Bookmarks
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I used to dog-ear but haven't done that for several years, especially where more expensive non-fiction books are concerned. I've purchased a few bookmarks over the years and have also cross-stitched or crocheted my own, but if there are none handy will use a scrap of paper and replace it later with a "real" one.
In one of the four books I'm currently reading, I'm using the business card of the friend who lent me the book. The other books have got either free bookmarks from the library or bookstore, or the due-date card from the library. I do have "real" bookmarks, people used to buy them for me as gifts. Mom cross-stitched one for me once but I have no idea where it is now (bad daughter). I will generally use whatever's handy, including dog-ear if that's my only option. Most of my books were purchased used anyway, so they're already bent up.
You people must be reading in some strange places to not have anything handy but random bus tickets and receipts. 
I pretty much always read at home and so I just take one from my collection of bookmarks.
I was an avid reader as a kid and came across many bookmarks, some hand-made, others gifts or free, not many that I actually bought myself though. I have some favorites that I use (I try to pick one that matches the theme of the book). I would never, never, NEVER dog-ear pages!!
Since I always keep the bookmark in the book the only time I would need one and not have it available is if I've just started a new book and I'm not at home (though if I am taking a new book with me somewhere I usually pick out a bookmark for it beforehand - I plan ahead for such contingencies). In that case, if a bookmark was not handy, I would just not use anything at all. I pretty much always stop reading at the end of a chapter, so I would just remember what chapter I'm on.
Now that I have a Kindle it does all of this for me, but I still read "real" books as well.
I pretty much always read at home and so I just take one from my collection of bookmarks.I was an avid reader as a kid and came across many bookmarks, some hand-made, others gifts or free, not many that I actually bought myself though. I have some favorites that I use (I try to pick one that matches the theme of the book). I would never, never, NEVER dog-ear pages!!
Since I always keep the bookmark in the book the only time I would need one and not have it available is if I've just started a new book and I'm not at home (though if I am taking a new book with me somewhere I usually pick out a bookmark for it beforehand - I plan ahead for such contingencies). In that case, if a bookmark was not handy, I would just not use anything at all. I pretty much always stop reading at the end of a chapter, so I would just remember what chapter I'm on.
Now that I have a Kindle it does all of this for me, but I still read "real" books as well.
As I rarely read without also underlining stuff and making notes in the margin I just use whatever pen was near when I started reading the book. 
I have been known to use one of those free postcards you get in cafés and bars, in books that I've borrowed though...
I have been known to use one of those free postcards you get in cafés and bars, in books that I've borrowed though...
I tend to dog ear my books. Winds the hell out of my other half though i have been going thruogh a training session on using a bookmark.
people who dog-ear should be punched. 
it's disrespectful.
i use several book marks, mostly i use one from First Contact with the E-E on, i also use one with X-Men comic art on for my comic tradepaperback reading. I also have a Transformers comic art one and one promoting The Mummy.
all old, battered and well used.
it's disrespectful.i use several book marks, mostly i use one from First Contact with the E-E on, i also use one with X-Men comic art on for my comic tradepaperback reading. I also have a Transformers comic art one and one promoting The Mummy.
all old, battered and well used.
people who dog-ear should be punched.
Bah! -Sure, it used to be like that back when books cost an arm and a leg and only very few people actually could afford (or even read) them... but these days when novels (sometimes) come as a gift when you buy a magazine or newspaper you can hardly expect us to pay the same reverence to something as commonplace as a book!
people who dog-ear should be punched.
Bah! -Sure, it used to be like that back when books cost an arm and a leg and only very few people actually could afford (or even read) them... but these days when novels (sometimes) come as a gift when you buy a magazine or newspaper you can hardly expect us to pay the same reverence to something as commonplace as a book!
Books are meant to be read, not hermetically sealed away. As long as they're still readable, I don't give a damn about a few folks or a bent spine, especially if it's a paperback I picked up for less than ten bucks.
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I believe a well worn book is a well loved book. Just my own opinion on that.
