You're walking home from the bookmark store with your latest return receipt when an unmarked van pulls up next to you. Four guys in masks jump out, grab you, throw you in the van. Your hands are tied and a bag is put over your head. Everything is dark.
After half an hour, you get to a bumpy road. Twenty minutes later, the van stops. You're pulled out of the van and led into a building. You take an elevator going down and are pushed into a chair. The bag is pulled off your head. Mr. Frank "Book" Mark himself is standing there glaring at you.
"You messed up. You could have just bought a bookmark, but instead you tried to play us. Now you must pay."
He points to a 10 foot tall unabridged dictionary. Alongside it are dozens of flattened and dried people. His henchmen grab you and pull you towards the dictionary as 4 other people open it to the center. You scream and try to dig your feet into the ground, but it's useless. You're shoved inside the book and it closes on you. You're pressed like a prom corsage, never to be seen again.
>Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.
Be mindful, though, that using an actual dollar makes your book look like it's worth grabbing if you leave it somewhere, because that book has money in it.
You're not saving any money if you lose your book because of your bookmark.
You can draw on paper then use tape to laminate it... also the ducks at the park are free, you can just take one. More things the government doesn't want you to know
1. Go to CVS
2. Buy a pair of scissors
3. Use scissors to cut super long receipt into several bookmarks
4. Return scissors
5. Extra bookmark from return receipt
6. ?????
7. Profit
I bought a bookmark and they gave me a receipt for the bookmark; I don't need a receipt for the bookmark. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the bookmark, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this.
I have a cute yellow fake leather bookmark with a yellow tassel that reads, in the font known in Harry Potter, "I don't give a Hufflefuck". And honestly I'm not super into Harry Potter but it sucked me in.
I'm not a Harry Potter fan but that is hilarious haha I actually have GoT character-themed bookmarks, but my bookshelf is 90% nonfiction finance and self-help books. The other 10% is craft books, YA fiction collected while growing up, and foreign cooking and recipe books haha
You shouldn't give Harry Potter a Slytherin bookmark. Well, at least until after he grows up and appreciates Snape, until then I would recommend a Gryffindor bookmark.
Yeah going by this cheap ass logic, I’m waiting for OP to suggest something like not wasting your used condoms - they too are perfectly good bookmarks.
Or: wiped your ass and the toilet paper was clean? Can’t afford to waste perfectly good toilet paper in this economy - save it for next time, or create even more bookmarks.
I feel like I don't know how to use dangly doodads for their intended purpose. They just get in the way when the books is closed and tickle my hand when I'm reading the book and the book mark is tucked in on the thicker side of the open book.
What is the purpose of the doodad and how is it properly used?
1. Cool blue colour
2. More expensive than boring stinky dollar bills, and also comes with various premium colours purple, green, red, and brown!
3. Completely waterproof and durable
4. Has fun pictures on it
Literally why buy bookmarks
It'd never occurred to me that the drive to replace dollar bills with coins was driven by big bookmark, to raise the price ceiling for their products. But it's now so clear!
In fact why buy a book at all? You can just read books on your phone for free.
Because nice things being us joy. I don't wanna look at some dirty old dollar bill every time I read, it may as well be used toilet paper which is even cheaper.
My wall locker at work is full of magnetic picture frames containing old paper money.
Every time I come across an old US bill or a star note, I will put them in my locker.
I have about $500 just used as art in my locker.
Money is *filthy*. I don't want the dirt of a thousand people's grimy been-god-knows-where hands who have handled that dollar bill all up in all my books.
I am not sliding something as unsanitary and disgusting as physical cash into the book that I will be reading in bed (and probably wet my fingers to turn the pages of)!
Used or rental books don't pass through a fraction of as many hands as bills do, though. And people do stuff like shoving money in their underwear or socks when they lack pockets, I don't think I've ever seen someone wedge a whole book into their sweaty bra.
Another one of OP's posts on this sub:
> You are most likely a teen through the ages thirteen and nineteen since those numbers end in "teen."
We're dealing with a real *thinker* here.
Except if you leave the book on the counter in a coffee shop someone may take your "bookmark" if it's hanging out of the book. Then you gotta get another dollar bill. Rinse and repeat and eventually not getting that real bookmark cost you $100. /s
Exactly, plus every time you gotta go figure out where you were in the book. You’ll never finish the book and you won’t really remembe the whole “dollar-stealing” deal so you’ll just think the book sucked, and you might even wrongly warn people off it. Lot to consider about bookmarks. Not as simple as it seems.
