Book Marks?

You don't use a bookmark?
Thats just lunacy!
You crazy, motha' fucka'!

I don't fold the edge of the pages down ever. Thats called "dogearing" in case you didn't know. As in a piles of beloved, dogeared books". I love the description but I hate when people do it especially to library books. I use an index card as a bookmark usually.

For books that I return to to reread parts or use as a reference I use photographs of people. That way when I return to a book to read a certain passage I'll see a beautiful black and white photograph of my mother as a young women or something like that.

I memorize the page number. That's how I know where most of the stuff in House of Leaves is.

I feel like such a dunce because I don't know the word for it. but you know when people develope film, they end up with this sheet of paper that has the nagatives printed on it in actual size? know what I'm talking about?
at any rate, I use a film negative sized peice of photo paper with a friend of mine in a bath tub on it. dead. looking dead anyway. malasas thrown ALL over the place(black and white picture)to make it look like a very passionate and angry suicide...or, I guess, like a brutal murder. I have the picture, wanna see it?

you memorize the page number? your an animal. and you must have a lot of faith in your memory. me, I don't have that much.

I use practically every method. I memorize page numbers sometimes, only once in a while though, and if it's easy to remember. I use receipts, actual bought bookmarks, any scrap of paper.

I never use photos though, I'd end up tearing them up.

I do bend pages if it's a book I own that I don't care about all that much, like one of the used ones I buy that are already beat up. Or a library book. =X sorry. Usually the page has already been folded anyway.

The only thing is if I have a bookmark with one of those annoying tassles on it...I have to take it off, not just because it's annoying, but because my cat will eat it.

Little off topic now, but not really. I'm about to change his name to Vacuum. He eats string. Little pieces of the wrapping off CD's that always end up on the floor. I found one of those twist ties from bread (yeah...the one with the METAL WIRE in it) in his litter box. And just an hour ago I found a ball of christmas ribbon mixed in with some puke on the carpet. I thought only dogs did this.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by 9.10.84 [/i]
[B]I feel like such a dunce because I don't know the word for it. but you know when people develope film, they end up with this sheet of paper that has the nagatives printed on it in actual size? know what I'm talking about?
at any rate, I use a film negative sized peice of photo paper with a friend of mine in a bath tub on it. dead. looking dead anyway. malasas thrown ALL over the place(black and white picture)to make it look like a very passionate and angry suicide...or, I guess, like a brutal murder. I have the picture, wanna see it?
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Wow, I have also used photo negatives as book marks. They are like the perfect size. Cool.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by 9.10.84 [/i]
[B]I feel like such a dunce because I don't know the word for it. but you know when people develope film, they end up with this sheet of paper that has the nagatives printed on it in actual size? know what I'm talking about?
at any rate, I use a film negative sized peice of photo paper with a friend of mine in a bath tub on it. dead. looking dead anyway. malasas thrown ALL over the place(black and white picture)to make it look like a very passionate and angry suicide...or, I guess, like a brutal murder. I have the picture, wanna see it?

you memorize the page number? your an animal. and you must have a lot of faith in your memory. me, I don't have that much. [/B][/QUOTE]

contact strip

i use whatevers laying around, piece of paper wise, sometimes those subscription cards that fall out of magazine. if I really like the book, it'll be full of markers so I can refer to favorite parts.

contact strip. wicked awesome, morey. thanks.

I have a clever book mark. My bookmark is clever.
On my book mark, the one that is so clever, it says "HOLD THAT THOUGHT" imprinted on the side.
And, because its so clever and metal, it can clip on the side of a page and even mark to the line that you're on.
Its clever.

I never saw a point in actually buying a bookmark...like those ones bookstores have at their counters as an "impulse item" people pick up before their transaction is complete.

I often use the receipt for the book I bought as my bookmark. When I'm done reading it, the receipt also acts as a memory marker as to when I read the book and where the hell I got it from. Just like the contact sheet strips, a receipt is a decent size for keeping your place in a book.

I never "dog ear" the pages. That falls along the lines of writing in the margins (see my post "writing in books with pens").

Some morbid fool back in high school used to mark his pages with a dab of blood from the tips of his fingers. Nasty....he had a bad cuticle picking habit and his fingers were always a bloody mess. I felt sorry for those upcoming students who got his books the following year!

I got a giftcard for a present one time and they gave me one of those little metal clippy bookmarks to go with it. I dropped the book on the floor, bookmark side down and broke it.

The last time I ever bought one myself was when I was little and liked the cute animal pictures or Garfield cartoons.

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I use some blank postcards Chuck sent me.

I've got this Van Gogh book mark. Man I love his work.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Wesley Sonck [/i]
[B]a condom [/B][/QUOTE]

Used? or un-Used?

Sometimes I just memorize page numbers, but I ussually use these little copper book marks that come in tins of fifty.

They slide right over the pages and you can mark the exact line you stopped on which works well for me because I quite often find myself reading in little bursts. They're also good for using to mark passages in books I particularily like, or important lines when I'm reading for school.

I have a couple bookmarks with generic fantasy art on them.

I make a point to finish the last complete paragraph on a page before I can put it down. That way, I know exactly where I left off.

sometimes i use bookmarks (scrap paper, ribbon, actual bookmarks, other books, cds, whatever's lying around) sometimes i don't, and end up paging through the book, reading random passages until i find one that looks familiar.

on the dogearing issue, instead of writing notes in my books (see a full explaination of my paranoia in the "writing in books" thread) i usually fold the top of the page to point to the sentence i want to remember.

I just discovered that all my bookmarks are bus recipts.

The reciept.

I usually use a folded piece of paper, but lately I just remember the page number.

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