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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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 Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 01:00:09
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I have a stack of bookmarks that I rotate thru... I mostly use lami (idol cards, little laminated cards with anime art on them) when reading novels, shitajiki (pencil boards, plastic sheets with anime art) for game material, and for my manga, I use as a bookmark a piece from the big light-up menu from the Pizza Hut I used to work at.
I use doubles of cards from all the various collectible-card-games/trading-cards I've purchased over the years. They stretch all the way back to the first Transformers trading cards back in the late 80's and come up through to the latest edition of Magic: The Gathering.
If I don't have any cards on hand to use as bookmarks, it's either whatever else is around and applicable. Strips of paper, handkerchief, napkin, pen, pencil, magazine, another book!, a sock,... you get the idea. 
I used to use doubles of CCGs and various cards, as well, but my stack of bookmarks got way too high. I think it still is, but I like variety... And when I'm reading books from one trilogy/series, I try to make sure I pick lami from one series. Right now, with the Lankhmar books, I'm going thru some of my Love Hina lami cards.
I tried to follow that path. But when you've got 20+ books that you're reading at the same time, it becomes somewhat difficult to maintain a theme for my bookmarks.  |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 03:02:50
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| A SOCK??! Sage, that's got to be the weirdest thing I've ever heard of for a bookmark! I sometimes use Magic or Yu-Gi-Oh cards (used to be quite good at both, back in the day) as a bookmark, but I usually use themed bookmarks that I get at the library or that come in my mail. (Just got one in my ASPCA member renewal! :) ) Then again, I also sometimes use paint sample cards. (The kind you get at Lowe's to pick paint colors- I also use them as aides in writing color descriptions.) |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 03:57:30
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| I'm one of those evil people who folds page corners. Oh yeah. |
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Aryalómë
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 04:08:15
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| my reading speed is a bit slower when im laying down as well, but not when i'm laying on my stomach for some reason. i prefer, generally, to sit up and read. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 04:39:45
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I'm one of those evil people who folds page corners. Oh yeah.
You know, I remember my classmate back in college...She takes care of her books way too much. When someone borrowed her The Notebook and A Walk to Remember and saw the folded pages, she fumed right in the middle of our philosophy class and told him, "Burn in HELL!" [Well, in fairness to her, she did warn him not to fold the pages, saying (and this was her exact line), "If you fold the pages, I'm going to flay you alive)] |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 04:47:37
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I'm one of those evil people who folds page corners. Oh yeah.
Oooh, not good. I banned the Lady K from my home library for that kind of conduct. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 05:31:02
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Anyone tried reading a series in reverse, from the last book to the first? I once did, with The Chronicles of Narnia. And I'm not doing it again. |
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Lady Fellshot
Senior Scribe
USA
379 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 05:38:32
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| I read the Dresden files in the following order: 8, 1, 6, 4, 5, 9, 10, 7. Let's not get started on how I got through the Drizzt Books, suffice to say that I went really out of order. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 06:27:01
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Reading out of order is fine, I guess, as I do so depending on the availability of the books. I sometimes do that with Feist's, Davidson's, and Martin's novels; and in FR, I did likewise in WotSQ (book 5, then 1...). That time when I read The Chronicles of Narnia in reverse, I had all the books. I only tried reading it that way for a change.  |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 06:31:33
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| I did that with some of the Xanth books by accident. The last five or so got confusing to tell which came first for me, as I didn't get my hands on them until they had hit the local library. So I had no idea what order they went in, and just picked them at random. Oddly, it didn't seem to matter much, as the stories all still made perfect sense. I think Anthony has been getting short on ideas, and the books really disconnected from each other by that point. |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7989 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 06:46:30
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| That's a big part of the reason I never read incomplete series. I just buy the trilogy/set all at once, I refuse to wait (for years) or play into the hype. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 07:10:22
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Sometimes you don't know if a novel remains a stand-alone or turns into a series. You just have to read it as it is. Just like Feist's Magician, the first edition, not the Author's Preferred Edition. It was meant to be a stand-alone. That's why he was forced to end the Riftwar [Kelewan vs Midkemia] in that book. Its international success moved the publisher to make it a trilogy. Same thing happened to MJ Davidson's The Royal Treatment, Thomas Martin's Magelord: The Awakening, J. Johnson's Unbroken Chain, and many more others. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 12:05:39
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My bookmark is pretty old. I got torn on one end but I put tape all around it to make it a tad stronger. It's a Lord of the Rings movie bookmakr of Frodo holding Sting. I also put on paper and taped to the back all the months of the calendar of harptos and the RW equivalents (I'm only starting to slowly know some off hand) - a handy reference when dates are mentioned in the novels.  |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 17:29:15
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I'm getting worried about my favorite bookmark. :( It's starting to crack in many places and the coating on it is almost gone. Course, I have had the thing for 20 years!