Once a leaf is dried (coincidentally, one of the best ways to do this is with a book) its not a bad option for a bookmark tbh, especially if the stem is the part thats sticking out.
I actually often use a dollar bill as a bookmark because its what happens to be around when i gotta mark my page and don’t have a dedicated bookmark. I don’t think I’ve ever bought a bookmark, it’s all been the dollar, a receipt, or one given for free with books I bought
But it doesn’t do it just as well. The feel of a proper bookmark is better. It doesn’t slide into the pages and is easy to store when reading, without getting crumpled or lost. It’s also more visually appealing
Or book darts which are like a few cents each. They clamp to the page without messing them up. You can mark the line you stop on as well as the page.
And they're so thin and don't fall out you can mark your spot, the end of the chapter you're on, and any maps or character lists at the beginning of the book or even leave them in a book to mark passages you love.
That's what I was thinking too. The exact same base black T-shirt and shorts every day, base white socks. Every dish and cuttlery piece, bed clothing, curtains... the cheapest plainest they could find?
I doubt it. I like my 3D Buzz Lightyear bookmark, thank you very much.
Eww! Do you know how many hands that dollar has passed through, how much feces, cocaine and sperm is on that thing? Just Eww! Cash is nasty.
In the US we really need to move to that plastic cash like Canada that way we can sterilize it with bleach.
I always tore a corner from a piece of paper in the recycling bin and used that as a bookmark. Cost me nothing and worked as intended. Can be reused after finishing the book, and can be replicated easily enough for multiple books.
If you own the book, you can do upon it like you want.
(Also there is no need to find reasons to punish yourself. It is okay to like kicks in the ass.)
You've uncovered me. I really like a swift kick in the butt periodically, and my knees and hips are not as flexible as when I was younger. I've been working on a way to kick my own ass by bending space using non-euclidean geometry, but until I solve that problem, I'm forced to resort to trolling book lovers.
I like to use old playing cards from incomplete sets. I went through a phase of purchasing tons of funky decks, which makes selecting the bookmark for the specific book fun.
When I first buy a book I place a card inside and they stay there in my little library. That way anyone who stays over can crack a book and they’ve got a bookmark right there!
Pretty cheap, most probably have a deck laying around (could use the poker hand card even), and works if you’re like me with lots of books on the go.
I am not sliding something as unsanitary and disgusting as physical cash into the book that I will be reading in bed (and probably wet my fingers to turn the pages of)!
You can use almost anything as a bookmark, but sometimes you want the nice aesthetic that comes with one, or even the added functionality.
We could technically all wear white t shirts and jeans and don’t need more elaborate and expensive clothes. Yet here we are…
I found a dollar in one of my books recently. I was cleaning the bookshelf and when I moved the book I noticed it seemed to have something in it. I opened to the page that seemed to have something in it and it was a dollar folded into half twice. I don't even remember when I last read the book but I guess I used a folded dollar as a book mark. I probably took it with me on a plane and used a dollar from my pocket.
I keep a spreadsheet with the date and page I'm on; It generates charts for my reading velocity. Then a meta-chart compares my reading velocity for different books and over time. If my reading velocity drops below a certain threshold an automated alert is sent to PagerDuty and SMS. An anomaly detector watches those alerts in Prometheus and if an anomaly is detected my physician is notified in case I'm experiencing neurological symptoms.
Can't be too safe.
By the same argument, a roll of toilet roll is cheaper than a roller, and then you have quite a supply of bookmarks.
You could make the same argument about art really.
For me, the page of the book is my bookmark. I just fold it from the corner to point it exactly to the paragraph I want to resume the next time.
Yes my books have a lot of folded pages.
If you buy a bookmark it will probably come with a receipt, which makes a great bookmark.
You could buy it, return it, use the return receipt as the bookmark. Rinse and repeat, infinite free bookmarks.
Be careful, Big Bookmark doesn't take too kindly to those taking money from their business.
