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What do you use for a bookmark, /lit/?

>> No.10738726

>>10738685
I have some magnetic bookmarks

>> No.10738731

>>10738685
scraps of paper

>> No.10738748

>>10738685
A receipt for pepsi and spicy cheetos.

>> No.10738755

>>10738726
Are your books made of metal?

>> No.10738781

Remember my page number
Ya'll must be mathematically disabled or some shit

>> No.10738789

boarding passes and train tickets

>> No.10738799

>>10738685
business cards usually

>> No.10738882

>>10738685
My brain or my Kindle

>> No.10738890

>>10738755
underrated post

>> No.10738892

>>10738685
A receipt at the moment

>> No.10738906

I tear a small piece of paper that I have no use for anymore.

>> No.10738908

>>10738781
Nah, just lazy

>> No.10738924

Pokemon or yugioh card

>> No.10738945
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A Brazilian 10 reais note.

>> No.10739072

I used a Colombian 2,000 peso note.

Had a bookmark but not sure where it went.

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>>10739072

Pic related.

I have $200 worth in various foreign currencies; shit's all over my room.

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A copy of “Fear and Trembling”

>> No.10739674

>>10739081
The true patricians choice

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>> No.10739739

>>10738685
>not finishing a book in one sitting
fucking illiterates here, I swear

>> No.10739761

My kindle remembers where I left off

>> No.10739781

>>10739761
You're a big guy.

>> No.10739807

Folded paper I used for econ exercises.

>> No.10739810

>>10738685
I just remember the pagenr

>> No.10739855

>>10738748
You should touch receipts as little as possible, my dude

>> No.10739862

>>10738685
The free ones from Book Depository.

>> No.10739895

$100 hundred dollar bills
y'all must be poor or some shit

>> No.10739908

wife made a cute little paper fish for me back when we first met, so i use that

>> No.10739911

I've never grown accustomed to using one, as I actually find them kind of irritating.

>> No.10739913

Business cards

>> No.10739920

Receipts mostly. I’ve used card paper a few times.

>> No.10739922
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I just fold the corner of the page.

>> No.10739934

>>10739922
you don't

>> No.10739954

I use a butter knife to cut off the pages I've read, since I have no use for those anymore and it makes for light travelling

>> No.10739985

I use an elegant, shiny metal bookmark for my main read and printed cardstock bookmarks with paintings on them that I ordered in bulk on AliExpress to mark pages in my backup reads or books that I only pick up on occasion. Every book I own has a paper bookmark like that.

>> No.10740005

>>10738685
old code card for my popops truck and some other concert tickets.

>> No.10740202

>>10738685
I once used an old pay-stub as a bookmark for Atlas Shrugged out of irony. Normally I just dog-ear the page I stop on.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system

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True patrician coming through boys. Only way to go.

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>>10738685

>> No.10740214

>>10738781
thats not even maths...

>> No.10740218
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Don't need a bookmark

If you never read.

>> No.10740344

>>10740202
If you want to dogear personal copies go ahead, but don't be the dickhead who does that to library books

>> No.10740442

>>10738781
>looking at page numbers

Disdain

>> No.10740478

>>10738685
A used condom

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>>10738685
>Spanish theatre ticket
>translated version of a Argentinian book

what the hell OP

>> No.10740494

>>10738685
Tare out the last blank page

>> No.10740513

Train tickets

I have a lot of them

>> No.10740520

My cum sock

>> No.10740523

>>10738685
Usually I just grab the nearest postcard and a pair of scissors and cut a small piece for a bookmark.

>> No.10740545

A big greenbriar leaf I pressed last summer. Cool conversation piece if nothing else

>> No.10740565

>>10740488
I realized the humor of that after I posted it but was starting to think nobody would notice.

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>>10740213
This.

>> No.10740705

Index card.

>> No.10740708

>>10739922
No joke, I used to do this

>> No.10740789

>>10740708
acceptable for chapters or other fundamental divisions

>> No.10741033
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>> No.10741070

i cut those cardboard postcards that come in magaziens in half and use them

i have like a million in an envelope. perfect size and thiccness

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>>10739081
I do something similar.

