For reference books, of course, I'm not reading them sequentially. And if I'm going to a book to look up something specific, the where I was last isn't an issue. But if I'm going to a book with which I have some familiarity, looking for something I've read before, I can usually find it fairly swiftly, even in a novel. It's harder if I've only read it once, harder still if it's a long time ago.
In the case of a novel I'm reading for the first time, I can flick through it fairly quickly, fast-forwarding past the bits I've already read, until I get to the page I need. That technique works less well with books I've read several times.
A number of people have multiple novels on the go at once, but I tend only to read one at a time. I don't know whether this technique would scale to multiple simultaneous "new" books.
If I'm interrupting my reading briefly -- to change trains, say, or to answer the phone -- then I'll remember the page number for half an hour or so. If it's longer than that, I'll have to fast-forward as above.
I would really enjoy the gift, and would use it when reading special books. But, because "I have bookmarks in at least half a dozen books at any given time", I wouldn't actually use it all the time.
I use random paper (damage a book? Sacriledge!), and none of the second poll applies, because honestly, an embroidered bookmark doesn't appeal. Too thick. And I probably won't pass it on. I might say "Bah, humbug," too.
Yes, I'd agree about embroidered bookmarks being too thick. Cardboard and paper are better because they fit in the book better. But my favourite kind of bookmark is a butterfly clip with a tail, like this:
I used to remember page numbers but I've got much less good at it, so now I use bookmarks. I use postcards as well as bookmarks though, so I don't know whether you'd count that as a bookmark or scrap paper.
For the last few years I've used the same few bits of scrap paper as bookmarks. One is even from The Bloke who had been using that one for many years before.
I love receiving an appropriate, well thought out gift of a bookmark. I think I've only ever used two of them but would never pass it on as if unwanted.
I tend to have one bookmark, or at most two, in a book at any one time. Unlike some others, it would take me at least 5 minutes to find the right place, so a bookmark is less effort. OTOH I don't read more than two books at once or it takes me too long to read them.
If I was given a bookmark, I'd use it, but "really enjoy" it, no - I'm male :)
Corners ripped from old envelopes here... when given a bookmark (especially handmade) I always put it safe where it won't get damaged. And do you think I can ever find it again????
No, they're shaped like bookmarks, but with small weights on each end - you lay them across the open pages and it hold the book open without damaging the spine. I got given a leather one years ago, found it invaluable and collected quite a few others over the years.
Depends on the book. A basic paperback I will dog ear and use the point of the corner to show exactly where I had got too. A nice shiny hardback, I tend to bookmark. And thus variations in between.
I don't think I can select any of the poll options. I normally have one (at most two) books in progress at one time. I have two nice leather bookmarks which I use for this.
I used to be a dog-earer and spine-bender, but I reformed many years ago (around the time I stopped borrowing library books and started buying my own). I also used to remember the page number I was up to - I have a pretty good memory for numbers, so this worked quite well for me.
Books are meant to be read. Dog ears are proof that someone has at least started to read a book. Coffee stains, choccy finger marks, cigarette burns etc are likewise proof of being readness. I don't care what state my books are in so long as the words are still legible.
Other people's books I treat with considerably more respect, though.
I keep a pile of bookmarks on the bedside table, and also in the study. maybe forty or fifty are in use at any one time.
Thesis books are marked with dozens of Identity Systems post-it notes. My memory is such that I can remember quotes, and even whereabouts on the page they were, but not the page number.
My book marking is a mix, novels I remember the pages (sometimes it's fifth page in Chapter 28 plus a starting phrase e.g @That's a miracle in itself, worth a vaida to see' than page 470). I use bookmarks of the torm receipt/ After Eight wrapper on occasion. Seldom use fancy bookmarks of the leather/ embroidered persuasion as I have been known to leave them in place for years! and I don't think it does the spine any good.
Text or reference works tend to get little yellow post-it note (folded so that the gum doesn't stick to the paper)
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I can do that to some extent with reference books, but never with a novel.
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In the case of a novel I'm reading for the first time, I can flick through it fairly quickly, fast-forwarding past the bits I've already read, until I get to the page I need. That technique works less well with books I've read several times.
A number of people have multiple novels on the go at once, but I tend only to read one at a time. I don't know whether this technique would scale to multiple simultaneous "new" books.
If I'm interrupting my reading briefly -- to change trains, say, or to answer the phone -- then I'll remember the page number for half an hour or so. If it's longer than that, I'll have to fast-forward as above.
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I can't even remember the book I'm reading half the time :(
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Gawd, I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that.
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For the last few years I've used the same few bits of scrap paper as bookmarks. One is even from The Bloke who had been using that one for many years before.
I love receiving an appropriate, well thought out gift of a bookmark. I think I've only ever used two of them but would never pass it on as if unwanted.
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I tend to have one bookmark, or at most two, in a book at any one time. Unlike some others, it would take me at least 5 minutes to find the right place, so a bookmark is less effort. OTOH I don't read more than two books at once or it takes me too long to read them.
If I was given a bookmark, I'd use it, but "really enjoy" it, no - I'm male :)
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Now book weights I use. Yes.
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Or do you mean books used as weights to hold things down?
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I used to be a dog-earer and spine-bender, but I reformed many years ago (around the time I stopped borrowing library books and started buying my own).
I also used to remember the page number I was up to - I have a pretty good memory for numbers, so this worked quite well for me.
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Other people's books I treat with considerably more respect, though.
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1) I have a bookmark and I use it.
2) I'd put it in the "presents I don't use" drawer, whose contents already includes another excessively large and ornate bookmark, as a spare.
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Thesis books are marked with dozens of Identity Systems post-it notes. My memory is such that I can remember quotes, and even whereabouts on the page they were, but not the page number.
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Text or reference works tend to get little yellow post-it note (folded so that the gum doesn't stick to the paper)