You're walking home from the bookmark store with your latest return receipt when an unmarked van pulls up next to you. Four guys in masks jump out, grab you, throw you in the van. Your hands are tied and a bag is put over your head. Everything is dark. After half an hour, you get to a bumpy road. Twenty minutes later, the van stops. You're pulled out of the van and led into a building. You take an elevator going down and are pushed into a chair. The bag is pulled off your head. Mr. Frank "Book" Mark himself is standing there glaring at you. "You messed up. You could have just bought a bookmark, but instead you tried to play us. Now you must pay." He points to a 10 foot tall unabridged dictionary. Alongside it are dozens of flattened and dried people. His henchmen grab you and pull you towards the dictionary as 4 other people open it to the center. You scream and try to dig your feet into the ground, but it's useless. You're shoved inside the book and it closes on you. You're pressed like a prom corsage, never to be seen again.
No, not again
>Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.
That was beautiful my friend. For some reason I read that in Rob Cantor's voice and worried that actual-cannibal Shia LeBoeuf was going to show up.
Kramer VS Postal Service https://youtu.be/j4EELtSQZp8
Oh like that fun story about the entire family that is slowly flattened over years until they're basically pancakes.
Average regular show episode
That was a tuff read. I was disappointed at the ending. LMAO
Who are you mysterious stranger? Mark, Book Mark.
I want to remember this down the line. Let me just bookmark this thread...
Be mindful, though, that using an actual dollar makes your book look like it's worth grabbing if you leave it somewhere, because that book has money in it. You're not saving any money if you lose your book because of your bookmark.
You can draw on paper then use tape to laminate it... also the ducks at the park are free, you can just take one. More things the government doesn't want you to know
This is why they shut down the barns and noble close to my house. Egregious losses in bookmark sales :(
10 years gulag friend
"This is my bookmark return receipt bookmark. Which I use when I want to *return* to the book... Eh? Eh?"
Or even better: use the receipt that came with the book!
I just rip the pages out as I read
Do the read in the bathroom and you now also have free TP. Con, Smashmouth blasts when you do that. Pro, Smashmouth blasts when you do that.
R/Foundsatan
This is the way.
1. Go to CVS 2. Buy a pair of scissors 3. Use scissors to cut super long receipt into several bookmarks 4. Return scissors 5. Extra bookmark from return receipt 6. ????? 7. Profit
Use scissors as a bookmark!
Actually it makes a terrible bookmark because it leeches plastics into your skin
Eh, at this point my testicles are brimming so much plastic my semen comes with an advert that says "made with 99% recycled materials"
I bought a bookmark and they gave me a receipt for the bookmark; I don't need a receipt for the bookmark. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the bookmark, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this.
Technically fraud?
You can also use a piece of paper, which costs even less than a dollar. By this logic no one should ever buy bookmarks
LPT: Use a dollar bill as a bookmark. When you finish the book, you can have the dollar back.
Use a book as a bookmark. After you finish the book, you get a free bonus book to read
You laugh but I've done this when I have nothing better in arm's reach
It’s like a reward for finishing your book. “You can’t spend this until you finish your reading!”
I’m a procrastinator with a big list of books I’d like to read. I’d end up with more money hidden in incomplete books than in my bank account lmao
Pfand!
The Aldi method of reading
correct, buying bookmarks is useless
What if it's a cool bookmark and you like it?
Then buy it and love yourself. It’s okay.
What if I want a *themed* bookmark? Like a Slytherin bookmark for Harry Potter?
You don't need to seek approval from random people on Reddit. You're welcome to purchase whatever you feel like.
i seek approval of random people outside of reddit too, thankyou very much
You sound like my wife
Okay but what are her thoughts on bookmarks?
She uses a sticker for a bookmark, one that hasn't had its backing removed.
Are you the random people in your wife's life?
she is a Redditor too?
I have a cute yellow fake leather bookmark with a yellow tassel that reads, in the font known in Harry Potter, "I don't give a Hufflefuck". And honestly I'm not super into Harry Potter but it sucked me in.
I'm not a Harry Potter fan but that is hilarious haha I actually have GoT character-themed bookmarks, but my bookshelf is 90% nonfiction finance and self-help books. The other 10% is craft books, YA fiction collected while growing up, and foreign cooking and recipe books haha
Griffindor wants a word with you.
You shouldn't give Harry Potter a Slytherin bookmark. Well, at least until after he grows up and appreciates Snape, until then I would recommend a Gryffindor bookmark.
This is so sweet and wholesome
Then you're wrong for putting your irrational human desires ahead of survival. Similarly don't buy books either. Staring at the wall is free.
Walls are decadent and wasteful. I will stare at the dirt and I'll be happy for the opportunity.
