Do you have a bookmark preference?

Question

Having encountered many readers, I find one thing to be the most intriguing -- what they use as a bookmark.

I'm quite fond of using postcards for a bookmark, thanks to a past professor of mine, and I'm wondering if anyone has a specific item they enjoy using. Would you rather use something a bit more personal and creative, or do you adore the shiny, new marks you find while waiting in line to purchase a book? What do you think a person's bookmark says about them?

Answer 1

A local book store has bookmarks that I like using. These bookmarks are foreign postage stamps laminated, and they are quite pretty. I have a handful of those, the most recent being postage stamps from Mongolia, featuring children playing with butterflies and such.



Besides those bookmarks, I like using personal items, such as pictures or birthday cards. I'll also use whatever I have lying around; for example, a business card I snagged from my father is keeping my place in the book I'm reading now.

Answer 2

I prefer actual bookmarks. I have a favorite one that I got as a gift a few years ago - it is a bookmark with a dog saying, "Keep your paws off my book!" It has a tassel that hangs out of the book, and attached to the tassel is a bead with a paw print on it. I've always loved that bookmark. I use it for nearly every book I read.



My sister uses torn off pieces of Kleenex and toilet paper for bookmarks. I find that a little odd, but I guess it does the job.



I don't really know how to determine what a person's bookmark says about him or her, though. I guess those who use more traditional bookmarks are maybe perhaps more sentimental or simply just a little more traditional, perhaps. And maybe those who use such things as Kleenexes and toilet paper are more on-the-go and maybe a little less sentimental when it comes to reading a book (or at least when it comes to place-holding in a book).



Best wishes!

Answer 3

My bookmarks tell sad tales. All of them, after some time, are twisted and bent. Thats what becomes of most of them. The new glossy bookmarks are sometimes just too good to be used. So I dont use them at all. I preserve them as a token in a diary to be used only for special occasions.



I have one bookmark that one of my teachers gifted me. It says "Nothing Stops a Man Who Works Hard to Achieve", on abackdrop of a skier on a slope. Of course, it was too special to be used, so I preserved it. Sadly, the dear teacher passed away this summer, but her bookmark is a fond memory of her and the day she gifted.



Usually I use bills of the bookstores as bookmarks or more often I go without one. If a newspaper is lying around I tear a corner and fold it into a rectangle to use a bookmark. Or any bit of paper around serves me just as fine.



What my bookmark usually tells about me is, "Hey, you see, he was lying around me so now I am in his book, reminding him where he dozed off while reading."



TW K

Answer 4

I don't think i've had an actual bookmark since i was a child! The last one i recall having was yellow with a picture of a kitten sitting in a what looked like a wine glass.

Now i usually use ribbon (i also sew, so there are always bits of ribbon around). But not just plain solid colored ribbon, i like it to have a pattern. The one i'm using now has little strawberries on a green background :)

Answer 5

Although I have many bookmarks, I usually can't find one when I need one, or they're all in use! So quite often I use the receipt from purchasing the book. Or I'll use the part of the cover that folds over the edge.

Answer 6

I usually use a personal bookmark that my friends have gotten for me, as I am a avid reader. I at times will make special personal bookmarks for my close and dear friends and put them in a get well card if the occasion arises. Makes me feel close to them as I read.

Answer 7

I use grocery receipts and post-its. I would use something more personal and creative but I can always find a receipt more easily. I think that a person's choice of book mark does say something about them, but also shows how they think of books. A special mark would indicate that the book is special. A less general mark may just show that books are a part of life, just like groceries. ;)

Answer 8

i always dogear my pages- just a tiny one at the tip of the corner.

it's a referance to this play i was in- when i was 15, but even before that, i always dog-eared the pages, unless i was borrowing the book from a friend, in which case i'd use whatever i could find- paper, ribbon, or just leave the book open under my pillow. i mostly don't need bookmarks- i read rather quickly

Answer 9

3x5 index cards. I've been moving and found a lit of them left in books. They all have something written on them. Some have notes from me for me. Most have random stuff that a friend of mine writes on them. He takes my book when he finds it lying around and writes things like "NO! this is the wrong page! you want the one three pages back!"

Answer 10

I don't ride the bus that much, but when I do, I like to keep my ticket for a book-mark. Otherwise I just use library receipts.

Answer 11

my kids like to make me bookmarks using colored cardstock and they

will sometimes put on a picture of themselves. they are cute.

I've used a playing card in the past.

Answer 12

anything handy really. a book mark, post it, not card, torn sheet of paper.

Answer 13

I use a piece of string sometimes with beads on it

Answer 14

when i was in high school i would make my own by cutting out women from playboy and laminate them