keeping your place

I usually find a leaf while I'm walking to the bus stop and use it until it is misplaced. Then, I go and grab another. My current leaf-mark has lasted me 6 months. They're always a lot more interesting than flat paper bookmarks.

I have dozens of bookmarkers. A few are pretty, fancy little ones made from tooled leather or handmade paper and many are giveaways from the library or bookstore. Unfortunately, I never seem to have one handy so I always wind up marking my place with an old, used envelope, a store receipt, an unused napkin etc. Whatever is handy is my bookmarker. LOL

I often use junk mail as a bookmark, they work great. That and the dust cover of hardcoverbooks work great too if you don't have a bookmark handy.

I usually read books at one sitting, but if not I usually use a post-it tag. Color coding them is a good idea. The worse bookmark we ever found in a library book was a strip of raw bacon someone had apparently used as a bookmark. Eeeewwwwww!

I can never seem to keep track of my bookmarks when I'm finished a book, so I will often just grab whatever is handy when I start a new one (piece of scrap paper, envelope, etc). The local library here still uses cards with the return date in the back of the book, so I usually use those now. I slip it in the pocket while I'm reading and when I finish the book so it doesn't get misplaced. Never need to go on the hunt since each book comes with one.

This is really an excellent idea! I also tended to misplace my bookmarks and started making my own bookmarks by printing nice sayings or quotes on nice paper, laminate them and use that as bookmarks. I was once very upset - A friend borrowed one of my books and she damaged the pages so much by just folding the corners over to keep her place. Since then, whenever someone borrows my books, I put one of my bookmarks in front of the book. That really helps to keep my books in good shape.

since they are my books I dog ear them, but if they are not I use anything, book mark, paperclip, envelope. I don't like doing that because I find the paper falls out and I lose my place anyhow.

OMG Modestah, you have solved one of my problems! The textbook for the course that I teach is a HUGE, thick book. I often need to reference and refer students to certain pages. I have numerous bookmarks but that is rather cumbersome to deal with. I like the idea of using different colored envelope corners so much better than my bookmarks! What a great tip. *scoots off to dig in the trash for junk mail envelopes*

Well, every marker has its pros and cons. I use bookmarks because I have the habit of facing the back of my bookmark to the page where I left off. It's easier to keep track of the paragraph where I left off because the bookmark is placed directly in line on it. The tip you gave off is good. I'll try it, but I could see that it will easily be misplaced because I'm kind of carrying the book anywhere with me and I am very easy to misplace little things. Colorful bookmarks makes me more interested in reading books.

I love bookmarks myself and it's common for me to buy them just because their pretty or have a verse or saying on them I like. I give them to others as gifts alot (an excuse to buy more) but have a dozen or more around the house to use... This idea of the envelops is a great idea though and can see me using it sometime when I've misplaced other bookmarks.

That's a great tip. Is your real name Heloise? I usually use postcards or cards as book markers. Rozarem sent me a stack of dream cards with explanations of dream symbols on the back, so I've been using them up. Don't even know how I got on their mailing list. Recently my daughter came to visit, and she asked to borrow a book. When she opened it, there was a mushy birthday card from her father, my ex-husband. I was so embarrassed when she read it aloud. She took the liberty of shredding it and putting it in the trash for me.

I usually use a book mark. But if there isn't one available I have used everything from a toothpick to a corner of a piece of junk mail! I don't ever dog ear a page in a book.

I use a broad-tipped marker and black out the parts that I've read. That makes it easy to get to the parts I haven't read yet, plus it forces me to remember everything I read. The public library has banned me from ever darkening their doorstep again. *grin* Actually, since my son usually has one or more Pokemon cards lying around, I appropriate one for a bookmark.

That's an excellent idea with the envelope corners to be used as bookmarks! But for me, too much hassle. I have various actual bookmarks that have been purchased by me or for me by friends and family, and I rarely ever use them (except for one crocheted cross that I keep in one of my bibles). I have two most common bookmarks in my books.... either a piece of folded toilet paper square or a cash register receipt. The toilet paper bookmarks started years ago when I rarely had tissues in the house, and would use toilet paper rolls instead, and it was just the most handy. It continued after having kids, because to be brutally honest, I get a lot of reading done in my bathroom because it's the quietest room in the house when the boys are awake. As for the cash register receipts, that is usually when I purchase a new book, and I'm so anxious to read it, that I pull it out of the bag, along with the receipt, and read right away.

I usually use a piece of torn off paper or an inkpen to place out of the top of the book but paper works better

our library gives out free bookmarks but i'm afraid i still dog ear the books. it's a bad habit and i must try harder.

I have a few bookmarks but usually I just use a little slip of paper- and I have found that coupons work well because they are a good size. I wouldn't dog ear the pages because I don't like to bend them.

I prefer a bookmark but can never find one when I need it - most of them have tassels on the end so the darn cat likes to steal them and drag them around the house. Most of the time I wind up using a scrap of paper.

That's a great idea but I prefer bookmarks that are bought in bookstores. I really love having bookmarks and I can say that I'm an avid collector of them. I don't like dog-earring because I don't like folding the pages on my book. I really love bookmarks. They rule!!!

i make use of whatever is convenient to me like some cards, papers or some stickers. :)