/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13355587]

What type of bookmarks do you guys own?
Post it

[Anonymous No.13355595]

>Bookmarks
Just fold the page or put your wank tissue in, faggot

[Anonymous No.13355625]

>>13355595
>Just fold the page
>faggot
Im sorry, why would i damage library property, what am I? The same as you? a n____?

[Anonymous No.13355755]

>>13355625
>arcissist

[Anonymous No.13355774]

[Anonymous No.13355795]

I use the paint match cards you get from the hardware store

[Anonymous No.13355798]

>>13355774
based Wordsworth Classics reader

[Anonymous No.13355804]

>>13355587

[Anonymous No.13355807]

I just write "bookmark" on an index card and use that.

[Anonymous No.13355809]

>>13355587
Business cards from stores or the receipt from the library.

[Anonymous No.13355813]

>>13355807

[Anonymous No.13355817]

Something I've been given or stolen

[Anonymous No.13355827]

>>13355587
Mine says "ALL /lit/ MODS ARE COCKSUCKING FAGGOTS".

[Anonymous No.13355847]

Wish i were home so i could contribute with some pics but yea i have some i got from china that have some pretty script on them with old chinese illustrations and i also use some small index card sized cards with some other cool illustrations on their backs
Now that im on vacation i just remember what chapter i have finished reading last time and start from there

[Anonymous No.13355854]

>>13355587
i like the ones you get free when you order stuff from book depository

[Anonymous No.13355859]

>>13355587
I just use a cardstock coaster that breweries give away.

[Anonymous No.13355864]

>>13355587
I don't think I've owned a bookmark since middle school. Just remember the fucking page number

[Anonymous No.13355869]

I just use a hundred dollar bill so the thots in mcdonalds look at me when I'm readine movie novelizations

[Anonymous No.13355874]

>>13355807

[Anonymous No.13355892]

using this card thingy from a restaurant on one of the Venetian islands from when I went there and had a really nice day two summers ago

[Anonymous No.13355955]

random bulk mtg cards I have laying around

[Anonymous No.13356084]

>>13355955
Based and Mepilled

[Anonymous No.13356098]

>>13355587
I use the ones i find forgotten in the used books i've bought

[Anonymous No.13356116]

I have some old Tarot cards that I use for some books, but the best ones are those little magnetic tab ones. Nevermind all the stupid designs, I use simple arrow ones and I really like them.

[Anonymous No.13356183]

>>13355587
I used to put in my nose-wiping tissues as a kid. Now I just put in the nearest flat or thin object

[Anonymous No.13356223]

>>13355587
since i only read porn magazines, the first page that is not covered with cum.

[Anonymous No.13356250]

I make my own, and I also use playing cards.

[Anonymous No.13356256]

>>13356250
based

[Anonymous No.13356269]

I never leave the house without a handful of these bad boys

[Anonymous No.13356341]

>>13355587
Triangle tear off tissue paper

[Anonymous No.13356423]

I use old metro tickets or business cards

[Anonymous No.13356466]

I've used the same one since highschool, at least on the main book I'm reading. The one I'm reading now has a ribbon bookmark though, so it's sitting in what I'm looking forward to next.

[Anonymous No.13356474]

My waterstones member card and some book depository ones

[Anonymous No.13356477]

>>13355587
I use the ones bookdepository sends me with my books

[Anonymous No.13356501]

>>13355587
Just memorize the page fag

[Anonymous No.13356508]

EHEHHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEH
ME LIKE HARERY POTDAH
HEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHHEHE
VOLD-VOLD-VOLDAAAAAAAAAAAAMORRRR-RR-TTT

[Anonymous No.13356520]

>>13356477
same

[Anonymous No.13356522]

>>13356466
What book?

[Anonymous No.13356526]

>>13355587
I just rip the corner and fold that part up. When I change pages I just fold it back down.

[Anonymous No.13356597]

>>13356223
based and jizzpilled

[Anonymous No.13356859]

I have a Monet bookmark from the Art History Museum in Chicago.

