Tell Me About Your Bookmarks

[mattiescottage.livejournal.com]

I thought it would be an interesting discussion if I posed the question to the community:

Tell me about your bookmarks.  Are they old friends (or reminders of old friends)?  Do you recycle scraps to make utilitarian place holders or new bits of glory?  What are your habits?  What are your favorites?

I read a lot of E-books.  However, a few weeks ago I began reading some particular print books.  When I needed to set them down, I realized that I had no bookmark at hand.  How very odd.

In fact, I realized that I hadn't used a regular bookmark in ages.  If I needed one, I had gotten into the habit of just grabbing whatever slip of scrap paper, envelope, or notecard was close at hand.

I did find some pretty bits to recycle into bookmarks--the ones in the photo above.  Perhaps you can recognize their origins?  

As a postscript, I will add a neat idea my mother shared with me at New Year's when she was changing over to her new calendars:  We have a hard time throwing out the pretty images from the old years' calendars.  Some of the old calendars have thumnail prints of the monthly photos printed as a gallery on the back.  She cuts these into strips and continues to enjoy the mini-photos as her bookmarks.  (Her calendar thumnails were smaller than the ones on my old calendars, so I think they worked out for her a little better.)

Comments

[kiwiria.livejournal.com]

I LOVE that idea!!

I tend to just use scraps of paper, but I actually did use to collect bookmarks when I was younger, and still have my favourites hidden away somewhere - I just keep forgetting to use them.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I have approximately eleventy-billion bookmarks. *facepalm* A few are really special - a papyrus one from Egypt, a leather one from England. Most of the rest are just oddments, like things cut from magazines, old coupons from 1957, or bookmarks my best-friend-when-we-were-six colored for me!

[kellchecker.livejournal.com]

I usually use a piece of paper from a steno pad at work (see a picture of the pads here (http://www.stenoworks.com/products/Reporter-Pads-Steno-Paper-%252d-by-the-pack.html)), since we have a lot of those lying around, hehe. But my "main" bookmark at the moment is a thin purple strip that is from my wedding invitations - a little piece cut off when they were being cut to size. :-)

[sonneta.livejournal.com]

I have some "proper" paper bookmarks that I've picked up at the library, or at conferences/workshops, etc. I use one of those if I can find one, but I often end up using a Post-it Note (folded over - don't want to get sticky stuff on the pages) or the receipt that I was given at the library, or whatever scrap of paper I have to hand.

As to favorites, I used to have a couple of Lord of the Rings (movie tie-in) bookmarks I'd picked up at the library... but I think those got lost in the shuffle or else so ragged I threw them away. :(

[mattiescottage.livejournal.com]

Just for the record, the bookmarks shown above were pretty graphics cut from panels of a facial tissue box and an herbal tea box.