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I collect bookmarks from my favourite bookshops and use those free postcards they give out places, so there's always something stuck into one of my books.The strangest thing I ever found in a book was a very small greeting card with flowers on the front and nothing inside but a hand drawn map/drawing of a garden.
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My favorite bookmark is one that is a magnifier ... my eyes get tired by the end of the day, especially when I've been reading alot.A few years back my brother gave me a leather-bound edition of Dickens's A Christmas Carol . It's hard to read the date but it looks like March 8, 1896. Inside is a calling card with an inscription in elegant writing: To Mis Fannie, from Frank L Martin, with best wishes for a happy Xmas
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All I have used for a the last 5 or so years as a bookmark is a circular paper clip. I used it once when I had one nearby and nothing else of the right size. Loved it and have used hardly anything else since.
The wierdest bookmark I ever found was actually pretty cool. :)I was in a thrift shop out-of-state that I occassionally drop into whenever I'm in town. They have alot of books for 25 cents each or 10/$1. So obviously, I make sure I have 10, not 6. I picked up some hardbound Reader's Digest books with books in them I thought I'd like to read. Inside one was a crisp $20 bill, with a 1960's printing date on it. Someone had not only used it for a bookmark, but then the book got donated to a thrift shop and shelved, all without anyone noticing it or it falling out! And the book only cost me ten cents! I made $19.90 on the deal! lol (This is just one of the reasons a friend here on Goodreads gave me the title of Book Sale Queen.)
I can't say i've ever found a bookmark but I am absolutely useless and lose them all the time.. I now use whatevers close to hand, which could be a receipt, a bank statement, one of the kids drawings i've even used an earbud (unused i'd like to add) Iam currently on the look out for a nice bookmark so maybe i might take better care!
My favourite bookmark is a carved sandlewood letter opener with an elephant on top.
The weirdest bookmark I ever found was inside some book I can't reca|| about the big bang theory I bought at Va|u Vi||age. The bookmark was a |amenated scripture passage.I used to have a hundred |itt|e bookmarks ranging from everything from storebought bookmarks, to fifty year o|d handmade ones, to feathers I had found in the grass. But most|y these days I either use the page tracker in the Current|y Reading widget on Goodreads, or stick my f|at reading |amp in between the pages if I'm on the road and without my |aptop.
The weirdest bookmark I've ever heard about (but didn't actually witness) was a razor blade. I work at a library, and you get all kinds of weird things in books. The razor blade definitely tops the list -- one of my coworkers found it and I just think it's ultra creepy, hahaha. In my personal experience, however, the most unusual one I ever found was a handmade one from a little boy to his mommy. Super cute. :)I don't use bookmarks, honestly. I hardly ever leave a book so long I can't remember where I was, and if I did, there's a good reason and I need to either let the book go or start over.
Cool topic! I'm almost as bad about bookmarks as I am about books - I have DOZENS of them! I have bought some of them, some have been given to me as gifts, and some I've gotten for free, here and there (many from charities). It can be fun trying to kind of fit the bookmark to the book I'm reading. I do sometimes avoid the ones with tassels, although I have some really nice ones (a recent gift was a beautiful holographic one of colorful butterflies), because I know my cats would get into them and chew the tassels off. I also have a problem with losing them! I'm sure I left them in books, but I don't know which ones. Last year, the sci-fi author Anne McCaffrey passed away, so I pulled out a book I have with her first three Pern novels, and found a long,long-lost bookmark in the front cover! Yay! I wish I knew where the others are - I have at least three that I really liked that are MIA. I can't remember ever finding a bookmark or anything else interesting in a book, though.
I LOVE bookmarks and never use them...I'm fond of a sticky-note that can mark my page...so far, I haven't found one of interest - darn it!
I have dozens of bookmarks. I love them. I'm also in a group here on GRs that exchanges them monthly. About the only kind I don't like are either magnetic, or the thin curved metal ones because those slip out too easily.
Well, I have tons of bookmarks ... for my 60th birthday a friend in another state wanted to do something special and get me "60 somethings ..." She hit on the idea of bookmarks because she knew I loved to read. The letter she included in the package telling me about the project and how she collected them is almost more precious than all the bookmarks. (For example, she mentioned it to her book club and they all contributed a book mark each.)