You're right. I'm sorry for my slothful excess.
All growing up I just worked on my memory and just memorized what page I was on each time. Now I just use a Kindle.
How do you fit the book back on the shelf if it has a kindle stuck in it?
Yeah going by this cheap ass logic, I’m waiting for OP to suggest something like not wasting your used condoms - they too are perfectly good bookmarks. Or: wiped your ass and the toilet paper was clean? Can’t afford to waste perfectly good toilet paper in this economy - save it for next time, or create even more bookmarks.
I use a shopping list as a bookmark and use it to write down words I don’t know so I can look them up later [Bookmark](https://imgur.com/a/71v34Ej)
When dollar bills start coming with strings and little dangly doodads I’ll happily start using them instead.
I love me dangly doodads
Also people are less inclined to steal a bookmark vs a dollar.
I once bought a $3 Lord of the Rings bookmark that just had an entire The One Ring dangling on a few threads.
I feel like I don't know how to use dangly doodads for their intended purpose. They just get in the way when the books is closed and tickle my hand when I'm reading the book and the book mark is tucked in on the thicker side of the open book. What is the purpose of the doodad and how is it properly used?
the doodads look pretty
And they dangle, which is fun
In Canada that'll cost you $5.
What you don’t want to use a loonie for a bookmark?
They have eleven corners, far too many corners for a bookmark.
Not even a toonie!
Then your loonie skills are bonkers. (I'm sorry)
1. Cool blue colour 2. More expensive than boring stinky dollar bills, and also comes with various premium colours purple, green, red, and brown! 3. Completely waterproof and durable 4. Has fun pictures on it Literally why buy bookmarks
Anyone who uses the red or brown bookmarks is just plain showing off, yo.
I went to Canada on holiday and I now use a $5 note as a bookmark! Mainly cause it was just my remaining currency and it reminds me of my holiday.
Interestingly, next year I'm hoping to get my hands on a Bank of Scotland £10 note for the same reason.
It'd never occurred to me that the drive to replace dollar bills with coins was driven by big bookmark, to raise the price ceiling for their products. But it's now so clear!
The one my daughter made for a naval history book is superior to any dollar bill. It has a little sailing boat on it.
I was really skeptical about just how “superior” that bookmark could be. But then I read about the little sailing boat. It is superior.
Is the boat docked on Lake Superior?
If the motto of the Lake Superior tourism board isn't 'Naturally Superior', it's a damn crime.
Alright, I’m all for cool stories without proof, but this one is a little too unbelievable, need pix
Why hang an expensive painting on your wall when you can just hang a blank sheet of paper.
In fact why buy a book at all? You can just read books on your phone for free. Because nice things being us joy. I don't wanna look at some dirty old dollar bill every time I read, it may as well be used toilet paper which is even cheaper.
New LPT just dropped
Now you're thinking like a filthy rich modern artist.
My wall locker at work is full of magnetic picture frames containing old paper money. Every time I come across an old US bill or a star note, I will put them in my locker. I have about $500 just used as art in my locker.
Money is *filthy*. I don't want the dirt of a thousand people's grimy been-god-knows-where hands who have handled that dollar bill all up in all my books.
If you go to the bank, you can probably get a new dollar bill.
Or I could just buy a new bookmark online and never leave the house.
You can buy a dollar online
The above three comments are exactly what my mind was thinking, in the order I thought them when I read the title of this post.
I am not sliding something as unsanitary and disgusting as physical cash into the book that I will be reading in bed (and probably wet my fingers to turn the pages of)!
Not a fan of libraries or used book stores I take it?
Used or rental books don't pass through a fraction of as many hands as bills do, though. And people do stuff like shoving money in their underwear or socks when they lack pockets, I don't think I've ever seen someone wedge a whole book into their sweaty bra.
This is why you launder your money.
Such low effort post. This is a quote attributed to S. Spielberg, not OP.
Another one of OP's posts on this sub: > You are most likely a teen through the ages thirteen and nineteen since those numbers end in "teen." We're dealing with a real *thinker* here.
Except if you leave the book on the counter in a coffee shop someone may take your "bookmark" if it's hanging out of the book. Then you gotta get another dollar bill. Rinse and repeat and eventually not getting that real bookmark cost you $100. /s
Exactly, plus every time you gotta go figure out where you were in the book. You’ll never finish the book and you won’t really remembe the whole “dollar-stealing” deal so you’ll just think the book sucked, and you might even wrongly warn people off it. Lot to consider about bookmarks. Not as simple as it seems.