[Anonymous No.13356861]

[Anonymous No.13356866]

>>13356466
Looks comfy my man

[Anonymous No.13356867]

>>13356269
Autism

[Anonymous No.13356893]

>>13356522
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land by Melville. I was surprised to find out he wrote an epic poem and had to get it.

[Anonymous No.13356906]

>>13356501
+1 I only have two book marks that I regularly use. Other books that I read I just memorize.

Henry Kissinger, World Order, Chapter 3, Page 96.

[Anonymous No.13356907]

I have a futuristic 3D bookmark with a shark taking a ferocious chomp at different stages depending on which way you tilt it. A picture would not do it justice. It also has a ruler on the back. It's fucking bad ass.

[Anonymous No.13356914]

Playing cards, random bookmarks from unis, index cards if I’m using it in a research project.

[Anonymous No.13356949]

These are pretty useful

[Anonymous No.13356989]

>>13356861
based and naturepilled

[Anonymous No.13357054]

>>13355595
>Fold the page
You're disgusting.


Once when I was a kid I lost my bookmark, and ended up using the peel-off piece of carboard from a box of tissues. They've been my go-to ever since.

[Anonymous No.13357060]

>>13356861
>shreds of a four leafed clover for Finnegans Wake

[Anonymous No.13357067]

>>13355625
>Niggers using libraries
Come on litbro

[Anonymous No.13357350]

A polaroid of my gf

[Anonymous No.13357505]

>>13357067
>be me
>walk into library
>pass by the computer section
>always at least one nigger doing drugs or watching porn

[Anonymous No.13357513]

>>13356116
I use to use these all the time.

[Anonymous No.13357565]

currently a CVS receipt that i found under my bed. i was using a tissue but ran out and then had to masturbate last night

[Anonymous No.13357641]

>>13355587

I don't use them too much but I have several handy. When I do read, I can easily remember page number/area I left off, and a re-read of surrounding pages when I pick something back up is good.

My favorite (though I never use it) is a big AKIRA bookmark which I got when when I bought a volume of the Dark Horse manga years ago. I have several from a local occult bookstore where I've picked up multiple Crowley books and a few other books of general bullshit/nonsense for personal amusement (fuck you, I Do What I Want). A few smaller red bookmarks from a local commie infoshop (purchases: Society of Spectacle, Grundrisse, Capital V.2). Other general bookstore ones that I got with purchases.

They are pure ornaments, but there they sit on top of the fridge, in a glass.. I use the smaller ones occasionally, but during work breaks I've taken to using small pieces of card-stock which come with the signage that we use. Use the available material, which will only otherwise become trash.

[Anonymous No.13357649]

>>13356250

I respect your DIY craft but I disagree with the choice of a playing card as medium. A bookmark (if one even bothers using one to begin with) should be a tall-skinny thing, because that way it will tend to stay lodged in place even if the book is moved or bashed about a bit. A playing card covered with what looks like smooth tape is much more liable to easily fall out.

[Anonymous No.13357743]

I'll normally tear a small strip of paper from my desk and use that, keeping a log on the bookmark of the days I read whatever book as well as how much each day. Then, I keep that bookmark and put it with the rest of my collection.

[Anonymous No.13358018]

>>13357565
>had to
The sad existence of the cumbrain.

[Anonymous No.13358021]

I read hardcovers so rip up bits of the book rapper to use as a book mark.

[Anonymous No.13358023]

>>13355587
those magnetic bookmarks from b&n

[Anonymous No.13358024]

>>13355587
I use bus tickets as bookmarks, not only is it convenient, it is also a neat way to track my reading history.

[Anonymous No.13358031]

church cards or pieces of nice cardboard.

[Anonymous No.13358034]

>>13358018
i do it once a week usually on sundays what's your bookmark faggot

[Anonymous No.13358035]

>>13355774
Based Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.13358071]

>>13355807
redpilled

[Anonymous No.13358084]

>>13355587
I use a bic pen. I look up words Idk and write definitions on the page. Obviously not in library books.
Sometimes I write down thoughts I have but not all that often.

