Hey, everybody! Congratulations, we’re almost halfway there. Right about now you might be needing a break, and so you’ll set aside whatever you’re reading at the moment. What better time to think of how to mark your place?
You have two options for your challenge this hour. 1) is to create a bookmark to stick in that book and take a picture of it. This can be paper-folding, illustrating, whatever you like! You could theme it to your book, or just make something pretty (or funny, like the one above). Handmade bookmarks are a great chance to be creative!
Or, if you’d prefer, 2) tell us about what you like to use as bookmarks and why. For example: Mia is marking her current book of choice with one free bookmark advertising Christopher Moore’s Fluke that she got free from Barnes & Noble years ago, and one business card for an alterations place here in town; she frequently marks books with receipts, scraps of paper, and sometimes even other books (how meta).
After you’ve photographed your bookmark or thought about your bookmarking choices, make a post on your blog and link back to it here–or simply leave a comment. We’ll randomly pick a winner at Hour 13 to get a book of their choice (worth up to $10) from the Book Depository. Now get marking!
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To be honest I use random scraps of things to mark my place in books. Anything paper-like, string-like, or anything that is flat and close to hand I use. I think it’s just because I’m lazy? I dunno.
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I am choosing option 2. I have a preference for leather book marks that stay in place well. I can pick up where I left off.
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I only use bookmarks as bookmarks. I’m kind of OCD about it… hahaha
If I was at home right now, I’d soooo create a bookmark, but I’m at my parents’ house and they don’t have anything fun. Boooo!
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To mark my place, I usually just use bookmarks. However, most of them are signed by different authors.
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I usually use anything I can get my hands on when I pause reading.
May it be a piece of paper, the receipt, a CD, a concert ticket – it just has to be thin enough, so I may close the book properly – I try to avoid those “marks” book covers get when you open them too often as long as possible. The most shameful way to keep track of my reading progress I have used yet, was to dog-ear the page I currently was reading, because I had absolutely nothing else to use.
In general I try to keep my books in good state, so it shames me to do anything to them. Even books we read in school. It literally pained me to see that someone who borrowed it before me had marked, underlined or commented something in a book I was reading.
I also use random things. And I like to leave them in my books after I am done reading so that when I look back at the book later, I have reminders of what was going on in my life. I use movie stubs or receipts from stores or this week I used my voters confirmation strip thing. I also like to use post it notes as a bookmark because the stick where I want them to and they don’t tend to fall out. I very rarely use real bookmarks. I tend to lose those.
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I have tons of really pretty bookmarks, but I rarely use them. You will most likely find my place marked with the receipt from the library or a random piece of paper.
Megan
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If I can find them, I use the bookmarks I sometimes get sent with books from The Book Depository. If I can’t, and let’s face it, more often than not that’s the case, I use post-its, old receipts, torn off pieces of paper, old bus passes, envelopes, toothpicks – whatever’s handy and lying around.
I was given a lovely magnetic one by friend, but it got lost. :(
Right now I’m using one of the Book Depository ones.
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I have such a vast bookmark collection, but unfortunately I use whatever’s around. Right now I’m using sheets from a little penguin notepad I use. I also use business cards, mail, old assignment sheets… whatever.
Jane
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I used to love bookmarks but don’t use them very often any more — now, when I do use one, it’s generally just a postagram of my grandson because he’s adorable.
http://instagram.com/p/QvLODVMjNk/
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Fun! I decided to take a picture of all the things I use as bookmarks! :)
http://www.justalillost.com/2012/10/12/deweys-24-hour-readathon-2012/#Hr10
I just made a bookmark. Here it is, just scroll down…
http://avidreader25.blogspot.com/2012/10/dewey-read-thon.html
My update is in this blog post. I created a two sided bookmark!
http://ryguy19.blogspot.ca/2012/10/hour-10-update-including-mini-challenge.html
Oh, I don’t think I can do this challenge. You see, I never use bookmarks. I just, ahem, find my place without marking it. Actually, I thought all big readers did that… until I met my husband. (Oh, he uses a very old, very thin, almost invisible paper receipt, BTW…)
2) I don’t usually use bookmarks, and when I do, it’s whatever’s lying around! In school I use pencils and pens, notecards, a calculator, another book, whatever works! Often, though, I just shut the book and find my place later. It seems to work!
One bookmark I like, though, comes from a bookstore called R.J. Julia’s, and it says “Be careful. The next page may be odd.”, and is one of the book marks they stick in you book after you buy something..they makes me smile though, and I like to place them strategically in some of my favorite books!