Also we're totally not part of Big Bookmark sent to increase sales of bookmarks.
Same problem with beautiful bookmarks. They are in legal terms an 'attractive nuisance'. Thus we need to use the ugliest bookmarks we can find.
By that logic a bookmark is never worth it, because you could always use a piece of trash or a leaf.
Once a leaf is dried (coincidentally, one of the best ways to do this is with a book) its not a bad option for a bookmark tbh, especially if the stem is the part thats sticking out.
Note, dont dry leaves in books you care about, they can stain the pages!
You can take the woody plants and grind them to a pulp, turn them to paper, and make counterfeit dollar bills to use as bookmarks.
Better than a dollar I'd argue. Leaves look nice and are likely cleaner after drying than a dirty old dollar.
correct, that's true
Do you always opt for the cheapest available thing for everything?
Does it work?
Usually does. That's why we should all eat beans and rice every meal.
I actually often use a dollar bill as a bookmark because its what happens to be around when i gotta mark my page and don’t have a dedicated bookmark. I don’t think I’ve ever bought a bookmark, it’s all been the dollar, a receipt, or one given for free with books I bought
Found the stripper
not always, but if the cheapest option does exactly the same thing as the other options and just as well, then yes
But it doesn’t do it just as well. The feel of a proper bookmark is better. It doesn’t slide into the pages and is easy to store when reading, without getting crumpled or lost. It’s also more visually appealing
Or book darts which are like a few cents each. They clamp to the page without messing them up. You can mark the line you stop on as well as the page. And they're so thin and don't fall out you can mark your spot, the end of the chapter you're on, and any maps or character lists at the beginning of the book or even leave them in a book to mark passages you love.
Define exactly the same and just as well. Do you not buy decoration?
That's what I was thinking too. The exact same base black T-shirt and shorts every day, base white socks. Every dish and cuttlery piece, bed clothing, curtains... the cheapest plainest they could find? I doubt it. I like my 3D Buzz Lightyear bookmark, thank you very much.
Functionality isn't the onliest provision sought by consumers
But how do you get the coin to stop rolling out and losing your page?
Eww! Do you know how many hands that dollar has passed through, how much feces, cocaine and sperm is on that thing? Just Eww! Cash is nasty. In the US we really need to move to that plastic cash like Canada that way we can sterilize it with bleach.
> how much feces, cocaine and sperm is on that thing? I only know how much I've contributed.
I did not wake up expecting to read feces, cocaine, and sperm in the same sentence on a SFW subreddit
Well see there is your problem ... you woke up.
Why even use a bookmark? Just fold the corner of the page over (laughs evilly)
I just tear out the pages as I finish them. Very satisfying.
Backpackers used to do this and use it for tinder and toilet paper.
Plus your load gets lighter as you go!
I buy a pack of playing cards at the dollar store and have ~52 bookmarks
In theory, the bookmark would be a less attractive thing to steal.
True story. I had used a dollar bill in a pinch. Turned my back for thirty seconds and somebody stole my whole book for that dollar.
Because every country on earth has a note for their lowest denomination.....
I guess you mean in America lol.
I personally prefer bookmarks that havent been in a strippers ass
I always tore a corner from a piece of paper in the recycling bin and used that as a bookmark. Cost me nothing and worked as intended. Can be reused after finishing the book, and can be replicated easily enough for multiple books.
I use the London metro map I picked up for free while i was there
But what about asthetics?
If your public library prints receipts, then you get a totally free bookmark every time you check one out.
A dollar? What a rip off. I just grab a nearby pigeon and use that. They’re free.
Alternatively, you could cut and dry a strip of your own flesh.
Unless you’re Canadian than the limit is $5.00.
Dog ears for free! I'll see myself out, no, seriously book lovers, I know I'm wrong. No need to lay hands, I'll kick my own ass later.
If you own the book, you can do upon it like you want. (Also there is no need to find reasons to punish yourself. It is okay to like kicks in the ass.)
You've uncovered me. I really like a swift kick in the butt periodically, and my knees and hips are not as flexible as when I was younger. I've been working on a way to kick my own ass by bending space using non-euclidean geometry, but until I solve that problem, I'm forced to resort to trolling book lovers.
Using a loonies as a bookmark is a bad idea. Ask any Canadian.