[Anonymous No.13358103]

I don't have a nice bookmark. I usually just use a failes Instax frame or scrap of paper

[Anonymous No.13358104]

>>13358034
Hard cover book rapper bits.

[Anonymous No.13358192]

I use old receipts

[Anonymous No.13358197]

>>13357350
This is really cute ngl... God I miss my ex

[Anonymous No.13358201]

>>13355587
I just remember the pages. How fucking senile are you guys?

[Anonymous No.13358208]

>>13358201
i would do that, but the number keeps changing every time i read any more

[Anonymous No.13358214]

>>13355587
Flattened cigarette pack

[Anonymous No.13358229]

>>13355587

>He doesn't assert dominance by ripping out the pages that he's already read so that by the end of the book nobody else can read it.

[Anonymous No.13358236]

>>13358229
this is actually a fun idea

[Anonymous No.13358244]

Cigarette paper from rolling

[Anonymous No.13358245]

I spit on the page and slam the book shut VERY hard. The pages are then stuck to each other, but I've memorised it line for line so I don't need to read it again.

[Anonymous No.13358246]

>>13355955
Same but Tarot cards

[Anonymous No.13358326]

>>13357505
>doing drugs at the library
absolute Infinite Jest IRL

[Anonymous No.13358347]

Coffee stirrers. They're free and plentiful if lost or broken, and can also be used as reading pointers.

[Anonymous No.13358350]

>>13356893
What edition is that? Also are you enjoying it?

[Anonymous No.13358351]

Serves me well.

[Anonymous No.13358353]

>>13358351
Faggot, why do you own a dildo in first place?

[Anonymous No.13358358]

>>13358353
It's a real mystery anon

[Anonymous No.13358368]

>>13358351
>story of the eye
>dildo
Truly you people are libertine.

[Anonymous No.13358377]

I use one I got from buying a book once and then random pieces of paper when I need more than that

[Anonymous No.13358389]

>>13355595
Masturbating is not /lit/.
Horrible habit.

[Anonymous No.13358396]

>>13356861
DUDE
WEEEEEEEED DUDE

LE WEED BOOK MARK.

THANK YOU LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. *HITS BONG* AND GOOD NIGHT.

[Anonymous No.13358414]

>>13358396
*ding ding ding*
And We Have a Winner!

[Anonymous No.13358489]

>>13358351
>his cock dangling
kek

[Anonymous No.13358530]

Bus tickets

Considering how I haven't caught a bus in a decade, I don't know where they keep coming from.

[Anonymous No.13358584]

>>13355587
I use a post-it. Fuck all fancy bullshit.

[Anonymous No.13358592]

Post-it flags. Good for remembering specifically where on the page I left off. Or just post its.

[Anonymous No.13358681]

Book Depository puts a cardboard one in every order so I've got dozens of these lying around, just use those.

[Anonymous No.13358694]

>>13358681
shockingly decent

[Anonymous No.13358712]

>>13358681
one time they fucked up and gave me too many, pretty based

[Anonymous No.13358720]

>>13358681
>Book Depository
What are the benefits over amazon or my local shop?

[Anonymous No.13358723]

>>13358712
too many as in 3 or 50?

[Anonymous No.13358726]

>>13355804
I have one of these.

[Anonymous No.13358733]

>>13356423
Too small

[Anonymous No.13358740]

>>13358723
bought 2 books and got like 10 of them

[Anonymous No.13358742]

>>13358021
The dust cover?

[Anonymous No.13358744]

>>13358726
they're cool

>>13358740
cool

[Anonymous No.13358750]

Got it in Florence.

[Anonymous No.13358753]

a small piece of tempered wood with a leaf in it, stolen from a bazaar in Trieste

[Anonymous No.13358774]

>>13358753
why would you steal from a bazar bro what are you fucking aladdin
it's like 1 rupie or a fig or whatever just pay the merchant

[Anonymous No.13358803]

>>13356116
Why magnetic? You put the page between the magnets?

