Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Secret Lives of Bookmarks


Book Riot celebrates the lowly bookmark.

From the piece...

I don’t know how attached people are to their bookmarks. Perhaps this post will reveal that I’m not alone in having a monogamous relationship with a piece of cardboard. Or it will confirm my fear that it’s frankly a bit weird, and now you mention it, what’s wrong with folding the corner of the page? Or a Kindle?

You can tell a lot about someone from their bookmarks. For the reader, they perform a vital role. They are guardians standing in the way of threads being lost, plot points missed. They are a fixed point, a sliver of paper lingering in the gulf between what went before and what is yet to come, like some Dickensian ghost. It is not a job to be given lightly, so we choose our bookmarks wisely.

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