Oh, this one is easy: All of the above and then some. I’ve been known to dog ear pages when it’s a book I don’t care so much about or when I need to mark a particular poignant passage and don’t have any page markers. I’ve got a huge collection of bookmarks, recently added to by my kid, who likes colouring those old Book Depository bookmarks they sent out a few years ago that were white with line drawings on them designed to be coloured. I’ve now got a whole collection of them and they’re beautiful.
But I don’t limit myself to that. I’ve been known to use all kinds of things as a bookmark. Receipts, plane tickets, granola bar wrappers – even a cat’s tail once when my phone rang and the cat didn’t want to move from my lap so I could get up and find one. It didn’t last long, but it worked. So basically, I’m not all that picky.
What about you guys? Do you always use a bookmark? Or do you occasionally commit the cardinal sin and dog ear? Or do you sidestep the whole issue by using an e-reader or listening to audiobooks?
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I have used whatever is near me as a bookmark, often library receipts but once a roll of toilet paper I had handy for emergency kleenex. Anything goes
That is one I haven’t used – though I have used a square of toilet paper or an unused kleenex once or twice when that’s all I had in similar circumstances! Yeah, I’m not picky or precious about it – whatever helps me find my place works for me!
A cat’s tail? That’s pretty ballsy…to avoid dog-earring the page, I’ll go as far as to write the page stopped on my hand (because I JUST cannot remember it). #teambookmark
Hahaha! Yeah, I mean I wouldn’t say it’s a GREAT bookmark option…. I used to just memorize the page I was on, but now I’m old and I forget everything (including main characters in books when I’m more than halfway through quite regularly), so no chance I’ll remember them now! I prefer bookmarking, but will occasionally dog-ear – but only in a book that isn’t special and only if I really can’t find anything else to use. So it’s pretty rare these days!
I have piles and piles of bookmarks collected from all over the place – as well as random postcards etc that regularly get used. But if I don’t have one to hand, I’ll use receipts, bus tickets, envelopes, pretty much anything I can tuck in. Never dog-ear!
I have so many random bookmarks as well! I’ve always picked them up when I’ve travelled, so I have bookmarks from bookshops in nearly every city I’ve visited. I also have postcards – and even those cards they used to give out at Starbucks to celebrate their new blends from various parts of the world (those were my favourites as they were a good size and had lots of bright colours and interesting patterns!). I will admit to dog-earing, though only in books I don’t care that much about and plan to give away – never in a special or signed edition or one of my old books that are really old and delicate! And I do try to avoid it, so it’s rare that I resort to that these days!
What a fun thing for your kid to do!
And I laughed at your story about using a cat’s tail as a bookmark. What a cooperative kitty. 😀
Yes, and bonus, BOOKMARKS FOR ME!!! Yay! Haha, yeah, though it only lasted for about 5 minutes! As soon as I stopped scratching behind his ears he scarpered!