Book Concierge wrote: "Well, I have tons of bookmarks ... for my 60th birthday a friend in another state wanted to do something special and get me "60 somethings ..." She hit on the idea of bookmarks because she knew I l..."That's a beautiful gift. :)
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All these stories about people using torn paper and receipts is making me sad! I have a collection of bookmarks and I love matching the book and the bookmark. I buy some of the fancy ones, but most are the swag kind that you get for free.
I wish I had a cool story like finding a plane ticket in a book, but I don't. Thanks for starting the thread, Kayci :)
I would love to have a collection of fancy bookmarks, maybe enough so i can match to the book I'm reading! I shall do my best in future to keep a hold of the ones i have =)
Many times if you find an author's official website they'll send you bookmarks if you mail them a SASE. I've gotten signed bookmark's that way, even signed bookplates too. Nora Roberts sends out a magnet to those on her mailing list with her new releases marked on it if you're on her mailing list. Debbie Macomber sends out stickers to her mailing list that you can put on your calendar for her releases for the year, along with a bookmark.
Over the years I've collected several different bookmarks that I fell in love with and then promptly lost after using them a few times. When our youngest daughter graduated high school a year ago the photographer offered us bookmarks as one of the ways to share her senior picture. I ended up with about 30 extras and they are perfect for me! A pic of my daughter AND enough to spare per chance I lose some.
I have a large collection of 'proper' bookmarks, but I also use any scrap of paper that is handy when I pick up the book. I like to leave my book marks in the book once I am finished with it though, so whenever I reopen books that I read a while back, I am transported down memory lane for a minute. I love finding old train/plane/concert tickets years after the fact, or prayer cards from a funeral, or neat quotations scribbled on a scrap of paper...As for the coolest bookmark I've ever used... I think the prize would have to go to the old ticket to the Magic Theatre that my father let me borrow for my first reading of Hesse's Steppenwolf. It made the magical realism seam so much more real, and reality seem just a little bit more magical. A close second would be the 100 dollars I once found in a used Russian textbook.
Well scince i read alot of books at once or stop reading one for a bit or somthing i tend to run out of bookmarks or i end up lossing them :). so ill use what ever, sometimes peices of paper, or pictures, and if i have an avalible on a bookmark/well i dont think ive found anything odd in a book yet, unless im completing spacing on it, but i think its always kind of fun to find odd things in books, it makes you wonder where theyve been and if you want you can creat the whole journey of that book or how or why that odd thing was in it. Also the things you can find in books can sometimes be pretty cool and or interesting :)
Catherine wrote: "I have a large collection of 'proper' bookmarks, but I also use any scrap of paper that is handy when I pick up the book. I like to leave my book marks in the book once I am finished with it though..."That tops the $20 bill I found by $80 bucks. lol
It is even weirder when you consider that this was in a Russian book in Switzerland.
You guys and finding money in books. Lucky folks.
Catherine wrote: "It is even weirder when you consider that this was in a Russian book in Switzerland."Yes, very strange. Mine I just found in a ten cent Reader's Digest condensed book in a Kansas catholic thrift shop.
I love my bookmarks - have a box full of them. I do like the magnetic ones - not the metal, they may be pretty but do slip out of books. I change my bookmark usually with each book I read.
I didn't read the whole thread, but...I make my own bookmarks sometimes. As in, with cardboard and scrapbook paper and fun scissors and stickers and stuff. <3
Once I found a laminated set of stamps inside a book. Quite a neat bookmark, actually.
I use index cards often, because for some odd reason we have a bookmark monster in this house and they ALL disappear within days. I pick up stuff all the time - bookmarks at the library every time we go not the lease - and for some reason, when I need one I can never find one! :{
Dalynn, making bookmarks from scrapbook supplies sounds like so much fun! They would be great gifts, too. If I didn't have more bookmarks than I can use already, I would probably make some for myself. Hmmm, maybe I'll make one for my mother.
Dalynn... I've made a bookmark out of a collection of foreign stamps I'd gotten over time in the mail. It's mostly Australian, French and British stamps... on both sides. Might be a Canadian stamp or two on it. :)
I love to trade book marks so I think it is a great idea. Not sure I have ever received any weird book marks. I also like the magnetic ones as they definitely hold your page for you in a book.
The weirdest bookmark I ever found was in a book I picked up at a yard sale, it was a piece of vellum with some sort of ink design on it (it looked like an original design). It was very pretty. As for my bookmarks, sometimes I have some that I pick up at book sales, but usually I use prayer cards from missionaries who have visited our church.