>> No.10741754

I honestly fold the page. What is the point of a bookmark? Very unnecessary, that I can tell you. I also throw away the book jacket, or whatever you call it. It annoys me and gets in the way.

>> No.10741789

>>10740708
I used to as well, but to be fair I only ever read books that I could finish in a couple sittings anyway, so it only ever happened to a few pages

>> No.10742891

>>10738685
Lithium remembers what's the last page I read silly.

>> No.10742917

the shit bookdepo includes in their orders

>> No.10742940

>>10741033
>reading every book at a sitting
Literally impossible if you're reading difficult things.

>> No.10742953

>>10740708
It's fine with cheap paperbacks IMO

>> No.10742959

>>10742940
Heh. Maybe for brainlets

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Don't really use bookmarks, basically the top sites on my new tabs are all I need

>> No.10743228

>>10738945
>>10739072
>>10739076

these are the only patrician answers

>> No.10743323

>>10740488

>bullfighting
>theater

>> No.10743337

A condom

you just never know

>> No.10743386

>>10738685
I usually just rip out the pages when I get done reading them so when I stop reading and want to pick it back up again I just open the book.

>> No.10743393

>>10740207
me too, anon
<3

>> No.10743901

A laminated array of foreign postage stamps depicting faux Frazetta paintings of half naked female barbarians

>> No.10743959

a train ticket from 上野 to 水戸市

>> No.10743970

>>10739855
why is that my guy?

>> No.10744404

>>10738685
tissue, used of course

>> No.10745086
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>> No.10745099

Sauce

>> No.10745161

I spit on the page so when I open it, the ones stuck together are where I finished.

>> No.10745827

I re-read back up to where I was.

>> No.10746390
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I use whatever bookmark I have on hand. I'm currently using this Book Depository one.

>> No.10746838

>>10746390
I'm using a Book Depository one too :)

>> No.10746855

>>10738685
depends, yes if it is not my book. but if it is mine I just fold the tip.

>> No.10747615

>>10738685
Uncooked strips of bacon.

>> No.10747656

random scraps of paper. i usually leave bookmarks in my books on the shelf after i finish them. at a glance i see a few receipts, some train tickets, a post-it note, clothing tags, a tissue, and an actual bookmark with a bible verse that my mom bought me

>> No.10747663

>>10738685
I tear out the blank pages of the book I am reading and use that.

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I am my bookmark
> yeah I know I look stupid

>> No.10747726

>>10747711
Books are for white men, please vacate the premises.

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>> No.10747778

I use the receipt.

>> No.10747779
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>>10747711
No this is classic. I like it.

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>>10747726
well I sexually identity as aryian

>> No.10747792

>>10747783
Fuck Aryan*. Hate the iphone

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>> No.10747805

>>10747792
he hate the western product

>> No.10747813

>>10747805
Except it's manufactured in China so eat my hairy ass

>> No.10747820

>>10747813
he hate the oriental product

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>>10738685
pic related or whatever's in arms reach

>> No.10750618

a condom filled with my sperm

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>>10738685
I used to use whatever I had laying around, usually receipts, flyers, torn up notes I didn't need anymore, stuff like that.
I've switched to using things like these now, far more pleasant desu.

>> No.10750656

>>10738781
I do that when I'm only reading two or three books at the same time, it's just a distraction and some of the memory imprints are stronger than the others so you'll permanently clutter your brain with shit like "Moby Dick, page 60, or was it 80". I don't want that to be my mantra when I get Alzheimer's, I want my simple and profound memories to be actually fun.

>> No.10750662

Queen of Hearts

>> No.10750976

>>10741754
>>10741754
So you don't damage the book like an subhuman.

>> No.10751413

The joker card

>> No.10751988

I put a condom whenever I read Lolita just in case.

