Ha ha!!:D Wish I hadn't but we had to put it in lost property and someone came in to claim it. We were looking forward to spending it at the works christmas do that year as well!! Funny nobody claimed the bacon though!
I used to use bus or train tickets or any small piece of paper/card that came to hand, but like CLL Dodge I now generally use bookmarks from the Book Depository as I have heaps of them. Sadly they haven't been sending them out recently so my pile is dwindling a bit!
I got a new one from them last week. No.14/14 from a new set of designs.
I do a lot of paper crafts, so I always have lots of off-cuts of lovely patterned papers: an endless supply of pretty bookmarks.
I'm very fussy. The perfect bookmark has to be about 3.5cm longer than the book and about 3.5cm wide. That way it tucks neatly into the back pages and stays in place while I am reading, and doesn't fall out or get dislodged if the book is in my bag.
I absolutely love the £50/fried bacon/chips post, but am horrified at the same time! Fried foods are tasty of course, but they should not be in contact with books! It's all kinds of wrong.
I got a new one from them last week. No.14/14 from a new set of designs.
Typical, they start doing them at a point where I have no money for new books! Fingers crossed that a job offer comes in soon and then let the good times roll!
I have a few leather ones I bought from museums / tourist attractions as a child. It was probably the only thing I could afford in the gift shops other than pencils and rubbers. They smelt great when first bought.
I use perfume tester cards and as a side effect it makes the book smell nicer.
I hope you don't do this with library books. Lots of asthmatics react to perfume. I personally have an allergy to perfumes and couldn't read a book that had been contaminated with any kind of fragrance.
35mm film negatives
I used to do B/W landscape photography inc. all my own developing and printing - When you develop a roll of 35mm film you get a lead-in strip of about 4" to 6" with no images on it that would usually just be cut off and binned - I used to round off one end with scissors and keep them for bookmarks.
Still got maybe 40 of them left.
I use a bookmark my niece made me about 6 years ago. It's an extremly tatty bit of cardboard now but it's seen the insides of probably 200 odd books now and fallen in the bath a few times.
some hologram bookmarks bought in Gateshead Metro Centre (plug)
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receipts, business cards, photos, envelopes, dust-jackets
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OFTEN I FOLD THE CORNERS
I usually have about 6 books on the go, choice depending on mood - usually an autobiography, a short-story collection, something non-fiction etc
I use those card perfume hand outs or the ones in boots etc that you sample and spray yourself.
my books smell lovely
And a little Mum card that my boy bought me, but I keep that at home..
I've got a leather book mark that my son bought me from Hever Castle when he went on a school trip about 15 years ago. It's got Henry VIII and his wives on it but they aren't readable anymore. The bottom of it got a bit chewed as well by my siberian husky when he was a puppy.
I have a bit of a sentimental attachment to it
I have one of those furry dog bookmarks - so the dogs head and paws appear to be hanging over the top of the book. Silly but I like it!
Me too! I have two; a lion and an elephant I don't have anywhere near enough bookmarks though; I've been using Post-it notes with the sticky bit folded over for ages
for some odd reason i haet using propper bookmarks so i instead i just fold the corner of the page down and leave it at that but mostly i use just a small scrap of papper easier for me :=D
I don't use anything. I just always try to remember what page i'm on or preferably read to the end of the chapter and remember what chapter i'm on
I used to do this also, I would have a bookmark (piece of paper, or card, or something) sometimes. But I would always remember what chapter I was on, so if I didn't have anything handy I would remember where I was.
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Ha ha!!:D Wish I hadn't but we had to put it in lost property and someone came in to claim it. We were looking forward to spending it at the works christmas do that year as well!! Funny nobody claimed the bacon though!
My new bookmark. The 'Have a nice day!' is a nice touch too..aw.
I got a new one from them last week. No.14/14 from a new set of designs.
I'm very fussy. The perfect bookmark has to be about 3.5cm longer than the book and about 3.5cm wide. That way it tucks neatly into the back pages and stays in place while I am reading, and doesn't fall out or get dislodged if the book is in my bag.
I absolutely love the £50/fried bacon/chips post, but am horrified at the same time! Fried foods are tasty of course, but they should not be in contact with books! It's all kinds of wrong.
Typical, they start doing them at a point where I have no money for new books! Fingers crossed that a job offer comes in soon and then let the good times roll!
Then every so often I would look through all my books and find a bunch of strips that hadn't been completely used up.
I hope you don't do this with library books. Lots of asthmatics react to perfume. I personally have an allergy to perfumes and couldn't read a book that had been contaminated with any kind of fragrance.
I used to do B/W landscape photography inc. all my own developing and printing - When you develop a roll of 35mm film you get a lead-in strip of about 4" to 6" with no images on it that would usually just be cut off and binned - I used to round off one end with scissors and keep them for bookmarks.
Still got maybe 40 of them left.
plus
receipts, business cards, photos, envelopes, dust-jackets
plus
OFTEN I FOLD THE CORNERS
I usually have about 6 books on the go, choice depending on mood - usually an autobiography, a short-story collection, something non-fiction etc
my books smell lovely
And a little Mum card that my boy bought me, but I keep that at home..
I have a bit of a sentimental attachment to it
Me too! I have two; a lion and an elephant
I used to do this also, I would have a bookmark (piece of paper, or card, or something) sometimes. But I would always remember what chapter I was on, so if I didn't have anything handy I would remember where I was.
Barter Books in Alnwick is a booklovers paradise.
Ooooha Think I will go there for my hols
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