Books

I use whatever is around… a receipt, a square of TP, a cat’s whisker once. I have a bunch of bookmarks but they’re never around when I need them (and I always forget to grab one when I grab a book off the bookshelf).

A sticker of cute dogs in space suits and the caption “we want fully automated intergalactic luxury gay space communism” because it reminds me of Ian M. Banks - also gets a laugh out of people 😁

Many years ago, I fell from the stairs due to a diabetic episode. I was kept in a coma for a few days. When I woke up I had this id bracelet on my arm. I still use it as a bookmark till this day.

Book Darts! I’m typically reading for research and writing and the book darts are great for coming back to the right sentence when I’ve stopped off. I’ll leave them in long-term if I’m swapping between edited volumes—I’ve got a tin of 100, so it’s no problem if I leave a few within books here and there. I typically add one to the first page whenever a new book comes home. If I haven’t got one already placed or I start reading while out and about I dog-ear.

I don’t. I just look at the page I’m on when I’m done reading and then open it to that page when I come back.

I have a probably too large and pedantic collection of cardboard bookmarks, some bought in remote cities, some given to me as gifts, some that went included inside other books. I even have a real chinese Yuan/Rembimbi bill that I got from a friend, long dead.

Sometimes I even use napkins and buy receipts and pieces of torn newspaper.

Some cardboard advertisement card I got with a shirt I ordered online.

I fold the corner of the page that I stopped on.

Small sticky notes. That allows me to bookmark at a specific sentence rather than just the page.

@ModernRisk a drawing my daughter made on a ripped piece of construction paper. It was her idea to use it as a bookmark.

I have a bunch of magnetic bookmarks, I'm usung mainly them because thise don't fall out accidentally

A bookmark... one of these magnetic ones (although you need to careful; some of them are too thick and leave actual marks on the pages).

I fold any piece of paper into one of those dog-ear corner bookmarks. I've got dozens around, made of everything from sticky notes to receipts to a parking ticket. They way I do it has a line going down the middle on one side that I use to show me which side of the page I'm on.

Kleenex, usually since I can never find my real bookmark. I seem to have left it in a book somewhere in my bookshelf...

Another book

These 3d printed ones. https://www.printables.com/model/59453-bookmark-basic I use tiny prints to finish up the last meters of a filament roll. I've made tons of these and give them away.

I don't like honest bookmarks as well. A proper bookmark should be mean-spirited and lie to me, so that I'll never find my place again!

I keep bookmarks whenever I get them, also picture postcards etc. I have some that I've bought, others I've made (e.g. knitted or embroidered). Mainly I use strips of thin white card that I razor off an A4 sheet.

I laminated some of my duplicate Pokemon cards (don't use holographics as they heat up in the laminating machine!!!) and use those, now.

My wife bought a few sets of bookmarks off aliexpress. They look really good. Here's an example:

Here's the link: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004921501847.html, but you can find tons of styles and models.

Combination of free bookmarks I’ve gotten from book orders and old Pokémon cards

Primarily, library receipts!