>> No.10752081

>>10738685
bookmarks are for plebs, i cover every word in each line with a black marker as i read

>> No.10752115

how come latin americans are into literature and read so much more than north americans or at least seem to? they are extremely over-represented here. latin america might low-key be earth's most /lit/ place

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Pokemon cards that match the color of the book cover

>> No.10753581

>>10752115
no money for tvs

>> No.10753592

I just read chapter by chapter, if I can't remember the contents of a page I'm better off rereading it anyway.

>> No.10753854

>>10752115
What do Latin Americans have to do with this thread?

>> No.10753990

Folded scraps of paper, receipts, assorted trash. I only own one actual bookmark bookmark.

>> No.10754013

A strip of card stock

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for a long time it was one of those free personalized business cards you get get printed online that had some random bullshit on it I would hand out to girls at keggers. then I started using some bahama bucks. then I just wised up and dogmarked the page or stopped at chapter ends. Now I don't even worry I can pass out when reading my kindle saves the spot for me.

>> No.10754024

>>10752115
Are you actually insane? I don't know where you live, but Brazil is nowhere near a /lit/ place in terms of readership and scholarship. And since Brazil represents more than half of South America, and I don't believe some Caribbean nations or mountain-people from Andes are literate, I'll have to doubt your assertion and just tell you you're wrong.

>> No.10754033

>>10754024
in buenos aires they had freud books at the newstands. harry potter would be highbrow for a newstand here in the states

>> No.10754037

>>10738781
Why bother about remembering a particular number all day and riffling through the pages when you can just stuff a piece of paper in the book?

>> No.10754043

ITT:
>writing in the margins is okay but folding the corner isn't

>> No.10754106

I use Paris metro tickets and secretly hope somebody will ask me about them
Nobody has

>> No.10754577

>>10747769
>Those words
Awww

>> No.10754584

>>10752115
At least in Mexico's case, it is mostly on Spanish language patriotism, especially Spanish majors in Mexico.

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>> No.10755743

>>10738882
>Kindle
rather big for a bookmark

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If I recall correctly, such pieces of black paper were usially among the receipts for cloches. They're stirdier than plain paper, but not as thick as cardboard/credit cards. And they're not too big or too small. Plus they're plain black. I like them.

>> No.10755878

The book I'm reading next. Chain reading. Only works if the next book is small.

>> No.10755882

>>10752115
Computer and gaming parts have huge tariffs

>> No.10755895

>>10738685
a joker from a pack of bicycle playing cards, they're pretty uncommon in the UK

>> No.10755911

>>10747711
Its nice, it looks like you have pleasant family.

Id delete it before the shitposters come and make trouble due to your sister

>> No.10756083

>>10738685
My big, hard cock.

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i found this one in bob dylan’s “chronicles vol 1” from the library once. i’ve never been there but i love it just the same

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>> No.10757655

Kafka museum ticket

>> No.10757712
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Playing cards. Usually this one.

The Suicide King

>> No.10757722

>>10739081
>>10741381

Using another book as your bookmark. The only truly /lit/ choice.

>> No.10757727

>>10742940
It's possible but don't do it
Read lotr fotr in one sitting and wanted to puke afterwards and had headaches for a week after that

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Got this from a nice christian fellow when I used to cut lawns. Not religious but it looks nice

>> No.10757850

I don't. I simply reread from the start each time. Each time I get faster and faster until I finish the book in one sitting.

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>>10754023
>then I just wised up and dogmarked
You filthy ape

>> No.10758562

book darts, idiots

>> No.10758828

>>10741381
underrated post

>> No.10758896

>>10755895
No they aren't desu just walk into a shop like Waterstones or forbidden planet you pleb

>> No.10758900

>>10758519
Who is this? Why is this so? More!

>> No.10760436

>>10740213
What the fuck

>> No.10760961

>>10738685
>Manolete
Is that Spanish for manlet?

>> No.10762487

>>10738685
I'm the kind of discusting people who folds a page.

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>>10758562
This

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>> No.10762831

>>10749536
fucking leaf

how are you enjoying it so far?

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