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My bookmark is pretty old. I got torn on one end but I put tape all around it to make it a tad stronger. It's a Lord of the Rings movie bookmakr of Frodo holding Sting. I also put on paper and taped to the back all the months of the calendar of harptos and the RW equivalents (I'm only starting to slowly know some off hand) - a handy reference when dates are mentioned in the novels.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36905 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 17:54:48
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See, that's what's nice about the lami I use: they are laminated cards, so they're rather durable. Some of them have been in use for at least 10 years.
The shitajiki are durable, too, and that little sign thing from Pizza Hut has been in use since approximately 1993, without any signs of wear. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 18:00:28
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Originally posted by Kuje
I'm getting worried about my favorite bookmark. :( It's starting to crack in many places and the coating on it is almost gone. Course, I have had the thing for 20 years!
That's older than mine (mine has Frodo's head half cut off lol), but yeah nice that yours has lasted so long anyways. |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 11 Feb 2011 : 18:43:01
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Indeed, but when I have to toss it, its going to make me sad. :( And on the back of it, it was originally white. However, I've used it so much that it has now turned black from all the ink.
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Originally posted by Kuje
I'm getting worried about my favorite bookmark. :( It's starting to crack in many places and the coating on it is almost gone. Course, I have had the thing for 20 years!
That's older than mine (mine has Frodo's head half cut off lol), but yeah nice that yours has lasted so long anyways.
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 12 Feb 2011 : 00:38:13
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Originally posted by Kuje
I'm getting worried about my favorite bookmark. :( It's starting to crack in many places and the coating on it is almost gone. Course, I have had the thing for 20 years!
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Originally posted by Alisttair
My bookmark is pretty old. I got torn on one end but I put tape all around it to make it a tad stronger. It's a Lord of the Rings movie bookmakr of Frodo holding Sting. I also put on paper and taped to the back all the months of the calendar of harptos and the RW equivalents (I'm only starting to slowly know some off hand) - a handy reference when dates are mentioned in the novels.
It's probably a good thing that my sock-marks aren't also approaching the same 20 year-period of use. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
Posted - 12 Feb 2011 : 05:37:28
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| That goes for my Magic card ones, too. Speaking of reading habits, I just found a bagful of "new" books to read on my library's book swap shelves. You can swap out a book for another one, or pay a quarter to buy it. I got three bucks worth of books today, including a Tolkein (for my hubby, since he's the fan) and a couple of Moorcock titles. And a copy of the old D&D novel The Dragon's Tomb. Yea!! |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 12 Feb 2011 : 05:48:49
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Never used special bookmarks. The closest thing to special I used was our cat's laminated picture. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36905 Posts |
Posted - 12 Feb 2011 : 14:15:01
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
That goes for my Magic card ones, too. Speaking of reading habits, I just found a bagful of "new" books to read on my library's book swap shelves. You can swap out a book for another one, or pay a quarter to buy it. I got three bucks worth of books today, including a Tolkein (for my hubby, since he's the fan) and a couple of Moorcock titles. And a copy of the old D&D novel The Dragon's Tomb. Yea!!
There used to be some used bookstores in my area, but they've since shut down. I used to frequent one of them many years back (when I hardly had any money), and I bought a great many books there, oft for a very reasonable price. I recall one occasion, when The Sum of All Fears had recently come out in paperback -- I got it and all of the previous Tom Clancy books (except The Hunt For Red October; I already had that one) for just $3.
When I started working, I stopped going by there as frequently -- I could then afford new books, and I'd already gotten most of what they had that I was interested in. It got to where I was only going by once or twice a year. Then I went by one day and the place was shut down. It was very sad. And I'd still had a lot of store credit there, too!  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 12 Feb 2011 : 14:38:50
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Originally posted by Dennis
Never used special bookmarks. The closest thing to special I used was our cat's laminated picture.
