Booking Through Thursday
Booking Through Thursday asks – What items have you ever used as a bookmark? What is the most unusual item you’ve ever used or seen used?
I have one favorite bookmark that I use pretty much all the time. If I’m reading more than one book, the slip of paper from the library and, on a plane, my boarding pass. I’ve also used the receipt from the bookstore on occasion. I have a stack of bookmarks sitting on the bookshelf that I somehow accumulated over the years so I have plenty to go around if needed.
I don’t dogear. Never have, never will. I would never ever consider putting a book down open to hold my place. That’s just mean! I usually remove slip covers if I can but I’ve once or twice used it as a bookmark when nothing else was handy.
Honestly, I can’t say what I’ve seen other people use as bookmarks. My face is usually buried in a book and I don’t come up for air long enough to notice what others do sometimes.
What about you?
I agree–I would never, ever dogear a book.
But I have been known to use whatever is lying around–stray receipts, post-it notes, advertisements I’ve received in the mail… whatever is handy and won’t harm my book.
I’ve recently become alot better at not dog-earing pages.
I also never dog-ear or put a book face down, but I do admit to using the dust jacket as a bookmark when I have no other option (and, okay, even sometimes when I do have other options).
You make me feel guilty for dog-earring. Ha. Here’s my mark!
Ohhhhh dog earing is a pet peeve, I can’t handle it.
Here is mine.
http://teawithmarce.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-bookmark-are-you-using.html
Agree!!! If a friend of mine borrow my book i always remind them not to do so too or I would be pissed off and never lend them again
I will now not only check out what others are reading, but what they are using as a bookmark.
I have a favorite bookmark I’ve used for years – a Harry Potter bookmark that’s been so loved that it’s cracked and needed to be taped several times. I can’t part with it. One day it’s just going to disintegrate…