/lit/ - Literature

>>2255147
Fold the corner.

Dog ear every page you read.

Index cards usually. When I get them from the library I use the library receipt.

Either a random piece of paper or I just remember what page I'm on.

my favorite is a black and white photo of a dog on a mountaintop that i found in a book in the school library

otherwise just receipts

>>2255159
> library receipt.
What third world country are you from?

>>2255171
Baltimore.

>>2255175

get me a snapple and a bag of crab chips

I don't use them, except for my bathroom-book, which I use toilet paper for. Fuck you.

>>2255181
You got it hun.

I have a free bookmark from a charity shop which, very helpfully, reminds me to leave them money in my will. If I don't have that, any old bit of paper will do. Page folding is unacceptable.

>>2255175
The US needs to up its Library game. Get a computer system in for loans.

Usually I use this little product care glossy card for a metal works line, sometimes other slips of paper, receipts, but rarely for the whole book.

I did find a blue Ki'i Pohaku petroglyph bookmark that I'm using for The Odyssey. It fits perfectly with the story.

>Fold corner
I should really stop this

>Receipt
Sometiomes I get paranoid over what some thief could gleam from my groceries/borrowed book list

>Mom gave me bookmarks with Monet paintings on.
They are rotting deep in some drawer. fuck Monet, Turner is where it's at.

>24k gold bookmark with intricate cherry tree stancing.
Got really paranoid about it being stolen and it also looked too pimp for my style. I lost it in the streets ofc.

So what are good ideas for bookmarks then? Pokémon cards?

The nearest receipt I find or the one from the book purchase. Or remember the page, I hate when people fold/dog ear the pages.

>>2255215
> Pokémon cards?
Only shiny charizards.

I have a ton of those hooker cards that the peddlers try and hand to you in Las Vegas. God forbid someone opens up my book and finds it. Nonetheless a conversation starter.

>>2255215

most self respecting used bookstores will have bookmarks printed up with their name and address

all my bookstores give me a free bookmark for every book i buy

I fold pages like a motherfucker. Who cares about the paper, it's the ink that matters.

>>2255215
>Turner is where it's at.
My fellow gentleman.

I just remember them, since I have the habit of rereading the previous 2 pages from where I left.

>>2255217
>Conversation starter
Did you know this prostitute was found dead? Do you have an alibi for last Wednesday? Can anyone corroborate that you were "reading a book"?

I usually remember what page I'm on(or close to it) because I lose whatever I'm using as a book mark or forget to put it in the right place. I don't know what it says about me.

>most self respecting used bookstores will have bookmarks printed up with their name and address

Since I mostly read scifi/fantasy this presents me with a problem. The niched stores that sell them are mostly known for catering to my country's emo anime fan scene.

Oh wth nobody respects scifi/fantasy anyways and with such godawful cover art who can blame them...

pic not related

I used to use old bus passes, but my little sister had bookmarks made out of her latest school photos, so I've been using one of those.

>>2255222
Dead you say? Well...uh..we were just talking then.....
>pokerface

I use an empty Sweet and Low packet.

I should just laminate a card saying "carpe diem" and bedazzle it

too much?

>>2255171
I use this 'happy holidays' bookmark that the public library sent me.

I use $20 bills, and hide them away in my books when I'm through.
I think of it as a reward for rereading my books in the future, and a hidden piggy bank.

>>2255258
Trying to hard, would only work if you're 12.

I don't use bookmarks. I dogear my pages.

rubber bands

>>2255267
I was trying for irony

but that would make me a hipster nowadays

and that's bad I hear

A paper straw wrapper.

Keeping it classy.

i have a card with the superhero Flash on it from a cereal box in 2004.
Or I use my metro ticket from Paris in 2005

Pick related

>>2255279
neat

maybe common items from a foreighn land is the way to go

>>2255279

please get multiples of that flash card and hand them out as business cards

I use a deck of cards. Some card have disappeared.

>>2255153
What happens when you want to reread the book?

>>2255273
Both things you mention, trying for the sake of irony and acting like a hipster to get pussy/cock, are extactly "trying too hard".

Advice, let the irony come naturally, that's what's fun about it.

Sorry if I sound like an egocentrical pseudomature bitch, I just don't know how to rephrase it to sound helpful.

>>2255300
Not saying you've been trolled, just that I'm kinda disapointed that you took the posts at face value even when I provided a tell tale pic.

An index card.

M-my kindle just remembers what page I was last on.

