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Is it a bookmark in the story or a physical bookmark in the book that you are dealing with, Jan? ;)

Sorry, this was a real life actual physical thing that I found in the book as I was reading it!

There used to be a site for posting things found in books!
I think the most interesting thing I've found was where someone had made paper-dolls of the characters.

Mir wrote: "There used to be a site for posting things found in books!
I think the most interesting thing I've found was where someone had made paper-dolls of the characters."

Wow, what a fantastic way to interact with a book! I realise i am much to boring as a reader. I mostly just leave hairs between the pages or a tiny splatter of some drink or other :(

My best trove yet was the blue sticker of a now extinct bookstore in Nantes, in my battered copy of La peste! I also relish in notes left in the margins and the last blank pages! And you? :)

P.E. wrote: "My best trove yet was the blue sticker of a now extinct bookstore in Nantes, in my battered copy of La peste! I also relish in notes left in the margins and the last blank pages! And ..."

I found a receipe for soda bread in the back of a book about exploration which featured hungry sailors eating seabirds. I had a book on spanish hapsburg history that had so msny parsgraghs highlighted with green marker pen that the whole thing virtually glowed in the dark. Oh i found a book in Brussels which had a christmas card from an auction house in Dublin in it.

How convenient! I love how the first one is in accordance with the issue at hand! The fluorescent Habsburg history book made me chuckle a little :D

How nice, Jan-M. It is simply lovely to find a bookmark in a book. I once even found a hand embroidered one. Which I don’t use because it is so thick and elaborate.

Lovely find Hanneke! What was the embroidery like? Was it representing something? :)

Pierre-E, it is red velvet with a blue saxophone player embroidered on it, who is pumping out floating golden notes, drifting up. It has the letters TS enbroidered in dark blue on top. I hope someone did not regret losing it!
I’ll write you soon!

Wow, definitely a keeper Hanneke! Lovely catch! :o

Hanneke wrote: "Pierre-E, it is red velvet with a blue saxophone player embroidered on it, who is pumping out floating golden notes, drifting up. It has the letters TS enbroidered in dark blue on top. I hope someo..."

It does not sound like the kind of thing that one might lose by accident, so i doubt the person regretted it!

Yes, could be, Jan-M. Very strange to find it because it is also not of a small size. I definitely do not want to use it, too thick and big. It is having a prime spot on top of my bookmarks pile.

Hanneke wrote: "Yes, could be, Jan-M. Very strange to find it because it is also not of a small size. I definitely do not want to use it, too thick and big. It is having a prime spot on top of my bookmarks pile."
You have a pile of books to read and a pile of bookmarks to use?

Certsinly a nice trophy to keep, like a lucky coin

Jan-M, yes, regretfully, I have big piles of books to read and perhaps some fifty bookmarks. I always use a bookmark when reading. You too?

Hanneke wrote: "Jan-M, yes, regretfully, I have big piles of books to read and perhaps some fifty bookmarks. I always use a bookmark when reading. You too?"

No. I am a fan of using anything, an envelope, postcards, folding a page over, a bit of paper that is nearby.

But I admit that many bookmarks are very pretty and extremely collectable

Jan-M, all the bookmarks I got through the years were mostly free gifts from bookstores or came with a postal book order. I don’t think I ever bought one. And, yes, lots of really nice ones among them!