# What do you use as bookmarks? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 10, 2010, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167 "2010-11-10T13:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/21 "2010-11-10T15:02:42Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Old lottery tickets, envelopes, **bill litter**. (bolding mine) I heart this phrase. Thank you for introducing us. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/22 "2010-11-10T15:12:14Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Those return mail cards from magazine inserts or junk mail work well. Or a bit of paper ripped off a note. Or a square of toilet paper (if I’m reading in the bathroom, especially!) or Kleenex. This. But I’m fond of using to 3M’s little yellow notes when I’m flying or otherwise traveling long distances. They don’t fall out when I put the book in the seat pocket, throw it in my carry-on luggage or whatever ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/23 "2010-11-10T15:18:52Z")
> [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](#): > > Usually it is the very receipt for the book’s purchase. > > If I already own the book, I grab a business card… ^^^This ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/24 "2010-11-10T15:23:56Z")
I used to use $2 bills for this purpose. As an added bonus, since I would always start many books that I never finished, I would frequently enjoy found money when browsing through my older books. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/25 "2010-11-10T15:24:28Z")
I have heard of a returned library book containing a kipper. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/26 "2010-11-10T15:24:48Z")
3x5 index cards ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/27 "2010-11-10T15:26:21Z")
Random scraps of paper or just remembering where I am or folding the book over. I miss the cool bookmarks I had as a kid. I guess I just got more at the library or bookfairs and today I don’t really have as many. Though I picked up a Curious George one at the library where I volunteer last week. I should start using that… ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/28 "2010-11-10T15:30:56Z")
I use a little card from the salad buffet Sweet Tomatoes. They put these cards out on the table that say, “Be Ripe Back” on one side, and “See You Next Thyme” on the other. I eat there a lot, and have several laying around the house. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/29 "2010-11-10T15:34:47Z")
I use my old business cards. The whole family uses them, actually, so at my house you’ll find little stacks of business cards scattered all over the place - in drawers, on end tables, on bookshelves. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/30 "2010-11-10T15:34:50Z")
> [@C3](#): > > I make little braids out of colorful scraps of yarn. Very cute! Now I’m half tempted to make pretty bookmarks, but you know… lazy.. and stuff… > [@jjimm](#): > > Bacon. Ha ha, I suppose you don’t mind the grease stains. I mainly use whatever scrap is lying around. Currently I’m using a playing card. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/31 "2010-11-10T15:35:13Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Actually, I mostly dogear the pages, unless it’s an antique or someone else’s book. Did I just give the Doper bibliophiles the vapors? Sort of, which is a very good reason Why Not to do it! I normally use any bit of paper that’s handy. For a year, my allowance was 100 pesetas… I never had any money and could not understand where it all was going… until I started re-reading the same books about one year later and finding folded 100 peseta bills inside them, forgotten bookmarks from Saturday mornings spent reading, lying on top of my bed :smack: Mind you: that second year I had no budgetary troubles at all! ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/32 "2010-11-10T15:39:57Z")
Do you remember a post card exchange that we had here five or six years ago? Almost all of mine went into various books, so when I reread one, I find it and it gets migrated to the next book. Also, pull out cards from magazines, business cards, and old deer tags. I like sturdier paper, but I’ll use an old receipt if I have to. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/33 "2010-11-10T15:46:05Z")
nothing thicker than a piece of paper, make it long to stick out of top and bottom so its always visible. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/34 "2010-11-10T15:46:47Z")
> [@Athena](#): > > I’ve actually been getting better at using “real” bookmarks, in the sense of free bookmarks given out by bookstores or other places. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology sends me a pretty bookmark with a bird on it about once a month, with a letter asking for donations. So: hint to readers, want a free bookmark? Buy something from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, you’ll get bookmarks for life. . . I bought some stuff from the folks who make the Munchkin games and it came with a bookmark that was not only free, it could be used in any of the Munchkin games as an extra card to play. I don’t use it as a bookmark, though, because I don’t want to lose it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/35 "2010-11-10T15:54:11Z")
Unless you’re leafing through the Book of Kells, what’s wrong with just folding the corner of the page over? That’s what I do. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/36 "2010-11-10T16:08:32Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I use a little card from the salad buffet Sweet Tomatoes. They put these cards out on the table that say, “Be Ripe Back” on one side, and “See You Next Thyme” on the other. > > I eat there a lot, and have several laying around the house. I hate you. OK, no I don’t, but the other diners at Sweet Tomatoes hate \*\*me \*\*when I steal their Be Ripe Back cards off their table to go back to the salad bar because you’ve taken the one off my table home with you. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/37 "2010-11-10T16:10:02Z")
Oh, I’m also using receipts a lot these days. That is, the receipts from the library stating the due date of a book. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/38 "2010-11-10T16:11:22Z")
> [@Rebo](#): > > I use a little card from the salad buffet Sweet Tomatoes. They put these cards out on the table that say, “Be Ripe Back” on one side, and “See You Next Thyme” on the other. Blimey, you’ve a stronger stomach than mine if you can hold your food down with that kind of tweeness right there on the table. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/39 "2010-11-10T16:11:57Z")
For library books, I use the due date slip. For other books, I have a $2 bill I tend to use as a bookmark. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167/40 "2010-11-10T16:42:47Z")
I have a bookmark-shaped ad card from Chipotle promoting their fax-in order service. Two strange things about it: 1. I don’t know where I got it because we never eat there. 2. I’ve had this same bookmark for several years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-use-as-bookmarks/560167.md?page=3)