>>2255340
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>>2255340

breakdancing_baudrillard.gif

>>2255279

I use a leaf I found by the rocks out by the island of Fuerteventura during my holidays. I remember the day I was leaving I sat on the rocks and looked at the ocean spread out forever for hours so I'd never forget the image and reading a bit of "the tempest" in between looking at it.

>>2257324
Well aren't you just the fucking shit.

I dogear my books. Deal with it. They're just items. It's what's inside that counts.

I generally use a business card. I just remember to pick one up from some place around town whenever I'm about to start a new book. Works well, plus I have a growing collection of useless contact information

>>2257331
I like that. Permission to steal that?

I don't believe in bookmarks.

I can usually find my place in under a minute. I think if you have difficulty finding where you have/have not yet read, you need to start again at the beginning.

>>2257336
Lol, go for it, you aren't stealing anything! I actually picked up the habit from a former associate some years ago.

i use an old pair of jeans

it works really good because you have a lot of fabric left over to wrap the book up in to keep it save and secure

I just remember what page I'm on, usually.

>>2257339
I'm still going to call it stealing in my mind if you don't mind.

crappy magic the gathering cards

I dog-ear all my books.

It pisses some people off, but fuck it; it's a mark of the fact that I've read the fucker. It's a book, not an heirloom.

I found an old handmade bookmark in a 50-year-old book I bought. Some kid had clearly made it for his parents.

I use it just because I feel like that bookmark has a history to it, and I'm adding on to that history.

Tend to use sheets of toilet roll as it's always nearby

>>2257349
mfw my tradeback copy of ulysses belonged to my grandma...
TIME TO MAKE A BOOK PRESS!

usually a bus transfer or receipt or something I find in my pocket. anything, really, I'll try to memorize if I have to. I hate dog earring, haven't done it since maybe middle school, unless I was actively trying to disrespect the book which has happened maybe once in my life.

>>2257355
it's not that I even keep my books in good condition, especially since I get most of them used and often lose the cover/ have to tape it on and always just shove them in my outside pocket if possible

>>2257347
Pic related, it's what's keeping my place currently.

>>2257353

Now that's an interesting point; I have spent like $3k on books in the last two years building a collection of classics, and I intend to pass them on to my kids and grandkids because that'd be cool.

Growing up, I came into possession of many books in this exact fashion, mostly from my grandmother (who enjoys literature as I do). Many of those were themselves dog-eared and well-used, and this only added to their charm in the eyes of a younger me.

>>2257362
>2011
>Not marking your books using MTG cards exclusively from the "Unglued" block

I use a goofy laminated bookmark my big sister made in 7th grade art class 15 years ago on my big regular book. transit cards and receipts for the stuff I read on the side

>>2257372
I don't have any Unglued, sad;y. I have some Unhinged cards that I'll probably use for this purpose sooner or later though. Punctuate and Frazzled Editor seem fitting.

Just remember the page number.

>>2255159
Yes...Library receipt master-race

it will never work

I use a dried midgets penis.

Piece of paper, or bookmarks from my local charity owned bookstore. When desperation strikes, I dog-ear the pages

I use playing cards (jack off c(l)ubs) or receipts.

Bus tickets. Leave them in when finished.

Coin master race reporting in

other books or a pen.

If it's a hard cover with a dust jacket, I fold the flap into my current spot. Gets tricky in the middle of really fat books.

Dog ear unless it looks to fancy for that. Then paper.

>>2257512

>leaves the dust jacket on while reading
>ISHYGDDT

My brain.

>>2257575
Who says I leave it on while reading?

A feather. No, seriously.

bizzness card , works well .

I have a pile of bookmarks... metal, ribbon ones, cardstock, etc... but half of the time they fall to the bottom of my bag and i use a post-it or tear a slip of paper and write something like "I'm a bookmark" on it. Left one of those in V for Vendetta a few months back, lent it to a friend, and she lawled at it.

I use the bookmark feature on my Kindle

Always use a Joker card for a deck of playing cards. Will never use anything different.

Library receipts or what ever paper is at hand when i need it.

Metal bookmarks hurt the books. Never again.

I either memorize the page (say it a few times and draw it in the air with my finger) or use an index card that I also write some notes on - other books, quotes, words, etc.

The best bookmark ever. Even made some for my friends~ c:

I use old train tickets since I travel so much and I always have them lying around.

If I stopped reading in the end of a chapter, I remember the number of the page or the chapter. If I stopped reading in the middle of a chapter, I just put a random piece of paper.

In the beggining of the year I found inside the first Harry Potter bookmarker that I made when I was 11 years old or something, I started using it to mark the pages, but I stopped reading A Song and Ice And Fire, and, since I wanto to return, I let the bookmark in the page I stopped reading.