Book Porn

You're right actually, it's a bad idea. I'm really anal about my books.

No anal quips please, this is a serious topic.
 
I use electronic key-cards from hotels as my bookmarks. They're sleek, unobtrusive, they don't damage the spine of the book or the pages.
 
I prefer using receipts as bookmarks.

They are thin and it's ok if I lose/leave them somewhere.
 
I do tend to go rummaging around in antique centres and buy quite a few old postcards to use as bookmarks. I have a gorgeous one I'm using at the mo of Cairo with a message on the back from a young girl to her father back in England in 1911.
 


One of the bookstores I frequent provides a bookmarker with
every purchase. I've got enough bookmarkers to last the
remainder of my life—
and those of my heirs and assigns.​


 
A bookmarker should be very thin and inert - not marking the book in any way.

Many metal and leather bookmarks fail on both.

I have found a remarkable collection of ephemera used as bookmarks. One of my Dorothy L Sayers books still has a pre-war bus ticket as a bookmark.
 
I tend to devour my books!;)
....but I am a Pirate Scholar.
 
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A bookmarker should be very thin and inert - not marking the book in any way.

Many metal and leather bookmarks fail on both.

I have found a remarkable collection of ephemera used as bookmarks. One of my Dorothy L Sayers books still has a pre-war bus ticket as a bookmark.

I was digging through some old suitcases that my parents and grandparents used to store pictures in, and I found one of my grandfather's report cards from when he was a schoolboy. You could see his grades start to slip just before he enlisted in WWII.
 
A bookmarker should be very thin and inert - not marking the book in any way.

Many metal and leather bookmarks fail on both.

I have found a remarkable collection of ephemera used as bookmarks. One of my Dorothy L Sayers books still has a pre-war bus ticket as a bookmark.

Bus and train tickets make good bookmarks, and good reminders years later where I was when I read a particular book. "Dame Street to Abbey Street, April 2010." Dublin Bus.
 
A bookmarker should be very thin and inert - not marking the book in any way.

Many metal and leather bookmarks fail on both.

I have found a remarkable collection of ephemera used as bookmarks. One of my Dorothy L Sayers books still has a pre-war bus ticket as a bookmark.

True this, Mr Ustinov. :)

A bookmark then is the opposite to what you want in a cock. I should delete my above post.

I tend not to use my silver or metal bookmarkers as they damage the pages.

And as always, you have the best stories/anecdotes on books and indeed most stuff.
 
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