I prefer "found object" bookmarks over the intentionally designed kind, like if I get a book at a brick-and-mortar store, I usually end up using the receipt as my bookmark. Here are a couple of my favorite bookmarks right now.
My extremely cool in-laws slipped this little note into the birthday card they gave me:
Like most rectangular slips of paper I've requisitioned for these purposes, I fold it in half down the longer axis when in use.
Here's the bookmark I've been using lately for larger books:
That looks like several playing cards, but it's actually a packaging element for a fancy-pants electro-gizmodic edition of Uno. I don't think it's any better than the regular version of the game, but the string of fake cards on the box is kinda cool.
BRP Basic Roleplaying Allegiance System for the Gods of The Kingdoms of
Kalamar
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Hello again folks,
Here is what I came up with for a Basic Roleplaying style Allegiance system
for the gods in the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting. I have...
The in-laws message is great. :)
ReplyDeleteI found that cutting the clear strip of plastic that comes in a new dress shirt's collar gives me a perfectly durable, clear, 4cm wide bookmark.
ReplyDeleteHaha, I think I'm getting more obsessive as I age, but I love having these uniformly clear bookmarks poking out of the multiple books I'm reading.
I have to say that I like these bookmarks of yours much more than the bookmark character sheets that are all the rave these past few days. Much more functional too. ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt's all about the strange business cards and promotional fliers you find in your windshield wipers.
ReplyDeleteAs an avid diner at Chinese restaurants, I submit that chopstick wrappers make the very best bookmarks. Although I used to repurpose my Farside daily desk calendar pages as bookmarks.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes use found items (mostly receipts) as bookmarks, but mostly I use actual bookmarks.
ReplyDeleteThe book mark that marks my place in the current novel being read is one of those cardboard that's almost fabric ones with a tassel. It's got Garfield (the cat) on it. The bookmark and tassel are rather raggedy and beat up. This book mark dates at least back to the early 80s, I don't remember if I had it before going to college or if I got it while in college.
I also have a stash of paper bookmarks acquired from various places. I have a big stash from my college student union. Then there is a stash advertising an SF convention that collected pre-registrations then never actually happened (and no refunds of course). Then various bookstore bookmarks and other random bookmarks round out the collection.
If a novel gets sidelined for another more interesting one, the Garfield bookmark will move to the new book, and one of these random paper ones, or sometimes a found object one, will go into the book.
Oh, and magazines often acquire a piece of (clean) toilet paper as a bookmark...
Frank