/lit/ - Literature

I take a post-it note and fold it in half onto its sticky surface. Works perfect every time.

I just rip the page out when I'm done reading it.

Shameless self bump, I usually use what ever i can find paper clip, piece of paper, penny etc

My library gives a printed receipt with due dates, so I usually use those.

Bookmarks I've received from book depository.

I use my fuck!

anybody use some of these fancy looking bookmarks made from silver and unicorn hair?

Old bus passes. When school is in session I ride the bus pretty often, so I keep a small stack and use them as bookmarks.

>>991625

>implying there are blue haired unicorns of this hue

Most blue unicorns even have a white mane. Blue-haired unicorns are extremely rare and they have a paler hue.

Some old Russian metro card.

Private Altoids reporting for duty.

my penis

Private Altoids reporting for duty.

i dog-ear the pages of all the books I actually own.... is this bad?

I usually use a single sheet of toilet paper, folded in half with the crease along the shorter dimension.

I use a thin necklace/ dogchain thing.

If it's from the library, I use the book receipt. Often, I'll find other people's bookmarks in books (particularly longer ones) and use those.

I have a bag of zip ties next to my bed that I use. Every time I lose one I just grab another.

I'm of the philosophy that only pussies use bookmarks. Is it seriously so hard to remember where you were in the book that you have to mark it with a piece of paper?

>>991775
it's merely convenient, especially if you are reading multiple books.

I only use bookmarks for very long books. If I have a book that's less than 500 pages I usually don't need a bookmark.

Currently I'm using one of my mom's business cards; the last time I used a blank sparkly thank-you note card. Got glitter all over my pages. :\

>>991775
I have read 20 ~800 page novels since May. No way in hell I could remember the page I was at all those times I took breaks from reading.

I just remember the page number

baseball ticket stub

another book

>>991801

You read way too fast.

>>991812
me 2 but i usauly forget it and have to search for a while

>>991614

Anon here likes it.

I tend to use the receipt for the book. If that's unavailable for some reason, I just rip out a piece of a newspaper.

$10 bill. I started after I forgot a book in class one day, I don't do that anymore.

I use a postcard

old mtg cards.

it's kinda gay, but currently i'm using the booklet from 40 oz To Freedom. only because it was the closest thing. Reading Tolkiens 'Lost Tales.' it's a long story, pun not intended.

>>991621
My library has started doing this and I think it's retarded.

At any rate, I use a bookmark if I have one available, but if I don't anything's game, paper, cards, money, whatever.

> I'm of the philosophy that only pussies use bookmarks

Cool philosphy, bro.

I use pokemon cards.
I use Drowzee and Exeggutor. Never fold the pages of my own books. I hate it.

People who fold the pages of books go to Hell.

MTG cards

i fold the shit out of the pages.

I never use a bookmark; I always either remember the page, or end up re-reading a bit to get there. Nothing wrong with that.

>>991801
>>992417
It's just two book series so I see no need to space them out. I took a break before I started the next series.

>>992555
You're a monster.

I fold because I throw away books once I'm finished with them

>>992560

no, i just really hate trees.

I don't see what the big problem with dog-earing them is.I do it to all my books.

I buy bookmarks often, but then I usually end up forgetting them someplace when I take them out to put in another book.

Or if it's a library book, I use whatever is lying around. Receipts, napkins, scraps of paper, ect.

An old collector's card from Typhoo Tea that I found in a second hand book.

I dog-ear every single time, the only exception is if I'm getting up to make food, or take a shit, something quick. In this case, I'll set it pages side down so I just have to flip it back up when I return.

>>991775

This is true. If you can't remember where you're up to in the story you clearly haven't read it properly.

>>992561

>>992755
I see this guy's face all the time. What is he from?

>>992759
it's from the movie the iron giant

this, but i've made my own for free.

>>992561
Youve made one dumpster diving hobo very literate.

>>992810
unless if he reads shitty books like the twilight trilogy.

i used an ancient mew pokemon card for awhile. i found some bookmark i made and colored in 3rd grade so im using that now.

pic related

I keep a pad of these in strategic locations around my bedroom (on windowsill next to couch, on bedside table, etc). I use one color for where I currently am in the book and another for passages I especially like / feel like I'll need to refer back to. I've been using the same pink note for the past three books I've read. Feels good, man.

Side note: Post-it notes were originally invented for this purpose.

>>991614
this actually made me burst out laughing!

I made myself a bookmark. Or really, I'm always in the process of making it. I take ticket stubs, photos, bits of ribbon, etc. and stick them onto this rectangle of card. I have some quotes from books on there too.
It's nice, like a little memory bookmark.

Why are nihilists such fucking crybabies?

folded piece of paper on which i take notes

Bookmarks are for pretentioushipsterfaggots.

Real men bend the fucking page.

Makes the book look lived in, experienced; demostrates it has become part of you in an osmotic, organic sense.

Useless faggots who think the medium needs to be treated with respect.

>>993030
Not sure if the pretentious ones are the ones who'd like to keep their books in good shape or the one forcing a "read-in" look so people think they adore it.

I use a single non-dyed, unscented piece of toilet paper or bookmarks I painted and sealed so they won't possibly rub off on the paper.

Page-folding and spine-creasing is god-tier unless you're planning on selling/trading in your book or something.

>>993034
truth.

I'm a poorfag so I buy all my books used. Bending the page isn't really a big deal when they're already in poor condition.

>>993057
and now you're not pretentious anymore, just trying to explain yourself...

i think that besides books and shelves the only thing that we can give attention to are the bookmarks.

I remember the page number

I open to the general chunk of the book I was reading, and flip through until I find the page I last read. Usually only takes 4-5 seconds.

Simplest origami bookmark.

Easy to do and effective as hell.

I leave it open. Or use the ticket from the first "real" concert I went to (adiohead on glasgow green) shit was so cash.
I have a very nice leather bookmark I bought in the keats and shelly house, rome. But that' stuck on my wall of "stuff" with blutack.

>>993145
oops *shelley

I never fold the page, ruins the book.

If I have a scrap of paper nearby, I put it in the page, if not, I just close it and when I pick it up again skim through the general area I was last at until I see keywords.

okay how the fuck does folding a page ruin the book?

i usually fold the corner.
but i bought a hundred and fifty pound book the other day, and that was cheap on ebay (108 heroes of the suikoden fyi), so i will most deffinately not be folding the corners in that motherfucker.

I usually remember where I stopped reading, as well as the paragraph, so I don't use anything as a bookmark.

Stop reading. Look at page number. Close book. Go about my business.