136
Dansk /lit/? Virkelig?

>>15368508
A 50 Euro note

>>15368508
A feather from my parakeet.

>>15368508
I use my gf's braided pubic hair. I get a new book mark about every month or so.

:)

I have a stack of business cards I collect from restaurants and bars I visit when I'm traveling. I use those.

>>15368508
my mom's business card

>>15369793
Kino

currently i'm using a business card of a backpacking hotel that i stayed at in Malacca some years back. i tend to just use little shit like that.

When I first started reading I just grabbed this playing card cause it was nearby and it has stuck with me ever since.

>>15368581
how is the head with backbone flying through space any better than the cool shodan guy with orange balls on his head?

>>15368636
just use the joker card, its what i use

I use a joker card with an arrow so I know where I left off. It's a bit autistic but it works

>>15368508
Library receipt

>>15371268
The penultimate guy still has a normal human body, if you look closely. The last guy has divorced his body and is floating majestically through space as pure unfettered intellect.

>>15371590
yeah this is a common one for me

>>15371049
Based Calvino poster
Strand gives you a free bookmark whenever you buy shit from them, so I like having Strand bookmarks with me when I travel

Whatever piece of paper is around, Right now I'm using an EZ pass fine.

>>15368508
No, you haven't really read a book unless you've memorized everything.

>>15368508
a polaroid of me with my brother

>>15368552
based

Literally whatever paper is around me. I have a dozen books with folded sheets of yellow paper from legal pads. Dollar bills. Tissues. The weird tag from my brief case. Business cards from people I forgot I ever met. Sometimes in a bind I’ll actually use another book as a book mark.

>>15372811
Same, I'm currently marking 2666 with a leaf of 1st class RM stamps that I had lying around when I picked it up a few days ago. It's a nice way to marker maybe where you starting reading something, particularly with longer books. i.e. I'll always associate IJ with the train ticket I used as a bookmark and by extension the journey I took when I bought it and read it for the first time.

A Magic land

>Bookmark
Lol wtf why

>>15368508
Why, yes, I don't use bookmarks. I read my books in one sitting. How did you know?

>>15372969
>being elitist over a fucking bookmark
the absolute state of you

>>15368508
Mostly train tickets from before I got the Ventra™ app

>>15368508
playing cards I got at a career fair from a company that never responded to my application

>>15373266
Death Grips sucks

Polaroid of my gf spreading her ass cheeks open

>>15371636
cute

>>15368508
If the pages stick together I assume I've been there already.

>>15368508
a fucking piece of toilet paper, fuck you

>>15368508
a love letter my gf gave me before we started dating

>>15368804
fuck that, it ruins your book if its paperback

>>15368508
I mostly use sumatra, and the sucky part is that it doesn't rember the last page you were on. So I have to go by my own memory. I use moonreader for mobile reading, and it doesn't have this problem.

I don't even read
but when I do I fold the corner.

A pen that I use to mark the pages.

>>15371636
WE WUZ KANGZ N SHIET

>>15368812
this is cute

>>15373266
Based
>>15373491
Based

>>15368508
the free BD ones

>>15368508
A Barcelona metro ticket

>>15368508
i dog ear my pages because i'm not concerned with keeping my books in mint condition for resale value. hell, half of my shit is from second hand stores and already has evidence of dog-earing

>>15369650
It's the name of the carver who makes these kokeshi dolls.
reads like Abomasa Fumi

>>15368508
I rip off a bit of regular paper and use that as my bookmark

>>15368508
an index card or piece of torn scrap paper

>>15369098

>>15375655
For Halloween last year I read a collection of Lovecraft's works. I used orange for my current page and blood red for the endnotes.

The tarot cards from this deck. I like the designs

The advertising cards that come when ordering records from Nuclear War Now

Depends on the book

>>15368508
Any random solid-white piece of paper that I fold and tear into an appropriate shape. Every day, I log my reading on the bookmark and once I've finished the book, I keep the bookmark as a momento.

>>15377975
Kek

>>15368508
yugioh cards

Rope with a monkey fist knot

>>15377975
Fucking underrated