Day 27 #10minchallenge - Bookmarks
A Month Long Birthday Celebration
Welcome to Day 27
What is the strangest thing you have used as a bookmark?
I enjoy physical books and the experience feels different to me than an e-book. I seem to recall more from a physical book. Those who follow me know how much I love my library and my holds! Most of my physical books have come from there.
I will often use the library receipt as a bookmark. I have used paper money, a pen, tissue, photos, Post-its, and notecards as placeholders. Sometimes the cat lays on my book. He is not trying to save my place, however. He only wants to divert my attention!
I have beautiful bookmarks tucked safely away in my desk drawers and rarely use them. One looks like a tiny rug which makes me happy to use. Maybe I will pull it out!
Make a list of things you could use as a bookmark. If you feel moved, make yourself a bookmark.
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Set your timer for 10 minutes….and GO!
Happy creating!
I have this tension with bookmarks-- I'm the kind of reader who doesn't really need more than one at a time, yet I find them so addictively desirable. I don't know who's out there making them, but they're doing a bang-up job.
After all this time, maybe my favorite bookmark is one which a colleague made and sent to me thirty years ago. I might not notice if I lost other bookmarks, but this is one I'd genuinely be saddened to misplace.
On the other hand, our little library contains a lot of books from my oldest brother, most which I've not yet read. Pull one off the shelf, and its bookmark is likely to fall to the floor-- a ticket from some flight he took back when he had that kind of job (traveling a lot).
I’ve used many things as bookmarks. A rubber band. A receipt. A train ticket. A feather. A blade of grass. Another (smaller) book. A pen. A fridge magnet. My memory. A business card. A shoe. A ruler. Lego. A post-it.
I went through a stage of not using bookmarks when I was still in school. I wrote down the page number in my diary to track how many pages and how many books I was reading. I soon gave up because I didn’t just read a chapter and then stop. I kept reading between meals or when waiting for the school bus, or during recess, or when the class was boring. It was tedious taking out my diary every time I read a few pages. I soon reverted back to using bookmarks. I think I started writing the page numbers on the bookmark instead of my diary. I still remember I read an average of 80 books a year in the last 3 years of Elementary school.