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9057744

Anonymous Sat Feb 4 00:45:20 2017 No.9057744 [Reply] [Original]

Index cards are the best bookmarks.

Period.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 00:46:47 2017 No.9057749 I prefer to fold sticky notes in half

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 00:47:26 2017 No.9057750 >not one dollar bill or whatever the equivalent is in your country

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 00:49:15 2017 No.9057753 >>9057749 Hmm. Nice. >>9057750 I actually did that once, but I never finished the book. I ran out of money.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 00:56:32 2017 No.9057769 File: 130 KB, 757x505, joker[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dogears the page

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 00:56:46 2017 No.9057770 File: 1.12 MB, 2816x2112, dog-ear.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Superior page-keeping method coming through

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 00:57:50 2017 No.9057771 >>9057769 >>9057770 Mindhive

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 00:58:06 2017 No.9057776 >>9057770 What book is that desu

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 01:00:51 2017 No.9057790 >>9057776 How To Be An Enormous Faggot by Thomas Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 01:02:33 2017 No.9057795 >>9057744 Cards

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 01:03:39 2017 No.9057799 >>9057744 >not a perfectly torn square of toilet paper

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 01:15:51 2017 No.9057834 I use a business card.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 01:20:15 2017 No.9057841 >>9057795 This. Only seconded to remembering where you left off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 02:04:41 2017 No.9057990 >>9057790 no really

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 02:07:17 2017 No.9058000 >>9057744 I use a small ruler that has the name of my great grandfather's bank on it, it's aluminum, very thin, and about 2 inches long, and a third of an inch wide. Ob jec tiv ely perfect.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 02:13:13 2017 No.9058020 I use a trainer card from the Gym Heroes TCG set

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 02:13:16 2017 No.9058021 >>9057744 I agree.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 02:16:48 2017 No.9058035 >>9057749 I just did this for the first time ever today.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 02:30:59 2017 No.9058074 >>9057744 anyone else use the reciept paper from the book purchase? >>9057770 fucking degenerate

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 02:37:50 2017 No.9058092 >>9057795 This is the actual patrician choice.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:02:36 2017 No.9058188 > not having a bookmark collection It's like you guys hate fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:29:51 2017 No.9058309 >>9058074 Receipts are so convenient. One of merge book shops I go to gives bookmarks with every purchase though so I mostly use those.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:37:06 2017 No.9058323 >>9058074 >>9058309 http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/10/22/common-receipt-paper-contains-bpa-study-says.html :(

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:39:55 2017 No.9058331 I just dogear my pages. They're mine, anyway, and I'll do whatever I want with them. Books aren't sacred anymore since ebooks were invented so my answer to "Which book would you bring if your house was burning down" is now "None of them".

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:41:58 2017 No.9058338 >>9057770 I do this for books I own.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:47:53 2017 No.9058355 >>9058188 If only you'd gotten just a few more wedgies as a child maybe you wouldn't be inclined to do something so profoundly gay.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 03:51:50 2017 No.9058370 >>9058188 collector tier here. brings me back to my favorite visits to strange bookstores.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 04:22:19 2017 No.9058467 >>9058323 >foxnews apparently its legit though. damn. looks like i gotta find a suitable replacement for receipt paper.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 04:23:24 2017 No.9058471 >>9058331 If your house was burning down I wouldn't bring you out of it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 06:51:20 2017 No.9058776 >>9058467 I linked fox because anything else could be FAKE NEWS. Sad. Stay healthy litbro.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 07:19:21 2017 No.9058833 >>9057744 after using index cards for about 3 hours i can confirm. they're by far the best. >i can also write out notes and page numbers on them. almost makes me not want to ceremoniously thow it away when im done with the book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 07:21:23 2017 No.9058838 >piece of paper isn't the most patrician it's like you've never toilet-read

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 07:31:08 2017 No.9058864 >>9058838 Don't you find the shit makes the pages stick together when it dries?

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 14:41:45 2017 No.9060335 >>9058833 >because you only need it for one book retard

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 15:21:48 2017 No.9060519 >>9060335 i always throw whatever bookmark i use away when im done with the book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 15:36:27 2017 No.9060603 File: 12 KB, 427x284, ribbon-marker-ribbon-bookmark.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why don't more books have these? It's so simple and effective.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:13:40 2017 No.9060748 File: 1.42 MB, 2592x1936, IMG_0017.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9058355 Psychologically damaged receiver of corporal punishment detected.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:14:13 2017 No.9060753 >>9060603 thats like a whole other thing you gotta stitch in.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:14:50 2017 No.9060757 File: 191 KB, 1200x1200, easton press.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9060603 I have an irrational, autistic hatred for those things. I've even cut them off before.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:26:29 2017 No.9060813 >>9057744 No, it's the lint which comes with the hardcover

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:29:50 2017 No.9060833 >>9057744 >not folding pieces of blank copy paper into perfectly sized bookmarks for any book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:34:20 2017 No.9060852 >>9057750 a loonie lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:34:40 2017 No.9060854 >>9057744 >not using $100 bills

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:34:56 2017 No.9060855 >>9060833 The patrician choice

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:36:12 2017 No.9060865 I just rip off the page tbqh

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:55:32 2017 No.9060963 >>9060865 >reading through a book >finish a page >tear it out completely >the book gets lighter and easier to carry around >by the end the entire book is gone

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 16:59:17 2017 No.9060980 >He needs bookmarks of any sort >He doesn't just finish the book in one sitting I'm surrounded by plebs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Feb 4 18:14:25 2017 No.9061367 >>9060963 genius