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

[LightShinesInTheDarkness]

save me from corner folder-overs....

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.

remember the page number.

Then read back a few pages as usually wine induced distortion

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

Bacon rind? Yeurgh!

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....

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.

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

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!

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.

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)

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.

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

ATM a carefree pantyliner .

unused I hope!

usually anythign that's hanging around or I remember roughly where I am. The best book marks I've had though are ones which are a bit of card folded over so it goes either side of the page with magnets at the bottom so it doesn't fall out ! I lose them though once I've finished the book!

Most of the time ,yes unused .

I normally remember roughly where I was. Although as I have a habit of leaving a few different books around the house to read, I sometimes forget.

I just remember the page. If it's been left unread for long enough that I forget the page then I would probably start from the beginning of the last chapter that I remember reading.

My Mum and Dad just gave me a Sony ebook thingy for my birthday, hopefully that will remember my pages for me. It will be a wonder on holidays as I usually pack DS's bodyweight in books to keep me going for two or three weeks, but this holds 160 books which even I would be hardpushed to get through on one holiday.

A bookmark with school photo of SILs foster children. Makes me smile every time I see it.

Anything that is to hand! Have a stash of 'proper' bookmarks, purchased/presents/purloined from bookshops/free in Amazon packages, but somehow never seem to be in the right place to get them when I need them. So usually, receipts, train tickets, strips torn out of the Red House Books catalogue, or just cross my fingers and hope I can find roughly the right page again when I pick it up again.

There is a BookKeeper service on Twitter that you can text your page number to (once you've told it what book you're reading) but having signed up for it I never really got into using it.

but WHAT is wrong with folding the corner over?

i dont understand.

Folding corners leaves you with grotty looking books leaving them splayed breaks the spines and allows pages to fall out. I use scraps of paper to mar pages as I can never find a proper bookmark thanks to the kids!

hmmm, i just like a book to look well read.

I use old birthday / chritmas cards, i hate the corners turned down.

christmas

I'm with pills on turned over pages.
Mine get moved from room to room...dumped on the side as i'm cooking...end up with splashes and all sorts.