I use Tarot cards as bookmarks. Some of them are so ornate and pretty. And there are many of them so each book in my library has a corresponding bookmark. But I never dogear. It’s my biggest pet peeve.
Now I use only bookmarks for bookmarking, and I usually use the bookmarks from Book Depository, because I like them, and I don’t want to use my beautiful &/or signed bookmarks.
For me, it’s not only to be a bookmark, because I have some really plain ones that I don’t want to use, and probably never will.
When I was little I was usually dog-earing the books (I know, bad, now I never do that), later on I used my library card for bookmarking, and now only bookmarks.
Also, I’m kinda OCD about my books and my bookmarks lol
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I don’t use one either. I may occasionally toss a random piece of paper in there, but I’m more likely to just remember where I was :)
I have so many random bookmarks, but recently started collecting form places I’ve visited. Here’s my post about them: http://lmdqueen.blogspot.com/2012/10/read-thon-hour-10.html#comment-form
This is a bookmark I made a long time ago, and it might not be right for this challenge, but I had to share :D :D
Do you like it?
I have a whole bunch of bookmarks from friends, ones that I’ve made, that I’ve bought, etc. Yet for some reason I most often seem to use a receipt or post-it note as a bookmark, because I worry about losing my pretty / personal ones. Which is very silly, but there ya have it.
I’m currently using an empty bag of pretzel M&Ms.
http://agnesmackbooks.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/read-a-thon-hour-10-mini-challenge/
I’ve been thinking about making my own bookmarks, but I have yet to actually try doing it.
I used to just put a piece of paper in a book and then I started reading book blogs and realized that real bookmarks exist. I had this really pretty bookmark with muffins and zombies and it was my favorite. And than it disappeared. I still haven’t found it. Now I use a bookmark with Harry Potter (because I love the series).But I want to have some nice bookmarks with quotes on them :)
I have a jar full of the bookmarks Book Depository sends with their books that I use. Post-it notes work great too.
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I made a origami bookmark for this challenge it’s on this page http://www.cravingpages.nl/leesmarathon-2012/
You’d have to scroll down a bit to see it :)
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I usually use bills I received at a coffee shop :P I usually read in bars, so I just pick the bill and put it in my book before I go :P
But I still made one in honour to this mini challenge :P It was full!
Normally I have this super cute bookmark with magnetic.
But since I just moved. I just crabbed what I could find. Which was a random bookmark from a swag I once got :)
I use all kinds of random things as bookmarks. Photos, pens, receipts etc. Sometimes even real bookmarks! I’ve quite a collection of them, they’re just never around when I need them… Here’s one of the weirdest things I’ve marked a book with:
http://nijiclovers.blogspot.com/2012/10/deweys-read-thon.html
You inspired me to look up those ol’ pinterest posts to see what bookmarks and pagemarkers I wanted to make, thanks! I posted my favorite bookmark, besides this I also tend to use crochet projects/hooks, ribbons and grocerie receipts!
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I have a whole collection of bookmarks from my friends and from various bookstores, but I’ve also been known to use receipts, napkins, leaves, other books, pens, and anything else lying next to me.
I would love to Create a bookmark right now, but that would take too much time during the readathon. I love to pimp those tags with a watercolour background and stamps. Tie some ribbon and done!
I actually lose a lot of my bookmarks. So I pick them up where ever I can. And I use notecards, receipts, envelops, flyers etc etc :)
I really love this challenge btw :)
Thank you for hosting this challenge!
I usually use a post it since it sticks to the page without damaging it and can’t fall out if I accidentally drop the book. When not using a post it I use magnetic bookmarks.
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I like to use old postcards, it is so nice when I pick up a book again after some time away to find greetings from friends inside. I also use those extra cards that come with tarot decks. And I make my own, no time to make one tonight but posted photo of the one I use tonight in my blog here:
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I love making bookmarks but I use anything like old bills, postcards, photographs. I keep a collection of them on my bookshelf, lately I don’t really make much bookmarks since I receive so many from book depository.
So, one night I went to a concert with my brother. My favorite band was playing so I was really excited. At the end of the show the musicians were throwing things into the audience and my brother caught my favorite guitarist’s pick! Seeing as how my brother is awesome, he gave the pick to me. :p I put it in a protective sleeve and have used it as a bookmark ever since. lol this sounds a little fan-girly now but it is a happy memory. My other favorite bookmark is one my dad brought me from an artist at some home-show or something. It is my name done in an artistic korean calligraphy/art style. Other than that, I usually just use scraps of paper as bookmarks.
