Bright Young Things discussion

How do you mark your place in your books? do you have any precious, sentimental or unusual bookmarks? do they have a story behind them? or do you now read on a tablet and have no use for bookmarks?

Perhaps you can add a photograph of your favourite bookmark...here's the guidance from the goodreads help section:

"If you're trying to add an image that isn't a book cover, you will have to use HTML. The image has to be sourced online, so you will need a URL to the picture you want to add. If the picture is on your computer, and not hosted online, I recommend creating a Photobucket account (where they will provide you with URLs to each photo you upload). As soon as you have this URL, insert it between the quotation marks here:

img src=""

then add a bracket to each end (< and >) and paste that into the text field.

My absolutist favouritist bookmarks in the world ever...





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These were created for an exhibition inspired by (best book evs)....

Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton

Thanks Ally, this is excellent, another great discussion thread on BYTs

http://www.fikr-et.com/41614/512337/n...

I found this site with some amazing inventive ideas for bookmarks to suit the book.

I've thought of a few ideas for bookmarks already.
For Eric Clapton: The Autobiography I thought I'd make a 'Neck of a Fender Strat' as a bookmark.

^ Those bookmarks are genius Greg.

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woohoo...I managed to add a photo (...after a bit of trial and error!!!)

My little book clips are magnetic and come in all sorts of shapes and pictures like the one in the photo.

Nigey B...you're always adding pictures...is there an easier way?

^ No there isn't Ally. Although with images from Flickr there's an option to copy and paste the html code.

I keep the html codes to hand when I'm online and can now format and add images without really thinking much about it - just a question of getting used to doing it.

I love your little magnetic bookmark too Ally. Lovely layout and typography in that book you're reading.

The beautiful typeface is from one of my library books...the map of lost memories...a bit of an adventure story through Khmer history with equally beautiful descriptions of Cambodia...perhaps I ought to have picked something better than a mushroom for my book clip!

My most common bookmarks are the receipts from the library!

However, a few years ago, one of the other groups I am in bought or made bookmarks and everyone got 1 from each person. I have several paper bookmarks, a couple of fabric ones, some magnetic ones like Ally's, and a knit one made to look like Harry Potter's scarf!

Perhaps the BYT would like to do a bookmark swap??

I use post cards, old gift cards, old coupons from Macy's, etc. Pretty much any hardish card I find at hand. Failing that there is still my box, mostly full, of business cards that I no longer need.

I am having some difficulty establishing a Photobucket account. No matter what I do it will not let me. I tried before last year and gave up. Why is it so hard? Any help gratefully accepted.

I usually use my old train tickets! (:

Right now I'm using one that came in the Persephone catalog and one I bought of the 'Vincent VanGogh' of the Tardis blowing up. Pretty much anything laying around it fair game though.

Greg, I think that it won't let you register with an email you've already tried before. Maybe if you setup another email address to link it to it might work.

I joined with Facebook but I regret doing it that way as I can't change my username. To be honest I wasn't overly impressed with photo bucket! I think Nigey said he did it through flickr so that might be an alternative???

I love that this thread has appeared on here it gives me a chance to mention that the best present I've ever been given last christmas was my 50 bookmarks. My partner created them out of our family photo album; pictures of the kids we took and pictures they took, which are just so adorable. He resized some, took cuttings from other and made collages then printed them to look like official bookmarks. One of the best is a series of snaps of my son when he was seven dancing while we were on a walk. It kind of looks like film negatives capturing a rather animated sequence of moves. My partner made it because he kept seeing me use odd things for bookmarks, including coasters and even other books.

On one of my more recent trips to the local library I noticed they had a pile of bookmarks (advertising the library, of course) right at the check out desk. So, of course I took one, even though I was only taking out audio books.

I used X-File ones with tassles on and a Navajo patterned one, not anymore. I had one from a Christmas cracker. Most recently a flyer for a restaurant and a post-it note (folded over to avoid the sticky). Bought a Harley Davidson T-Shirt and the flyers they but in the bag are bookmark shaped...cool.
When I read Road To Wigan Pier I might use the photo of me sat on Wigan Pier, or it that too......
My other half explained to me that the use of the bookmarks could stretch the spines on the books, she folds the corners of books...aarrrggghh, although only on her everyday common books not her precious ones where I dare not venture.

Ally wrote: "Greg, I think that it won't let you register with an email you've already tried before. Maybe if you setup another email address to link it to it might work.

I joined with Facebook but I regret d..."

Thanks Ally, that's very helpful. My instincts told me not to go through Facebook to set up a photobucket account.
I'll get back to Nigeyb and see if flickr is more user friendly.
I'd like to be able to post images of bookmarks I'm making.
Thanks again.

Val wrote: "Michael wrote: "My other half explained to me that the use of the bookmarks could stretch the spines on the books, "
If you used a thick bookmark or pushed it hard into the spine it could, but I th..."

They do stretch it. If you're in a library rare book room doing something like counting signatures and you put in a piece of paper to mark your spot you will get a helluva lecture. More than one bookmark, of course... remember the Herodotus which the English Patient carries around with him as a filing system? My favorite bookmarks are ones I can't use -- they are wooden and too thick.

I'm about to start The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People by Francis Davis, whilst in St Maarten (Dutch Antilles) I bought a T-Shirt from the Hard Rock Café and one of the cardboard labels is in the shape of a guitar plectrum (aka pick), seems quite apt. I must dust off my trusty SG and Marshall amp.

Michael wrote: "I'm about to start The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People by Francis Davis, whilst in St Maarten (Dutch Antilles) I bought a T-Shirt from the Hard Rock Café and on..."

I have that book. I got it at a blues museum in Clarksville, Mississippi. Very readable.

Jan, didn't you point me in that direction.
I can't quite place Clarksville but I drove across Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi to get to Tupelo in the way to Memphis, some 18 years ago...eek tempus fugit.
oops, forgot the word you, I think quicker than I type!! sorry

Some years ago, as a result of reading a Jay McInernie article in Esquire and years of listening to Bob Dylan, I took an impromptu vacation. I jumped in the car, drove to Memphis, went to the museum at the Lorraine Motel, and drove down Highway 61. Traffic was bad. It was a 2-lane road and a truck route. And below Memphis, after you cross into Mississippi there is a casino or two. Further down Hwy 61 is Clarksville, actually just off the highway.

My trip continued to Vicksburg. Toured the battlefield. I'll have to go back once I read Shelby Foote's little book on Vicksburg (and I won't go into how long I've had that book, but I did loan it to someone for a while). Then I drove part of the Natchez Trace - a beautiful ride and made my first visit to Biloxi and Gulf Shores.

But here's a flash. Never drive through Alabama when there is a big race at Taladaga - there wasn't a room to be found in the entire state.

I enjoyed the blues museum at Clarksville too. We went as a family ten years ago. My dad loves blues and Robert Johnson, so we went to the crossroads. :) It was on our trip including Memphis too. We then continued to New Orleans. It was a really neat trip.