I'm another who uses pretty much whatever flat item is nearby. I own a few actual bookmarks, but I'm pretty sure I've never actually used them.
I'd no more dog-ear or bend back the spine of a book - regardless of its cost - than rip out its pages. A book can be "well-worn" without being needlessly damaged. But that's just me; what people choose to do with their own possessions is none of my concern, after all.
I'd no more dog-ear or bend back the spine of a book - regardless of its cost - than rip out its pages. A book can be "well-worn" without being needlessly damaged. But that's just me; what people choose to do with their own possessions is none of my concern, after all.
I rarely dog-ear unless they are secondhand and already beat up.
It is also very uncommon for me to write or underline bits in books except, in the past, in text books that I used for study, and then only in pencil.
However the other day I bought a copy of 33 Men which is about the Chilean Miners. With 33 men being talked about, some of whom had the same first name, while others had the same last name, I was getting them mixed up. On page 30 there was the list of the trapped miners as it first released by the mine management. Two of the miners first listed weren't actually trapped and two of those that were trapped weren't on the original list. I added those two, and wrote beside the names of miners that weren't. I wrote the ages of the men beside their names (I got some of the ages off the internet). I also wrote brief descriptions besides some of the men (i.e suffered from claustophobia, diabetic, toothache, engineer, the Bolivian etc).
It is also very uncommon for me to write or underline bits in books except, in the past, in text books that I used for study, and then only in pencil.
However the other day I bought a copy of 33 Men which is about the Chilean Miners. With 33 men being talked about, some of whom had the same first name, while others had the same last name, I was getting them mixed up. On page 30 there was the list of the trapped miners as it first released by the mine management. Two of the miners first listed weren't actually trapped and two of those that were trapped weren't on the original list. I added those two, and wrote beside the names of miners that weren't. I wrote the ages of the men beside their names (I got some of the ages off the internet). I also wrote brief descriptions besides some of the men (i.e suffered from claustophobia, diabetic, toothache, engineer, the Bolivian etc).
I am glad to find out that I am not the only one that does this. I have received more than a dozen bookmarks from Book Depository so it is getting easy to find one that matches a book.
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I tend to either read to the end of a chapter, memorise thepage number or use whatever's handy, eg a small magnifying glass. Currenty I'm reading Embassytown on the Kindle, which of course has the advantage of keeping the current page ready.
Back when I travelled a lot by train I used no bookmark -I just tore out the page(s) I had read 
Of course I read a lot of pulp bought at stations in those days...
For a real book, which means a ...spare-time reading book, I use a bought book mark. My favourite is a stuffed dog...very cute...little dog head and paws, a loooooooooooooooooooong flat body and down the other paws. While reading the book I like playing around with it, its so soft.
And some books have those integrated bookmarks, these (mostly) red pieces of string, so if a book has that I use that.
For study books I use whatever I have, a paper, an old bill, a pencil, a tissue, handkerchief or little sticky papers for marking the pages. Or I just let them open on the side I stopped reading.
I never do dog-ears... we call them donkey-ears by the way... that would pain me somehow.
TerokNor
And some books have those integrated bookmarks, these (mostly) red pieces of string, so if a book has that I use that.
For study books I use whatever I have, a paper, an old bill, a pencil, a tissue, handkerchief or little sticky papers for marking the pages. Or I just let them open on the side I stopped reading.
I never do dog-ears... we call them donkey-ears by the way... that would pain me somehow.
TerokNor
I'd no more dog-ear or bend back the spine of a book - regardless of its cost - than rip out its pages. A book can be "well-worn" without being needlessly damaged. But that's just me; what people choose to do with their own possessions is none of my concern, after all.
I can understand why people don't like to dog-ear, but not bending the spine baffles me, to be honest. How do people comfortably read paperbacks if they keep the spine all stiff?
^ I can read a paperback just fine and keep the spine stiff. In fact, that's exactly how I've always read them.
I have books that have been read multiple, multiple times and still look like they just came from the bookstore.
I have books that have been read multiple, multiple times and still look like they just came from the bookstore.
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