Comments on: On Bookmarks

By: Ryan Harvey

Ryan Harvey — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:40:25 +0000

The only collection of bookmarks I ever developed were those ones Dave mentioned with LOTR characters and icons (usually a ring replica) dangling from string. I think I got one of each character, plus a number of smallers ones (better for paperbacks) and this great tectures one that just says “Mordor” on it with a metallic logo in the middle. Great for reading dark fantasy. Otherwise, I have an accumulation of advertister ones, cheap things that I’m always grabbing to stick somewhere in a manuscript. I also have a few with wolves, and this funky lenticular lens one that I think is sitting in a book lost on my shelves somewhere. Often I use my business card.

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By: bsolah

bsolah — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 09:51:17 +0000

I have mix of different bookmarks, but lately I’ve been using train tickets (something I obsessively collect) but I’d like to make book marks, that would be uber cool.

By: Bill Ward

Bill Ward — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:38:47 +0000

James, I’m shocked at such behavior!

Jeff, that’s pretty cool — I may have to try that.

Dave — nice quote, and I think we must all have a few of those dangly yarn ones somewhere, don’t we?

By: NewGuyDave

NewGuyDave — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:45:52 +0000

Through the years my tastes have changed from plain ones from the bookstore, to ones with dangly colored yarn and pictures of LOTR characters. I also had a stint on metal ones with famous quotes engraved on them and ones with Japanese coins dangling on them.

My favorite bookmark says, “It’s never to late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

By: Jeff Stehman

Jeff Stehman — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:38:56 +0000

I gave up on bookmarks as a teen. I don’t remember what led to it, but it was a conscious decision to work by memory, figuring I ought to be able to remember a handful of page numbers at any given time.

I’m inordinately proud of going by memory. Huzzah! I’ve successfully enhanced my brain! It’s like speed reading, a feat you can train yourself to do that’s both useful and dazzling to others. Plus it’s a smidgen easier to learn than speed reading. (Well, maybe two smidgens.)

The only downside is what to do with all the bookmarks you receive as gifts from children.

By: James Enge

James Enge — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:22:46 +0000

I often just dog-ear pages (which will sound like blasphemy to some). But that doesn’t always work, especially with old acid-damaged paper. Lots of times I use old movie or theater tickets, which have that nostalgic quality you talk about. But I have used bus transfers, letters (back when they were written on paper), bank receipts, report cards etc.

Every now and then, reading an old book, I’ll come across one of these things and have a sudden attack of adab, the demanding memory.

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