The only book in my home that has a dedicated book mark is my Bible, it has a piece of plastic canvas with 5 ribbons threaded in, which I can use to mark 5 places.
As long as I was taking pictures of my dusty books for the February challenge, I thought I would take one of my bookmarks, too! This is most of them:
It is. But I bet I could totally rival that. XD I have an immense collection. It get back to you on that. :D
Looks like you have some neat ones in there, I so better not let my son see the penguin ones though!
Manda wrote: "Looks like you have some neat ones in there, I so better not let my son see the penguin ones though!"The two penguin bookmarks and the polar bear one were from the World Wildlife Fund.
Denise wrote: "As long as I was taking pictures of my dusty books for the February challenge, I thought I would take one of my bookmarks, too! This is most of them:"
I totally want the Dracula one!
Talking about DIYing bookmarks reminded me of this. Does anyone else find a lot of four leaf clovers? Well, I've been hording them obsessively since age six, and while I used to preserve them by way of scotch tape, I've gotten lazy and started making long rows of them with clear packing tape. They make awesome bookmarks too. ^^
Love it Kayci! Would make a very cool bookmark indeed!
I have now nabbed my sons 'over the hedge' book mark. If i manage not to lose this one I shall treat myself to a nice, new, expensive one :)
I found the stack of bookmarks yesterday, that I made at Christmas time. I started making some, intending to make around 30 or 40 to give as gifts. Then the Lord blessed us beyond measure and (especially since we were out of time) we were able to purchase gifts instead. I only got around a dozen bookmarks made, and they are super simple at that, so I'm just keeping them. :) Glad to find them though!
I love the betty boop one!!!!! <333
and the weirdest bookmark I ever found in a book was a birthday invitation for a 4 year old boy whose picture was edited in photoshop to make him look the grouch from sesame street :) it was soo cute
Kayci wrote: "I totally want the Dracula one!Talking about DIYing bookmarks reminded me of this. Does anyone else find a lot of four leaf clovers? Well, I've been hording them obsessively since age six, and while I used to preserve them by way of scotch tape, I've gotten lazy and started making long rows of them with clear packing tape. They make awesome bookmarks too. ^^
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Wow, I'm surprised you could even make it out, since the flash seemed to reflect most on that one! That was from PBS, when they did a new production of Dracula a few years back.
I used to do the same thing with 4-leaf clovers and scotch tape! I had two of them, which I kept tucked into the edge of my mirror, but one disappeared years ago, and I'm not sure what I did with the other one.
Sydney wrote: "I love the betty boop one!!!!! <333"I LOVE Betty Boop! I have lots of figurines, a coin bank, an ashtray, a bobblehead, a suncatcher, etc. in my living room, and some magnets on my refrigerator, and an 8-VHS set of the cartoons. Oh, and a Halloween sweatshirt and socks, and a Christmas sweatshirt, too!
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@Denise, I love the Dracula bookmark.The only thing I've ever found in my books were folded up pieces of paper just regular bookmarks, nothing too out there.
Usually I use the Rosetta stone bookmarks that I often get with my barns and noble orders.
Book Concierge wrote: "Well, I have tons of bookmarks ... for my 60th birthday a friend in another state wanted to do something special and get me "60 somethings ..." She hit on the idea of bookmarks because she knew I l..."What a beautiful idea. Wonderful gift idea for any of us.
When I saw this link on Stumble I immediately thought of this thread.Best bookmark ever?
http://vimeo.com/37070907
i got a 3D bookmark where you see either a kitten or a white tiger :D
Questions:
What is the weirdest bookmark you've found in a book you purchased/borrowed?
Do you have a special bookmark that follows you around with your current read? Do books on your shelf have a dedicated bookmark?
My answers:
The weirdest bookmark I found was in a used copy of Son of a Witch I once bought. It was a stub to an airplane ticket from Los Angeles to Melbourne, Australia. Just for perspective: I live in The-Middle-of-Nowhere, Tennessee.
As a kid, I made due with bits of torn off paper and such. Once, I very clearly remember sitting in the back of my parent's car and nicking a single strand of my mum's long hair to place in my book.
These days I'm not nearly as inventive. I've been using the throwaway bit from my Blockbuster mail-in DVD envelope.