For a long time, I just used an index card or a folded piece of paper... My habit of using lami as bookmarks started when I first got a couple of Ranma ones, at Enterprise 1701 in Orlando (obviously, long before they relocated and changed their name to Sci Fi City). I happened to notice the cards, and because I am a collector-type and was happily grabbing all Ranma stuff I could find, I bought them. It was later, on the car ride home, that I realized they'd make good bookmarks.
For a while (again, being a collector-type), I was actively seeking out lami from various anime that I liked. Sometimes that led to getting extras of a particular card, at which point it was either toss the extra or find some use for it. So into the bookmark pile they went.
I've not collected lami in a long time; I'm not even sure I still have the ones I had collected! I've got to check and see whether or not they were in the fire... But I still collect shitajiki, when the art is nice (I particularly like the art for Sentimental Grafitti) and the price reasonable. I've wound up with half a dozen extras of those, too. Some I've actually used for their intended purpose, but others wound up as bookmarks for sourcebooks, simply because I had nothing else to do with them. |
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 12 Feb 2011 : 18:49:43
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I know I said this somewhere else, but I had a friend who never opens his books far enough to crack the spine. He won't eat while he reads either on the off chance that he might get anything on them...
I do have a weird habit - I only buy paperback, and not just because if the cost. I started with a bunch of paperbacks in college and now I buy all paperback so they line up on the shelves... plus a paperback will fit in my coat pocket better. I don't know if that's a weird reading habit exactly...
I do have a book mark of my children, but my husband stole it... |
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 12 Feb 2011 : 19:29:21
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My books are the same way and yes, I've read all of them. I'm sorry, but cracking the spine, to me, is the same as taking a living creature and snapping it's spine.
This is why I don't hand out my books any more either. I've had to many ruined that way when I know when I gave them to burrow they were not destroyed. Course, then I told my friends that they owed me a new book or money.
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I know I said this somewhere else, but I had a friend who never opens his books far enough to crack the spine. He won't eat while he reads either on the off chance that he might get anything on them...
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 13 Feb 2011 : 01:12:21
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Originally posted by Kuje
My books are the same way and yes, I've read all of them. I'm sorry, but cracking the spine, to me, is the same as taking a living creature and snapping it's spine.
This is why I don't hand out my books any more either. I've had to many ruined that way when I know when I gave them to burrow they were not destroyed. Course, then I told my friends that they owed me a new book or money.
I'm largely in the same boat. I don't open my private library at home to anyone who doesn't already appreciate my strict "no dog-ears or spine-cracking" policy. No overnight borrowing either, for the most part, because I've lost too many books that way. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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36905 Posts |
Posted - 13 Feb 2011 : 04:40:34
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| I'm very careful about the spines of my books... Of course, I got a lot of the older titles used, so my spines are not all pristine. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Posted - 13 Feb 2011 : 05:07:11
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I'm very careful about the spines of my books... Of course, I got a lot of the older titles used, so my spines are not all pristine.
Agreed. I've purchased a great many tomes of "popular" classics -- usually second-hand -- and usually with some degree of spine-damage.
Of course, I consider it a testament to my ability to look after my books that these rare tomes have remained in much the same condition as the day I purchased them -- without any further damage done. |
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Dennis
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Posted - 13 Feb 2011 : 05:07:57
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I only have problem with the spines when they're paperbacks. I try to be careful in opening paperbacks, but I find that not opening them wide enough [as if I'm peeking instead of reading] totally absurd. My comfort in reading precedes whatever fate the books will have in my hands.
Part of the reason I usually buy hardbound is that I don't have that kind of problem with the spines. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
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Posted - 13 Feb 2011 : 21:56:50
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| I'm not usually so picky with mine, at least with the paperbacks. I do try to be careful with them, but many have been reado so many times that they are starting to fall apart anyway, and a few have been loaned out (and don't always come back in the same condition), but since they are paperback and fairly easy to replace, I don't worry too much about it. Also, although I don't make a habit of it, there are some books where I will highlight certain passages for later reference, or OCCASIONALLY dog-ear a page or two if I have nothing else. I never do this with hardbacks, though, and only rarely with paperbacks- and never with source-books. Issues of Dragon or other research magazines or books I might sometimes do that with, though. |
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Dennis
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Posted - 17 Feb 2011 : 21:28:53
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When I'm reading an eBook, which happens very rarely these days, I 'search' for my favorite characters or setting so that I'd know when they would appear, thus spoiling myself a little. |
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