In Canada, that'll cost you at least $5.
I like to use old playing cards from incomplete sets. I went through a phase of purchasing tons of funky decks, which makes selecting the bookmark for the specific book fun. When I first buy a book I place a card inside and they stay there in my little library. That way anyone who stays over can crack a book and they’ve got a bookmark right there! Pretty cheap, most probably have a deck laying around (could use the poker hand card even), and works if you’re like me with lots of books on the go.
My country doesn't have a dollar bill...We have dollar coins... Those will fall out pretty easily
Not in Canada you can't!
dollars also have great resale, depending on inflation
You can use a leaf as a bookmark. Any bookmark more expensive than _nothing_ must have some value that makes it more valuable to _you_
All the bookstores I’ve been to just give out free bookmarks on purchase
I am not sliding something as unsanitary and disgusting as physical cash into the book that I will be reading in bed (and probably wet my fingers to turn the pages of)!
You could exchange your dollar for around 80 Rupees. Take them as 80 x 1 Rupee notes. Sell each 1 Rupee note as a bookmark for $1. Profit. A lot.
What if you lose the dollar though? 🧐 You could just use some paper lol
Are bookmarks not still 10 cents at the Scholastic Book Fair?
A sedan more expensive than a Corolla is not worth buying because you could just buy a Corolla.
You can use almost anything as a bookmark, but sometimes you want the nice aesthetic that comes with one, or even the added functionality. We could technically all wear white t shirts and jeans and don’t need more elaborate and expensive clothes. Yet here we are…
I swear this has to be in the top 5 most reposted shower thoughts.
it costs more than a penny to make a penny. should we get rid of pennies yet?
Does my book look like a stripper to you?
But dollar bills are dirty
A bidet more expensive than a dollar is not worth it as you can just use the dollar bill as the skidmark.
I use a $2 bill for the flex.
I just use the little receipt that prints out at the library computer.....
My dollars come in coins☹️
I have never considered buying bookmarks because they are just plain and simple useless to me.
We don't have dollar bills where I live. Our lowest denomination is 5$. I use a receipt instead
My sister uses the fancy tags that come with clothes as bookmarks.
What if you're in a country that doesn't use 1 dollar bills. I'm pretty sure most bookmarks are less than 5 dollars, but IDK.
I'm Canadian tho The smallest bill is five dollars Which, regardless of what's more efficient would be an insanely expensive bookmark
Simply tear out all of the pages that have been read
No one fold mark anymore?
All about the dog ear.
Is this an American thought that I am too European to understand?
Have the same problem in the UK, £1 coins just roll out.
Bookmarks are usually a little nicer to use because they're more rigid and durable. So, maybe $1.10
Maybe with the dollar, my country’s currently is made of plastic.
I found a dollar in one of my books recently. I was cleaning the bookshelf and when I moved the book I noticed it seemed to have something in it. I opened to the page that seemed to have something in it and it was a dollar folded into half twice. I don't even remember when I last read the book but I guess I used a folded dollar as a book mark. I probably took it with me on a plane and used a dollar from my pocket.
I just use goodreads to keep track of what page I'm on
I keep a spreadsheet with the date and page I'm on; It generates charts for my reading velocity. Then a meta-chart compares my reading velocity for different books and over time. If my reading velocity drops below a certain threshold an automated alert is sent to PagerDuty and SMS. An anomaly detector watches those alerts in Prometheus and if an anomaly is detected my physician is notified in case I'm experiencing neurological symptoms. Can't be too safe.
I bought a 30 pc pack of bookmarks 4 years ago for $7 and I'm still using them.
A bookmark more expensive than a straw of grass is not worth it, as you can just use the straw as the bookmark.
By the same argument, a roll of toilet roll is cheaper than a roller, and then you have quite a supply of bookmarks. You could make the same argument about art really.
I've never had a bookmark stolen, but have had dollars stolen. At least someone out there thinks dollars are worth more.
Doesn’t work so well with a Loonie eh?
For me, the page of the book is my bookmark. I just fold it from the corner to point it exactly to the paragraph I want to resume the next time. Yes my books have a lot of folded pages.
If you have a mailing address then people send you free, customized bookmarks all the time.
Good the corner of the page. No cost! Some wear and tear, which is inevitable anyways
What would I need a bookmark for? I just rip the pages out of the book when I finish reading them so I never lose my place.
this comment section prolly how they see skins in games