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Bookmarks

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WhereIsMyRollingPin · 31/12/2022 14:48

Not what we're reading but what we're marking the pages with.

My current bookmark in the novel I'm reading is the picture from a pretty greetings card. In a non-fiction book I'm reading slowly I'm using an unwanted Nectar Points voucher.

What about you?

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Clawdy · 23/01/2023 08:36

I love a nice bookmark, and like someone said earlier, it's fun choosing a different one for each new book.

eddiemairswife · 22/01/2023 19:18

My granddaughter bought me a Leeds University one which is currently in use, but I have a cross stitch one I made for my Grandma in Kindergarten in 1943.

Terpsichore · 22/01/2023 19:14

I’ll use anything but I usually have old train-tickets knocking around so they generally get pressed into service as bookmarks. I once bought a book from a charity shop that had a lovely, huge dried leaf - from some exotic tree, obviously from someone's holiday - as a bookmark.

Violinist64 · 22/01/2023 19:11

I bought loads of bookmarks when The Works had reduced them to 10p each. I have given some away with birthday cards but use them as and when I lose one. My daughter is another page rememberer. For those of you who use dog ears to mark your page - shame on you!

Snozzlemaid · 22/01/2023 19:03

I've got quite a collection from places visited but currently using a cute bookmark one of my DCs got me that says I'm the best Mummy ever.
They are now 25 and 21 so I've had it for quite some time.

PlaitBilledDuckyPuss · 22/01/2023 15:33

Possibly controversial but I don't use one - I just remember where I am in the book and turn the pages till I get there.

MissyB1 · 22/01/2023 15:21

DuncanBiscuits · 20/01/2023 20:29

I’m a corner-folder. There, I said it.

Reported!

DuncanBiscuits · 22/01/2023 13:52

JaneJeffer · 22/01/2023 13:27

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JaneJeffer · 22/01/2023 13:27

DuncanBiscuits · 20/01/2023 20:29

I’m a corner-folder. There, I said it.

I hate you

MissyB1 · 22/01/2023 13:25

I’m using a chalet school one, someone on the chalet school facebook group I’m in made them.

JaninaDuszejko · 22/01/2023 13:21

I keep the bookmarks you get free from different shops, currently using an English Heritage one. My children make me bookmarks as well.

Drywhitefruitycidergin · 21/01/2023 21:31

DuncanBiscuits · 20/01/2023 20:29

I’m a corner-folder. There, I said it.

Me too, apart from on my kindle.... It was a real challenge not to do it when I borrowed a book from a friend last week.

coffeeginandkindness · 21/01/2023 21:30

123ZYX · 31/12/2022 19:42

I'm definitely a "whatever is close and flat" bookmark user - receipts, train tickets, etc. I'm using business cards from my previous job for a few books at the moment.

Me too.
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Expired Waitrose vouchers

upinaballoon · 21/01/2023 21:29

If I receive a book for Christmas, and I did, I fold a not-too-large piece of pretty Christmas wrapping paper to make a bookmark.

I cross-stitched one or two but I find them too bulky.

A piece of ribbon makes a nice book mark - any old piece from the sewing drawer.

DuncanBiscuits · 20/01/2023 20:29

I’m a corner-folder. There, I said it.

mamaduckbone · 20/01/2023 20:21

I'm currently using a bit of cardboard ripped from a box of tablets.
I do have a couple of nice bookmarks but can seldom find them so it's usually a post-it, a hair bobble, a receipt - whatever is close to hand.

ThreeKneeRepeater · 01/01/2023 08:52

I collect bookmarks as holiday souvenirs. I’ve probably got around 50. Cheap and easy to carry and store. I love choosing a different one for the current read.
At the moment Im using a picture of the Santa Justa Elevator in Lisbon.

123ZYX · 31/12/2022 19:42

I'm definitely a "whatever is close and flat" bookmark user - receipts, train tickets, etc. I'm using business cards from my previous job for a few books at the moment.

InTheCludgie · 31/12/2022 16:07

A couple of books I'm reading have those novelty photo strips from a friend's wedding, the ones where people wear silly glasses/hold blow up guitars etc