I am always losing bookmarks and, as I don’t like to fold down the edges of pages when I want to put a book down, I just find the nearest thing to hand to mark my place be it a bus ticket, or an envelope, or anything that will allow me to get back to where I had got to before.
Otherwise I have to guess where I was and end up starting to read and soon after realising that I had already read that part and was actually further along in the book than I thought I was, which I hate.
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Haha, nice lil’ rant. I’m usually okay with bookmarks. But yes, it is annoying when you lose the ‘spot’!
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I rarely use a formal bookmark–I’ll fold down pages if I have to, but usually I’ll grab something nearby like a coupon, a flier, a piece of notebook paper–anything that’s flat will work!
It’s even worse if you go too far ahead and then realise you’ve got to back-track 😉 I use random scraps of paper too.
I do the same. I use whatever is at hand even though I have a world of booksmarks. I just usually can’t find them . Here is my MM
I am the same way. Sometimes I just force myself to try and memorize the page or chapter number if I can’t find anything. Then I either jot it down the moment I do find something, or it just becomes embedded in my brain somehow that I manage to remember it the next time I pick up the book. I realize I’m incredibly lucky with the latter, which is why I don’t tend to do it too often.
I don’t have many actual bookmarks – just some card ones that have come with book orders or picked up free from my local library. Just this week I asked my mum to make me some beaded ones. Here’s my musing: http://daystarz.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/musing-mondays-13/