OK…in a few years this topic will be as outdated as the LP is today or rotary telephones yesterday. But, for those of us who have yet to adopt digital reading via e-readers, how do you mark a page when you are done reading for the day, the moment, the night?
Lets talk about it, do you bookmark, dog ear, remember the page or improvise when it comes to saving a page in a book you are reading?
We are not fans of dog earring a book. To us books are perfectly crafted pieces of technology. Sturdy, reliable, no batteries required. However, their inherent weakness is in their composition. The lovely, often luminescent paper can be fragile and a splash of coffee can render a cherished book ruined. And to dog ear a page seems just criminal!
However, are you a forward ‘dog earer’ or a reverse dog earer? Is this a simple method, best because there is no bookmark to lose?
Or perhaps, if you are like one of the Boston Book Bums, you manage to find whatever scrap of paper, as small as a postage stamp, lying around and wedge it into the binding?
Perhaps you peel off a Post-It Note and slap it on the page?
Now the classy way of marking the last page read, the bookmark itself. Oh yes, we all remember those grade school art projects of white glue, the strip of craft paper and looped piece of yarn. Of course the paper hole punch was supervised by the teacher, just in case some wise-acher kid doesn’t try to ear piece the pig tailed girl in the desk ahead.
However, bookmarks are those loose check out items at book stores, sometimes gifts by non-book consumer for bibliophiles. But when was the last time you bought a bookmark? And what was it? Something campy? Something inspirational? A miniature of your favorite work of art? Or maybe a simple slender ribbon?
Now-a-days you can improvise your own or even craft something creative, like a knitted bookmark. However, we appreciate odd or inventive bookmarks like these oozing page markers (above right) or even three dimensional piece (left.)
So let us hear it, how do you mark your pages?
I hate dogeared books! *using best Mommy Dearest voice* “No more dog-eared books!” LOL
I was even compelled to write a blog post on this a long time ago, after getting a library book that had EVERY single page dogeared. LOL It was a new book so it wasn’t possible that several folks had had a chance to turn down the pages already.
I typically use “found items” for my bookmarks, which can be dangerous when I can’t find those items again. LOL
Well, we learn every day that people love books, they just treat them a bit differently. Well worn or pristine, its all good, you just won’t catch us dog earing regularly. *Shivers*
I dog-ear but I try to use bookmarks when I can find one. But I dog-ear all the time, I admit it. I use my books as coasters, too. Bad Marie!
Always with a bookmark! Although, occasionally, I’ll just flip the book over, even though I know it’s terrible for the binding. I have a pretty big collection of bookmarks, so it’s easy for me to just grab one of those on most occasions. The last bookmark I bought was actually a nice metal one from Barnes & Noble with an Eastern Bluebird on it and a pretty blue tassle.
I admit, I used to dog-ear, back when I was a fan of ‘claiming’ my books quite clearly by writing my name in them and using them as I would. Nowadays I definitely use bookmarks instead! My sister bought me a cute one for Christmas, and I have a beautiful gold-plated one with a jewelled heart dangling from it that I got one birthday. We run a bookshop now so we have a whole rack of fun plastic ones with tassles to choose from too – map designs and kittens and Beatrix Potter, butterflies and gerbera daisies (my favourites!) and bookish quotes. There’s no excuse, really!