Question to the physical book readers here, what do you use as bookmark?
I currently got a paper bookmark but don’t like it to be honest.
A sticker of cute dogs in space suits and the caption “we want fully automated intergalactic luxury gay space communism” because it reminds me of Ian M. Banks - also gets a laugh out of people 😁
I use whatever is around… a receipt, a square of TP, a cat’s whisker once. I have a bunch of bookmarks but they’re never around when I need them (and I always forget to grab one when I grab a book off the bookshelf).
I use the receipt I get from the library when I check the book out. No danger of forgetting due date.
I don’t like honest bookmarks as well. A proper bookmark should be mean-spirited and lie to me, so that I’ll never find my place again!
I fold any piece of paper into one of those dog-ear corner bookmarks. I’ve got dozens around, made of everything from sticky notes to receipts to a parking ticket. They way I do it has a line going down the middle on one side that I use to show me which side of the page I’m on.
Another book
@ModernRisk a drawing my daughter made on a ripped piece of construction paper. It was her idea to use it as a bookmark.
I have a probably too large and pedantic collection of cardboard bookmarks, some bought in remote cities, some given to me as gifts, some that went included inside other books. I even have a real chinese Yuan/Rembimbi bill that I got from a friend, long dead.
Sometimes I even use napkins and buy receipts and pieces of torn newspaper.
My wife bought a few sets of bookmarks off aliexpress. They look really good. Here’s an example:
Here’s the link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004921501847.html, but you can find tons of styles and models.
I don’t. I just look at the page I’m on when I’m done reading and then open it to that page when I come back.
Yup, the book tends to remember about where it was last opened anyways. Sometimes I memorize the page number to be sure.
Came here to say this, thinking I’d be the only one. If I can’t remember the exact page I enjoy thumbing through and skimming sections til I get to where I left off. Most of the time though I just open up to where I left off and continue
I have a bunch of magnetic bookmarks, I’m usung mainly them because thise don’t fall out accidentally
This is what I use. My cat decided that every other type of bookmark was a toy–I would pick up my book each evening and had to find my place all over again. The magnetic bookmarks were the only ones she didn’t pull out of my books
Small sticky notes. That allows me to bookmark at a specific sentence rather than just the page.
Many years ago, I fell from the stairs due to a diabetic episode. I was kept in a coma for a few days. When I woke up I had this id bracelet on my arm. I still use it as a bookmark till this day.
I keep bookmarks whenever I get them, also picture postcards etc. I have some that I’ve bought, others I’ve made (e.g. knitted or embroidered). Mainly I use strips of thin white card that I razor off an A4 sheet.
Generally. Whatever piece of paper I have handy, even if that’s a piece of toilet paper.
However, if it’s what I call a “loaner” copy, I dogear. There’s some books that I (for whatever reason) end up loaning out more than most, so I keep a few cheap paperback copies around. Those are what I reach for, for bathroom reading as well. Since I know they’ll get loaned out and never returned, I just don’t care about losing corners here and there. But I don’t dogear big folds, just enough to mark the page. So if the section gets torn off, the text is still there.
I’ve had dozens of dedicated bookmarks over the years, and they disappear like bic pens and socks. So I gave up on them and just use whatever thin paper is handy.
