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.
Primarily, library receipts!
I fold the corner of the page that I stopped on.
YOU MONSTER!!!
How do you find the courage to do that? For me that would feel like a crime punishable by death.
I hate seeing people abuse their books in horrendous ways, but maybe I’m just overly OCD.I see it as a sign of a well loved book. Having said that, I wouldn’t do it to a library book or someone else’s book.
Id never do it on a borrowed/library book, but for personal books why not? You arent exactly doing significant damage to it and it’s rather unlikely that any given random book is going to significantly hold it’s value or be worthwhile on a historical timeframe or anything like that. Books are made to be read, and I kind of like how well loved books get dog eared and spine-creased over time.
I got a couple fancy plastic bookmarks with some books I pre-ordered, and I use those mostly now. Otherwise I just use the receipt from buying the book
Combination of free bookmarks I’ve gotten from book orders and old Pokémon cards
Another book
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.
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.
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 😁
Kleenex, usually since I can never find my real bookmark. I seem to have left it in a book somewhere in my bookshelf…
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.
Whatever I happen to have around me when I stop reading. Generally some form of paper, but I’m flexible.
Mostly receipts. I like their flexibility.
Same. Most of my bookmarks are the receipt for the book it’s marking.
I’m using an old plane ticket to Milan
Nice. I had Bernese Oberland train ticket I used for a while.
Some cardboard advertisement card I got with a shirt I ordered online.
