Bookmarks

[Anonymous No.11362265]

What do your bookmarks look like? Any special story on how you got it? Did you make your own? Do you like defacing books by folding the edges?

I’ve been using scratch paper like this to do list to mark my pages but I’m switching to the one on the right that I handmade

[Anonymous No.11362278]

>>11362265
I used to made bookmarks in school but I still reuse one from the american embassy in argentina

[Anonymous No.11362281]

I just use whatever Amazon sends along with the book.

[Anonymous No.11362291]

Literally just use whatever is around. Mostly little scraps of paper ripped off of some larger piece of paper. Occasionally I’ll pick up a free one from the library. I’ve used grass before. Photos people have given me. It’s all the same to me. I tend to lose them so I never use anything of value to me.

[Anonymous No.11362292]

Receipts, pieces of paper, page tears, etc.
Recently a friend gifted me a bookmark in the shape of a geisha, but it was bulky and my ended up damaging it.

[Anonymous No.11362296]

>>11362265
I use a rose because I'm gay

[Anonymous No.11362343]

>>11362291
Does the grass stain the pages though? Also I like the idea of using an old photo

[Anonymous No.11362447]

>>11362343
Not if it’s dry grass. Also I wouldn’t care if it did, so long as it’s still readable.
Old photos are kind of comfy, but like I said I lose bookmarks frequently so I never use any of like my dead dog or mother or something important. Just like a picture of some shoes or like near-strangers’ kids that they sent me in a Christmas card.

[Anonymous No.11362622]

Have a bunch of these from Book City in Toronto, they were all my dad's. He was the biggest reader I've ever known, but I didn't get into reading until after he died. It depresses me to read books of his that I know he loved, that I now love, and not be able to discuss them with him.
But at least I can feel some connection to him by using his bookmarks, and it makes me laugh.

[Anonymous No.11362638]

>>11362265
I use orphan playing cards

[Anonymous No.11362644]

A knife.

[Anonymous No.11362645]

i use ones from my local used bookstore

on the back i write all the words that i dont know or interest me then i transfer them into flashcards or enter them into vocabulary.com

its a nice site and it lets me make lists for each book.

[Anonymous No.11362650]

>>11362638
God tier

[Anonymous No.11362663]

>>11362622
That's touching, it's fortunate you have that connection

[Anonymous No.11362685]

I use a Peppa Pig bookmark that I got for free the last time I ordered books online. Fuck you

[Anonymous No.11362694]

>>11362645
That’s a good idea. I usually have my phone out to quickly search up words but it interrupts my reading

[Anonymous No.11362731]

>>11362685
book suppository nice. I have like 100 of their bookmarks.

[Anonymous No.11362782]

>>11362265
i dont

[Anonymous No.11362843]

I use business cards from restaurants I've visited.

[Anonymous No.11362876]

>>11362843
pseud/10

[Anonymous No.11363361]

100$ bills.
If the book is interesting enough it stays until I'm done reading it or I rip it out and leave that book half read.

[Anonymous No.11363386]

>>11362265
i used to use strips of paper but now i just use those gay little bookmarks from bookdepisotroy since i have million of htem

[Anonymous No.11363387]

>>11362265
reading Kafka on the Shore now (pretty good anime), and i'm using one of those kids books bookmarks from book depository, one with "the tale of kitty in boots"

[Anonymous No.11363388]

>>11363387
>pretty good anime
my sides

[Anonymous No.11363441]

You people are boring. I care about my bookmarks and like using a combination of ones I get from bookstores, art exhibits, overseas, and book darts (the true patrician way to keep your place).

[Anonymous No.11363507]

>>11362265
i don't actually need to use bookmarks, since I remember the page numbers, but I've ended up with a few of my own. I bought jewelry making stuff and made a bookmark for fun and practice, but my favorite bookmark is this thing.

[Anonymous No.11363582]

>>11363441
Holy fuck a Dickson one. How's it going Fayetteville anon

[Anonymous No.11364004]

>>11362843
Look at that subtle off-white coloring, the tasteful wrinkles on it...
Oh my god, it even is a bookmark!

