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thread: Book Marks!

  1. #1
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    Feb 2004
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    Book Marks!

    Do you use one or do you turn the corner of the page down?

    I have stacks of them as I haaaate having my pages dog eared, drives me nuts. BUT I got a new very very cool book mark for my birthday on Wednesday so the rest are going to be left on one of the bookcase shelves!

    Here it is, it's a Swarovski crystal on the top & soooo cool

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    Jul 2007
    melb
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    Very Nice sarah!!!!

    I hate dog ears also but dont tend to use bookmarks as such any piece of paper etc liying around recipts are a common thing!

    I loose book marks but have just got one that goes on side of page with a magnet either side so hope not to loose that!!

  3. #3
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    Feb 2004
    Melbourne
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    Aaron does the same, receipts or usually scratchies LOL!

  4. #4
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    Aug 2006
    On the other side of this screen!!!
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    Very nice!

    Most of my bookmarks are postcards from the free postcard stands LOL! Like yours better though

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    Dec 2006
    Out of my mind. Back in five minutes...
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    Sarah, that is beautiful.
    I am like Marydean. Free postcards, or my library has free bookmarks when you check out books.
    And my DH just folds pages. I hate it too...

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    cowtown
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    i use bookmarks, usually whatever I have at hand though. to and from work its normally a train ticket.

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    Dec 2006
    In my own private paradise
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    i can't stand pages being turned down, so always use a bookmark of sorts - usually, it's a narrow post it when i'm at work - then i can mark where i'm at on the page as well - i'm a shocker for reading the same thing a dozen times between calls at work!

    gorgeous book mark sarah - i'd be scared i was going to lose it though (most of my reading is done at work!)

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    ooh, very nice Sarah.

    Nic

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    Oct 2006
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    Ooer that's a gorgeous bookmark Sarah

    I'm the same, can't stand corners turned down or when people bend the spine of the book all the way around!

    My current bookmark is a standard one I got from Singapore with my Chinese horoscope on it and a red tassle.

  10. #10
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    Jul 2006
    In The Land Of Wonderful...
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    I'm a book mark girl

    My mum bought me a beautiful thick card-like one when I was in my teens - a Taurus one, and it was infused with essential oils associated with the Taurean sign.
    It has been my book mark through hundreds of books (and it used to leave the smell through all of them, too, which was lovely).... kind of lost its scent about 10yrs ago though

    I would love a new one exactly the same, but have never seen anything even remotely the same.

    All of my Harry Potter books have Harry Potter bookmarks - I'm a bit of a freak that way!

    I easily get caught up in the hype with things like that

    Your bookmark is beautiful, Sarah

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    Jul 2007
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    Use anything that's near, stubs, tissue - anything, but I would NEVER fold a page. I SOMETIMES use the outer cover's inner flap, kwim. But only for the first few pages.
    And then I remember numbers. Currently I am busy with a Wilbur Smith and have no bookmark, but I am on page 247.

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    What a lovely bookmark Sarah.

    I try to use bookmarks, but Logan thinks it is hilarious to take the bookmark out and hide it, so most of the time they're reciepts or I remember the page number, or if Logan has just stolen my bookmark I just keep flipping through until I find where I was up to. I hate dog ear pages, it's a pet peeve, irritates me almost as much as seeing people attack books with hi-liters or bending the spine so the book is folded over. Yeah I'm a fusspot

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    Feb 2004
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    Oh yes, me too Melinda, bending the spine gives me cold shivers!

    How do you guys remember the page numbers??? I could go three days between reading sessions & there is no way I could remember a page number that long!

  14. #14

    Mar 2004
    Sparta
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    I buy bookmarks but usually end up using whatever is handy.
    I usually try to read forward to an easy number to remember if I don't have a bookmark something that ends in 5 or 0 or an easy number like 44 or 66.
    If I don't remember I just flip around the area I was in until I find where I was up to.

  15. #15
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    May 2003
    Beautiful Adelaide!
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    My current bookmark is about as useful to me as a chocolate fireguard.

    Olivia made it for me, and it is really cute: her handprint and a poem, laminated. And I love it.

    BUT every morning Olivia will come into bed with us, and see my current book, with the bookmark in it, on my bedside table, and grab it OUT OF THE BOOK and say "I made this for you Mummy"......and my place is lost again.......

  16. #16
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    Feb 2004
    Melbourne
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    Sounds like bookmarks are a favourite toy of everyone's kids LOL!! My new one is definitely being kept up high, would hate for my crystal to be broken!

  17. #17
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    Dec 2006
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    i refuse to go anywhere without getting to the end of a chapter - i'll spend an extra few minutes at work in the arvo so i'm at the end of a chapter before i go home! makes it easy if, for some reason, my book mark goes walk abouts! when i DO get to read at home, i do the same thing. at the moment, i've got four books on the go - two at work, two at home. i pick up whichever one i'm in the mood for at the time - so reading til chapters end is important otherwise i'll get confuzzled about where i'm at!

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    Feb 2004
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    Oh yes, definitely have to finish the chapter before stopping here too. I drive Aaron nuts, saying no no I can't do xyz yet because I have 3 pages to go first!! He just stops anywhere.

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