[Anonymous No.13358812]

>>13358229
Just burn the book afterwards
t. german

[Anonymous No.13358871]

[Anonymous No.13358986]

>>13355587
Usually just a piece of paper folded in half. Handy for keeping little notes in too.

[JN !!vXXhA/qzhjm No.13358988]

>>13355587
>Post it
That's right anon, I use a Post-it

[Anonymous No.13359001]

Film stump

[Anonymous No.13359026]

>>13358720
Nothing if you are a Yank or a Brit.

[Anonymous No.13359043]

>>13358720
your local shop: some dumb fuck boomer takes 20 years to type your book into the computer like you would at home, only much slower
you need to walk to and from the store twice

compared to amazon the main benefit is that they make books like 1cent cheaper, you get free bookmarks and, most importantly, you are more likely to get the exact edition you want (compared to amazon third parties) and I've never gotten a book get fucked up during shipping from them while that has happened a couple times with amazon
they are owned by amazon in case you were not aware, and their "free shipping" is a scam

[Anonymous No.13359056]

>>13358988
You clever goose

[Anonymous No.13359950]

I kind of collect them..
Those are some of my favourites:

[Anonymous No.13359960]

>>13358774
fuck off faggot you miserable nolit shit

[Anonymous No.13360175]

>>13359950
How do you get them? Do you buy them or do they give them out for free?

[Anonymous No.13360225]

I got this Monet one from my local Omaha art museum. I also have numerous others from Half Priced Books that just have their logo on it, but I do find some really unique ones hidden in used books that I purchase. One has a black Labrador on it and says “i’ll Be here” or something.

[Anonymous No.13360233]

>>13360225
Forgot the photo

[Anonymous No.13360244]

>>13360175
A mix of everything. I bought some in bookstores, some for free, museums,souvenir shops..

[Anonymous No.13360294]

>>13356477
>>13356520
>bookdepository

I have shitload from them, wish they stop sending me bookmarks

[Anonymous No.13360343]

>>13359950
Catalufo comeme el culo

[Anonymous No.13360374]

Serious question as a first time on lit

Why do you guys buy books instead of going to the library?

[Anonymous No.13360386]

>>13360374
I do it because I live in Denmark and my library does not have a very wide selection of books in other languages than Danish.
I go there if I want to read a Danish author.

[Anonymous No.13360390]

>>13360374
I only buy books if they're thick and require longer periods to be fully read (see Infinite Jest)

[Anonymous No.13360412]

>>13360386
My library has a thing where if they dont have a book, they ask sister libraries for it.

>>13360390
And can check out a book for up to 3 months

[Illinois]

[Anonymous No.13360445]

>>13360374
Not everyone has a catalog of books in their library as large as say the NYPL

[Anonymous No.13360457]

>>13360445
FeelsBadMan

[Anonymous No.13360471]

>>13360457
People really don't give enough credit to that library system. It has basically everything; if you can't physically leave with the book you can read it on campus at Bryant Park which is immaculate and comfy.

[Anonymous No.13360474]

>>13355587
MTG cards of no value

[Anonymous No.13360482]

>>13358351
Based and cockpilled

[Anonymous No.13360493]

>>13359950
"és"
???

[Anonymous No.13360498]

>>13358353
>Reading trashy erotic literature
>Owns a dildo
I'll give you three(3) guesses.

[Anonymous No.13360547]

>>13360374
My local library sucks. Hardly any books, hard to find parking, filled with homeless people that aren't really there to read so they come talk to you, nowhere to sit by yourself. Like I don't have a problem with them being there but I'm not going to a library to chat. I want to find the most isolated corner and forget my surroundings entirely. Even if I just pick up books they usually don't have a copy so I've got to reserve it and get it sent from another branch, deal with parking, etc.
I also look up words I don't know and write their definitions in the book. Sometimes I'll have a thought and write it down but not that often.
I often buy books for $.50-4.00 at thrift stores. People are always buying classics and throwing them out unread.