[Anonymous No.11364430]

>>11362843
When did a nitwit like you get so tasteful?

[Anonymous No.11364487]

>>11362638
I use tarot cards, slowly building an association between the book and whatever card was draw.

[Anonymous No.11364546]

That little piece of foil that you rip off a fresh pack of cigarettes or something that pertains to the book I'm reading.

[Anonymous No.11364562]

>>11363582
It goes well fellow anon. Haven't been in F-ville for years but man, I miss it and that bookstore. Truly god-tier. Good to know there are other Arkansans that aren't drooling idiots.

[Anonymous No.11364621]

>>11364546
>fresh pack of cigarettes
this pseud doesn't roll his own and use a paper as a bookmark

[Anonymous No.11364674]

>>11364621
I did that too

[Anonymous No.11364691]

>>11364487
i too use tarot cards, reading moby dick right now with the empress

[Anonymous No.11365101]

>>11362265
I'll use the receipt for the book as it's own bookmarker. That way there's a record of when and where I got it, and how much I paid. I have books dating back to the early 70s in my collection with the original receipt in them.

[Anonymous No.11365126]

>>11362265
I use a korean ornamented metal bookmark that an ex-girlfriend who I still love gifted me. It reminds me of her whenever I read.

[Anonymous No.11365160]

>>11362265
today i bought a secondhand book published in 1986 and discovered this old information leaflet about AIDS, which was published by the government around the same time, tucked inside it.

[Anonymous No.11365162]

>>11365101
good idea

[Anonymous No.11365180]

>>11365160
wash your hands stat

[Anonymous No.11365187]

My bookmark is a souvenir I bought in marocco.

[Anonymous No.11365197]

I use one of the hundred bookmarks i got shipped with the book 'for free'

[Anonymous No.11365202]

>>11365197
based

[Anonymous No.11365206]

>>11362265
I just remember my page

[Anonymous No.11365213]

I use a lot of different things, notes, tickets, actual bookmark, wire, etc.
But I use a different bookmark for every book and I keep it in the book when I'm finished with it

[Anonymous No.11365244]

>>11365213
Correct.

[Anonymous No.11365306]

>>11365126
thats depressing shit that my man, try an remove the object from the sentimentality

[Anonymous No.11365319]

>>11362265
i had a french class in high school that would give out laminated fake euros for participation points, and i kept one of them, and one side has print on it and the other side doesnt, so i can put the bookmark horizantally with the non-print side facing the reader to mark my specific line. also when i read i pull the euro down as i go line-by-line, which is a habit i have not been able to lose for years.

[Anonymous No.11366113]

Just finish a chapter every reading session and memorize it lmao

[Anonymous No.11366334]

>>11362843

[Anonymous No.11366355]

>>11362265
I use the one that my dead aunt gave me. Quite heavy duty and has a nice message handwritten from her on the back. I like to read it sometimes. But other times I avoid looking at the writing because it makes me depressed. Strangely enough, seeing pictures of her is completely numbing.

[Anonymous No.11366922]

I use clothes price tags and I tend to buy bookmarks from the places I go on vacation. I don't use the same twice and whenever I lend someone a book I gift them a bookmark I've already used that I don't like that much

[Anonymous No.11366926]

>>11362622
wow that's pretty personal and sad, man. sorry <3 <3 <3

[Anonymous No.11366955]

>>11362645
that's nice! i mostly read on kindle so i got used to just highlighting words, but i rarely go back to them. this seems like a better idea

[Anonymous No.11366957]

>>11363507
cool bookmark
but autist alert

[Anonymous No.11366973]

>>11365160
that' the best thing

[Anonymous No.11366981]

Another book

[Anonymous No.11367358]

>>11362265
I use a simple one made of card, and I sribbled a sentence or words that either comes from the book that sums it up, or a conclusion that I thought up about the book.
The next time I read the book again I'd look at my bookmark and try to reconstruct the book by memorizing why I scribbled the words. If I can't, I try to read the book again and finding out why. If I feel it's not suitable, i make a new one baded on new conclusion.