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...what do you you use as a bookmark...?

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 16/02/2009 21:53

save me from corner folder-overs....

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ComeWhineWithMe · 17/02/2009 19:01

ATM a carefree pantyliner .

moonshine · 17/02/2009 18:58

I have converted to a proper 'grown-up' plastic bookmark from Waterstones which happily tolerates being dropped in the bath (unlike the books )

janeite · 17/02/2009 14:44

I have got a Harry Potter bookmark and a Jane Austen bookmark but both are currently in hiding somewhere. So at the moment I am using a long piece of pink and black spotty ribbon.

troutpout · 17/02/2009 11:23

i've got one of those page keeper thingys.
That is quite good
Other than that...i'm a page-turner-over...or it's leaflets/tickets/shopping lists...whatever comes to hand (slipper the other day)

BeckyBendyLegs · 17/02/2009 09:30

My brother-in-law said he once found some bacon rind in a library book, perhaps it was your library girlandboy! He hasn't got a library book out since!

I usually use one of those free cardboard bookmarks they have on the counter in Waterstones but I have used: a CD, empty contraceptive pill packet, birthday card, a peg and once a mega block but that was a bit bulky.

wabbit · 16/02/2009 23:47

business cards - not my own... other peoples, then i lose them all over the house! there's one surfing about in the bathroom at the moment - i know it'll end up in the bin in there. Can't remember if it's important though!

Poledra · 16/02/2009 23:38

Oh yes, often have Flamesparrow moments with airline tickets in books (travel a lot for work).

stealthsquiggle · 16/02/2009 23:36

train tickets
stubs of airline tickets (when I used to fly)

(can you tell I generally only get to read on trains/planes?)

other than that
any bit of paper / card which comes to hand - often the top out of a tissue box.

RustyBear · 16/02/2009 23:35

I used to be a librarian. I have never personally experienced the classic rasher of bacon, but we did have a condom foil once...

We often had pound or five pound notes, which we generally managed to get back to their owners, though it was more difficult back in the days before computer issuing.

Other memorable ones were a ticket to a very expensive concert, which needed a bit of detective work, and a very explicit love letter from one of our readers to another - (both were married, though not to each other)
I didn't have the nerve to give that one back!

I do hope you page corner mutilators aren't also the type who put marks in books you've read - I always thought that was pretty pointless anyway - if you can't remember if you've read a book, why not read it again....

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 16/02/2009 23:31

girlandboy - now THAT explains why you use a beautiful blue bead thingy.

Bacon rind? Yeurgh!

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tigerdriver · 16/02/2009 23:30

remember the page number.

Then read back a few pages as usually wine induced distortion

fruitycake · 16/02/2009 23:27

I use a train ticket from the day my dp proposed. Very romantic He obviously hasn't annoyed me enough for me to rip it up and throw it in the bin yet.

Poledra · 16/02/2009 23:24

, girlandboy

girlandboy · 16/02/2009 23:23

I work in a library and have found some truly hideous things in returned library books.

The worst being......bacon rind and......thick yellow toe nails!

feedthegoat · 16/02/2009 23:22

I use half a photo with ds on. Other half did have me on but he used that for making a family tree picture and it is such a sweet photo of him I couldn't bear to throw it away!

nkf · 16/02/2009 23:21

Nothing. I always seem to remember where I am. I do like books with those tassels though. I expect they have a name.

Flamesparrow · 16/02/2009 23:17

I don't like those ones, they always seem to damage the pages too much for my liking.

My ideal bookmark is a receipt as it makes it interesting next time you read the book (leave it in there)

I found a mothercare one from 2003 in Jane Eyre

kslatts · 16/02/2009 23:16

I use a post-it note.

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 16/02/2009 23:16

girlandboy - really pretty. Nope, not sad. Organised.

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girlandboy · 16/02/2009 23:12

One like this

Am I really sad to use a proper bookmark?

boogiewoogie · 16/02/2009 23:08

Tag from new lingerie

DontCallMeBaby · 16/02/2009 23:07

Freeby bookmarks. Bits of coloured paper with holes the shape of Hello Kitty in them (courtesy of DD). Leaflets. I used to be able to remember the page I was on in about three books concurrently, without fail, now I can't remember one.

Flamesparrow · 16/02/2009 22:48

Either remember the page number roughly (can flick back and forth to get exact place, unless I am pregnant then I have no memory ), or any random bit of paper.

I have bookmarks somewheer

ThePregnantHedgeWitch · 16/02/2009 22:25

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 16/02/2009 22:24

thumbw/twims - can't do that, can never remember the number and invariably end up reading over the same bit twice!

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