[Anonymous No.13360557]

>>13360547
>>13360471
>>13360445
>>13360412

I have 2 library cards, since Ive lived in different towns. They have separate sister libraries, so I can pretty much find every book I want from 30 different libraries.

One library has a park and field next to it, so I can just go sit on the benches or below a tree.
Gonna be sad once I move out of this state just for this sole reason

[Anonymous No.13360558]

>unironically using bookmarks
Can't you just remember the page? I read until the end of the latest chapter before I put the book down.

[Anonymous No.13360566]

>>13360558
>he doesnt appreciate visual art AND the written word
>he isnt reading several books at once

[Anonymous No.13360585]

>>13360374
I do both. I’ll purchase books after I know my library doesn’t have what I want to read.

[Anonymous No.13360600]

>>13360558
I read at least two different books at a time, and sometimes I don’t pick up that book every day, so I may forget the page. I don’t have to give a shit about what page i’m on if I have a bookmark in it.

[Anonymous No.13360835]

I usually use free bookmarks from a book-off shop I'm used to go.

[Anonymous No.13360854]

>>13358750
I have an identical one I've been using for years.

[Anonymous No.13360863]

>>13360558
Extremely inefficient. Yes, I responded to your bait.

[Anonymous No.13361115]

>>13358720

Price. I just order from wherever is cheapest and they're sometimes cheaper than Amazon.

[Anonymous No.13361165]

>>13355587
I use cards.
Some from the FFTCG, a fair number of MTG stuffs.
This is my current one.

[Anonymous No.13361447]

>>13358584
>>13358592
>>13358988
Based Post-it chads

[Anonymous No.13361449]

>>13355587
I'm currently using an old railway ticket

[Anonymous No.13361461]

i use folded printer paper and invoices from online purchases, or if i'm desperate takeout menus.

[Anonymous No.13361608]

A pencil.

[Anonymous No.13361715]

>>13361608
Way to fuck up your book, ya doof

[Anonymous No.13362006]

>>13356949
Always this.

[Anonymous No.13362018]

>>13355892
tfw my genuine patrician choice is unacknowledged

[Anonymous No.13362334]

my old, bullet shot joker I used for about 10 years and the new one friends got me as a souvenir from their xmas travels.

[Anonymous No.13362662]

>why yes, I do just randomly remember the page, often forgetting the exact page by about 5 and then rereading the last ten minutes of last night's session, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.13363472]

>>13360374
To pass onto my children. I loved reading my mother's books when I was young.

[Anonymous No.13363482]

>>13355809
I use the receipt for my book mark and I told the pages for remembering, like if there’s a word I don’t know.

[Anonymous No.13363488]

>>13360374
I'm really busy with school. And my univeristy's library although nice is sort of a maze when it comes to finding books. They also don't have what I'm looking for.

[Anonymous No.13363547]

my bf made it for me :)

[Anonymous No.13364023]

>>13362334
Pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.13364077]

>>13355587
I highlight as I read

[Anonymous No.13364104]

The ones i get for free from Book Depository, or other book sellers.

[Anonymous No.13364465]

[Anonymous No.13364711]

>>13355892
I like it anon

[Anonymous No.13365128]

>>13355827
Based

[Anonymous No.13365604]

Doomer

[Anonymous No.13365715]

Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace Obi Wan bookmark that I've owned since that movie came out
I think I tried coloring Obi Wan back then but the material is this plastic stuff so there's no color that really sticks on there
It's a tall and skinny bookmark compared to the others I own

[Anonymous No.13365735]

i cut carboard piece into tall skinny shape

[Anonymous No.13365758]

>>13359950
>catal*nian

[Anonymous No.13365890]

>>13355864
edgy

[Anonymous No.13366206]

>>13356949
based choice of bookmark and location to eat

[Anonymous No.13366208]

>>13356861
What book is that?

