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What do you use as a bookmark?

Hey, Corso, seriously...how do you really feel about that book spine thing? Don't hold back now... :D

(I feel the same way about the people who send out Readers Digest condensed books.)
 
Lol Prolixic.
Yeah I love the Readers Digest books, you can picture them sat around the conference table.
-Hey this books great, absolutely brilliant.
-Yeah, well can we publish it.
-Er... No. Another publisher got there first.
-Damn, any ideas?
-I know what we can do, chop all the parts with depth out and market it in a pompous fake leathe cover!
-Wow! I was just thinking that! That is just the thing to advertise the authors breadth of perception and skill!
-And we can kill all the sexy parts!
-Gosh, thats great, we can avoid upsetting the homosexuals with scenes of heterosexual consenual sex in a bed. Of course if it's a gay book we'll keep the part with the chocolate boxes and public toilets.
-Yeah Man
-Yeah!
 
My library consists almost entirely of paperback books (trade and pocket size) and I never crack spines or that sort of thing. My mom gave me a leather bookmark a couple of years ago that I use in my primary book (my bedtime book is usually marked with any old scrap of paper).
I think it's funny, though, to see people who have been shaped in this issue by either borrowing or lending books. I absolutely refuse to either borrow or lend books. If a friend of mine is that anxious to read something, I'll go buy them copies.
 
I know what we can do, chop all the parts with depth out and market it in a pompous fake leathe cover!
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Thats an absolutely perfect description, Corso. Of course with the fake leather they can charge more too.

And funes I'm with you on the lending thing. Give? Sure, but if I lend and it comes back damaged...I don't want to risk their neck. (Same policy for money and books.):)
 
I'm too nervous to borrow hardbacks. I borrowed a signed copy of an Anne Rice book once and a drop of water somehow ended up on the signed title page. I was horrified! Never again.

I had been so careful. I went so far as to lay the book open on a towel rather than risk the bare table. I guess you can never be too careful with anything borrowed. Something is bound to happen. At least with me, that is. Bad luck or karma.
 
My daughter made me a bookmark about 3 years go. It's red with stickers on it and then it's laminated. I've used it ever since.
It's sad to see corners that have been folded down or a book that has been written on. They just seem so fragile to me, to write in it seems wrong.
 
I never dogear. I'm almost embarrassed to admit this, but I keep a variety of bookmarks on my desk and often choose one that "fits" the book I'm reading. Some bookmarks are storebought, usually from friends. But I also might use a length of ribbon or a laminated ticket stub from a favorite concert or event. I've used small note cards from friends and if I'm in a busy time period (which is the norm), I'll use a to-do list. You think that would remind me to read a little less and take care of errands and chores, but it doesn't. If I start a book away from home, my bookmark is usually a coupon or a parking receipt.
 
I'm presently using a nice bookmark my son picked out for me for Christmas. It has a tassle with a zen symbol on the end. I'm not used to having such a nice bookmark, so I've kept it inside the plastic slipcover it came in. I figure I can use it longer like that. Otherwise, I'd be back to whatever I can find on my coffee table within a month.
 
I agree with the dogear thing. Its horrific. However, marking manuscripts with personal notes has a long history--perhaps ever since books were invented.
 
I will never fold a page, but, from what I see, I have the most original system of all. Clothespins. Any plastic spring one will do, but I mostly use a set of small Japanese clothespins, in pastel colors with flat edges. Not only they mark my pages but they also keep them flat while I am reading. Try it once and you will see.
 
i use a translucent, orangey coloured one that came from amazon.
whenever i put it down on a table or desk it sort of disappears like a chameleon:confused:
 
I'm afraid I'm another one who believes damage to books to be sacrilege. Bent corners and broken spines are deeply frowned upon by me. Sadly my other half is not so caring and anything she reads rapidly disintegrates into dog ears and cracked spines. Thankfully we like totally different stuff and also she is not a particularly big reader.

I don't know many other people who read as voraciously as I so lending books is almost unheard of.

As for a book mark, I use a red leather one that I bought from the British Library some years back.
 
My bookmark is my memory. I always remember the page number I finished on and the automatically go back to it.

I seem to be able to retain numbers in my head really well. I remember phone numbers we had when I was 9 years old, and international number for my mam to ring the UK. Funny, but I was never good at maths though............:D :)



Cheers, Vicky
 
Originally posted by Vicky
My bookmark is my memory. I always remember the page number I finished on and the automatically go back to it.
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I used to do that as well, but then, for some reason, I started using paper bookmarks... My mind's gone terribly lazy since then. I should try to remember the page more often, it would be a good exercise.
 
I always fold the corners, so I suppose I`m in the minority. Re-reading dog eared books in no way diminishes the content.:D Anyway, I think that some authors feel somewhat flattered to see one of their books so well worn!
 
I use whatever seems relevent at the time. Sometimes it's a receipt from a supermarket, or sometimes it's a boarding pass for a flight. Whatever it is I use though, it stays in the book forever after I've read it.
 
Why "As for folding the corner of the page - NO, NO, NO"???? :confused:

Remember always telling everyone possible I would never do that, that books were to be respected and revered ... until I realised that my favourite of the time (The Name of the Rose, U. Eco, 5 reads) had a good 15 pages with corners folded, and was twice thicker than the brand new ones in shops for having been too mistreated... Since then not that I mistreat books more - have this terribly purse-emptying and shelf-filling vice of spending on second-hand books, old books (nothing more beautiful to touch than a 18th century book) and novels of any kind...

Morry :)
 
I have bookmarks I got as gifts... but they tend to get misplaced so I stick anything in there that won't harm the book, lol, like an envelope out of the trash or sometihing. :)
 
Originally posted by froggerz40
I always fold the corners, so I suppose I`m in the minority. Re-reading dog eared books in no way diminishes the content.:D Anyway, I think that some authors feel somewhat flattered to see one of their books so well worn!
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JK Rowling tells a cute story of a mother and son at one of her book signings. The mother told JK that her son was too embarassed to show JK his book, because the spine was broken, the pages were dogeared, and there was a spot of jam on it. But JK encouraged him to show it to her and she happily signed it, explaining that was how she wanted to see her books: well used means well loved.
 
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