Do you like to collect book markers?

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Re: Do you like to collect book markers?

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I used to love collecting bookmarks. Now, though, I usually just use a piece of paper. For some reason, I always end up losing bookmarks.
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I love book markers. The different shapes, quote's and elaborate illustrations, make them essential to reading a book.
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I used to do this when I was very young. My grandmother got me into it, and greatly encouraged me to read from the time I was just beginning to talk. She would keep every one she came across, and whenever we went on our journey to the library we would get to pick one out of a pile on the checkout counter. She would get them from magazines and sometimes her town's little grocery store. My mom started to get me some as well: metal ones, shaped ones that clipped onto pages, ones with my school pictures on them, etc. I loved all of them, especially the ones with creatures or characters from books I loved the most. It was like collecting stamps, I guess.

I don't know when I stopped. I think around when I was entering middle school I lost some and started throwing away ones that were torn and frayed. I get a little emotional whenever I find one that manages to have survived through the numerous moves I've made. I might start collecting them again, actually.
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I do! And I usually enjoy making my own out of dried flowers and other objects laying around the house. I find them pretty and they sometimes remind me of great books I was enjoying when I first got them. :D
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I started using holiday postcards as bookmarkers after a trip to Rome (where I bought way too many as souvenirs). Now I collect postcards to use as bookmarkers (and I got way too many)
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I really don't have them. I always use a piece of paper instead.
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Yes, I collect book marks. But I also make book marks of my own.
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I started collecting years ago and liked it pretty much. I also make them. It's fun!
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I once used to collect them. And now I have enough of them. I am particularly attracted to those with cute and funny quotes on them.
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Yup. I have a small pile of them that I keep on my bookcase.
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Post by DE Navarro »

I kind of collect book markers. What I mean by that is I don't specifically do it as a hobby, I don't catalog them in any way, I don't scan through them or display them anywhere, I just have a jar and when I get one it goes into the jar and there are hundreds of them in the jar. I find many old bookmarkers in used books when I go book hunting and I grab them and add them to the jar. Some day I may look through them. Perhaps I can do a volume of "found" or "discovered" poetry using the book markers as the basis of the poems in the book.
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I have quite a few but can never find them when I need one and am ashamed to admit I am that person that often sticks a random receipt or piece of paper in between the pages instead :shifty:
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Annica Steyn wrote: 12 Aug 2021, 15:05 I have quite a few but can never find them when I need one and am ashamed to admit I am that person that often sticks a random receipt or piece of paper in between the pages instead :shifty:
No need to be ashamed. I often use receipts or other thin scraps. It's actually better for the book. Sometimes a bookmarker can be thick and if tugged into the center can stretch the binding of the book. Sometimes this makes the book want to naturally open to that page where the thick bookmark damaged the binding by stretching it.
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I have never thought about it like that, thank you for lessening my shame... I like to think that re-using scraps of paper also gives them extra purpose in life :)
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Annica Steyn wrote: 13 Aug 2021, 04:04 I have never thought about it like that, thank you for lessening my shame... I like to think that re-using scraps of paper also gives them extra purpose in life :)
Reuse, repurpose, recycle. Always a good policy in stewarding our planet. Here are two poems I thought you might be interested in reading in light of "reuse, repurpose, and recycle.

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