[Anonymous No.13367545]

>>13358031
I use that same bookmarker for lolita

[Anonymous No.13367987]

>>13365758
>>Catalonians are the people from Catalonia

[Anonymous No.13368001]

>>13355587
The receipt from the purchase

[Anonymous No.13368215]

>using a bookmark more than once

Why you swines do this?

Don't you know that you're passing all the dirt from one book to another?
Let me explain, say you put off your bookmark to continue to read (for what else,duh)
Then where you put it? Your unclean table? Over that oily paperback cover over your desk? Or maybe in your bag filled with all kind of shit. Then you proceed to return it to the Book, with all the dusk and dirty scraps of the surface you just take it from and you've just made it, you just irrevocably mark your book with the sign of dirtiness forever.

Now just think of those who have use the same bookmark for years, all the shit that you have bestowed to all your books from one to another like whores

I seriously hope you guys kill yourselves

[Anonymous No.13368284]

In high school I used to make bookmarks out of lined paper. On one side, I'd write the title of the book and, whenever I found a page or a quote I liked, I'd write down the page number. On the other side, I'd usually design it based on whatever anime or manga I was also into at the time. I'd post them if I could find them, but it seems they've been lost for a few years now.

These days I either remember the page number or something around it, or I make sure to stop at significant moments (chapter breaks, character POV switches, etc.)

[Anonymous No.13368694]

>>13358681
same. Book depository has pretty good bookmarks. Last book they delivered to me came with a 100 dollar wine coupon and a fistful of dirt. Still don't know what was up with that.

[Anonymous No.13369267]

>>13360374
I do it to take notes in the book while reading and to reference back to at a later date, I usually write something up analyzing my thoughts on the book so having specific notes on specific quotes is nice.

Also when people come over I look smart lmao

[Anonymous No.13369329]

I have many that I could be using at any given time: free ones they throw in the book being purchased at the bookstore, transit passes/cards from various cities I've visited, unique business cards from local artists, old polaroids... I have a stack I keep on my bookshelf and I usually grab whichever one fits the mood of the book I'm reading. That said, I generally only use them at home, as a lot of them hold sentimental value to me and I'd hate for them to get damaged or lost in some way while out and about. I generally always remember my page/chapter number, plus I can't help but crack the spine almost every page so softcovers will always open right up to where I left off. I do this so I can fold the cover around and read one-handed.

I use this Klimt one a lot that I got at the Musée d'Orsay while studying abroad in Paris in 2015.

[Anonymous No.13369565]

Have sex

[Anonymous No.13369589]

>>13355955
I have a japanese butterfree card I've been using as a bookmark for years

[Anonymous No.13369621]

McDonald's receipt from the day my ex and I decided to break up lol

[Anonymous No.13369753]

>>13362662
Based and shoddy-memory-pilled

[Anonymous No.13369800]

How's this not been posted yet?

[Anonymous No.13369847]

>>13366208

[Anonymous No.13369860]

My sister drew me one with my fursona on one side and a picture of gondela sitting on a beach in front of the sunrise or sunset on the other.

[TSJ !ujoY1xUXb. No.13369882]

Just rip the pages out as you go so that when you open the front cover you are always on the right page.

[Anonymous No.13369911]

>>13358084
this is actually a good idea

[Anonymous No.13369919]

>>13360374
I usually buy used now so it's relatively cheap, and it lets me read at my own pace without having to worry about finishing and returning it in time

[Anonymous No.13369966]

I take a picture of the last page a read.

[Anonymous No.13370143]

>>13355587
I have a couple bookmarks with Botticelli paintings on them that I got as a gift.

[Anonymous No.13370152]

>>13358750
I think the Botticelli ones I mentioned >>13370143 are from the same series as this Leonardo one!

[Anonymous No.13370221]

>>13360374
Why would I leave home when I can order books to my house and read them? I'm not a poorfag either so a few books a month doesn't break the bank.

[Anonymous No.13370245]

>>13359001
What book is that? I'm interested

[Anonymous No.13370245,1]

>>13356508
MNM-DR WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO RECEIVE HELP