Did you like bookmarks as a kid?
I used to like getting them from the library. There were usually loads.
Sometimes they were laminated and given to me as a gift.
I also enjoyed using the string bookmark that was stitched into bog books like the Readers' Digest Book of Myths and Legends. Very handy those stringy ribbons.
Nowadays I've got into a bad habit of turning over the corner of a book I'm reading, especially old paperbacks like a dog's ear.
I can't imagine bookmarks being collectable but you never know. Did you use them readers? Do you now?
I'm the other way round, I folded pages as a kid and use bookmarks now!
ReplyDeleteVery sensible Kev. My dog ears do look scruffy!
DeleteI shared Kevin's trend as a corner folding kid. These days I use bookmarks, Woodsy. Even improvised ones. I like making page markers cut from redundant greetings cards. It's a satisfying way to get additional use from disposable greetings cards before posting them in to the recycle bin :)
ReplyDeleteVery eco-freindly Tone. I like your recycled bookmarks. A great idea.
DeleteI have a couple of bookmarks that I use on a regular basis. One is from Gorblimey Press, drawn by Barry Windsor Smith. The other came with a used book purchased through Amazon which is advertising for the used book dealer. Back in the 70's I had a number of gold embossed leather bookmarks that were being produced in the UK as souvenirs from different places such as The Tower of London. I seem to have misplaced all of those.
ReplyDeleteI remember those embossed leather bookmarks Terran. There maybe one in an old book of my parents somewhere here. The ends were frazzled I seem to recall. Thanks for the pictures of your Gorblimey press bookmarks. I shall blog them asap. I remember reading about Gorblimey in the Studio book.
DeleteI usually get bookmarks as gifts.Two of my favorites are lenticular with dinosaur murals.They have a deep 3D effect.Very cool looking.
ReplyDeleteLenticular. That's a great word Bri! I recall my Waverley ring that came with Man from Uncle Corgi car was Vari-Vue, another word for lenticular.
DeleteWhen I was a kid I had always tried to read a whole book "at once" or whe doing small breaks in reading - puting the book face down.
ReplyDeleteI remember that at grade school we all had "technical lessons" doing simple things from yarn, wood etc. Not sure if I still have a handwaved bookmark that we all had to make back then.
That's very crafty of you Ran, a weaved bookmark. As for reading a whole book at once, I only remember doing it once. I was 17 and read Fire From Heaven on the floor in front of a gas fire one winter in the Seventies. I read it through the night and didn't go to college the next day! It was about spontaneous combustion.
DeleteI have kept a pretty detailed book diary from the early 70's, which is why I did not use neither bookmarks nor dog ears but instead a blank piece of note paper with dates and remarks. What started as a bit pedantic endeavour as a kid has become in these 45+ years a valuable resource, preserving the timeline and details already once forgotten.
ReplyDeleteWhat a superb thing Arto, a journal from your youth. There is something wonderful about hearing from our younger selves. I like to read my old diaries now and then.
DeleteI have done the same, from January 1st 1979!
ReplyDeleteYou too! What do you record Kev?
DeleteEverything that happens to me except anything work-related (since that just gets in the way of life!). I normally steer clear of 'news' type events too, just my own furrow!
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