I use just about anything I can find for a bookmark to be honest. Currently I am using an old an old book tour press badge on a lanyard. Perfect for marking with the card or the attached string. This one is from author Heather Gudenkauf’s “One Breath Away” Book Tour. Here’s a tweet link with a picture: https://twitter.com/StiletoStrytime/status/257244533681696768
Thanks for the mini-challenge!
Courtney
Stiletto Storytime
I have a rather large bookmark collection so I have plenty to choose from. I have the free ones you pick up in libraries and such, as well as some I’ve made with picture paper, metal ones and the dangly kind…even one that looks like a cat. So no matter what my mood I have a bookmark to compliment it.
Michelle
http://inlibrisveritas.wordpress.com/
I’ve quite a large collection of bookmarks but I have some favourites. :) A British friend of mine sent me about 5 different hand-made ones last year and they have some of my favourite bookish quotes on them – I either use one of these, or my magnetic bookmark. :)
Thanks for this mini-challenge and happy reading!
Vicky x
vicky@booksbiscuitsandtea.co.uk
I own so many beautiful book marks, but do I use them? No! The thing I find most often marking my spot in a book is the outer wrapper to a fast food straw! Light weight and very flat-what could be more perfect?
Thanks for the fun!
*smiles and happy reading*
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I already have a bunch of bookmarks but I never use them. Use whatever I find at hand at that moment. Keycards, vouchers, cards, etc.
~Yel
I’m prone to using ridiculous things as bookmarks, like my tape measure or a random bra strap that happens to be around! I wander around whilst I’m reading and just use whatever I have to hand when I have to stop and do something else!
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I pick up unique bookmarks wherever I find them, but my favorites are the ones I created to promote my blog. Here’s my post about them: http://tdreads.blogspot.com/2012/10/readathon-marking-books-mini-challenge.html
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I use playing cards as my bookmark. My pack is already missing like five cards and it’s practically useless. At least now they have a purpose. Happy reading!
I made a bookmark!
http://shirindoesreadathon.blogspot.com/2012/10/hour-12.html
I have a drawer full of bookmarks. I collect them but I don’t use them. When my sister and I were little we would pull the bookmarks from each others books (and occasionally mum’s book). We both quickly learned to memorise what page we are on. It’s now become a habit
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I actually have 4 I normally use. One with a cat, a leather one with the chinese symbol for wisdom embossed on it, and a trio of four leaf clovers set in between plastic (yeah, they’re real). BUT my favorite bookmark to use, especially while reading horror novels (or zombie novels and I’m doing now) is one that states “Zombies are crap at knitting” So here’s an older pic from my pinterest board with the bookmark!
I still use a bookmark I got in Middle school that encourages reading. Don’t know why I love it so much, but I do. That librarian was the most nurturing person I’ve ever met, so I imagine it’s in memory of her.
Here is my post… http://jennreneeread.blogspot.com/2012/10/24-hour-read-thon-more-mini-challenges.html
I use whatever is within arm’s reach as a bookmark. I have several, and I used to collect them, but more often than not I’m nowhere near a bookmark when I need one.
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I chose option 2 and posted on my blog:
http://allthethingssheread.blogspot.com/2012/10/read-thon-hours-7-12.html
Thanks for hosting this mini challenge! It was a lot of fun too show off my favorite bookmarks!
http://abductedbybooks.blogspot.com/2012/10/abducted-by-half-way-there-readathon.html
I am choosing option 2 and here is my answer on my blog.
http://www.lisasworldofbooks.net/?p=6697
I like to pick up a book whenever I’m at an art museum, but if I can’t find any legit bookmarks, I will use about anything. I don’t like receipts because they are too thin and sticky, and sometimes I can’t find them in the book. Postcards and index cards work well though. I also have a set of loteria cards that I like to use as bookmarks.
My response is on my blog: http:littlemisszombie.blogspot.com.
One of my favorite ways to mark what I’m reading it by cutting the corner off of an envelope. Now and then I write something on them, or let my kids decorate them for me. I just whipped one up for this challenge and I’ll post it on my ongoing updated blog post :) Fun challenge! Thanks!!
http://therelentlessreader.blogspot.com/2012/10/relentless-reader-readathon-updates.html
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