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"@9: I used to be like that, but after a while, it became annoying having to walk..."
"I can imagine some klutz tearing a page with this contraption. I remember findin..."
"Silly? sure. Pointless? Absolutely. Then again, all 'purpose built' bookmarks ar..."
"I would worry about that bending my books a little......"
"Alternate suggestion: Use a large rubber band. Make a sharpie line on the band ..."
"A rubber band with a line drawn on it in marker does this trick as well...."
"The fourth word on the line of text next to the little line-marker knob seems ....."
"Who has to stop in the middle of the page anyway? Don't these people read a book..."
"Or you know, you could just use a rubber band. That's what I used to use as a bo..."
"Very cleaver, but does anyone actually read books that much anymore. :) Well, I..."
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Katie
#1 – 10:14 AM September 3, 2009
or you could draw a line on an elastic band. Free!
Bealed
#2 – 10:25 AM September 3, 2009
Very cleaver, but does anyone actually read books that much anymore. :)
Well, I guess at the beach or on the bedside table. Ok... its cool.
Thanks,
Bill
hidaniel
#3 – 10:35 AM September 3, 2009
Or you know, you could just use a rubber band. That's what I used to use as a bookmark.
Bunce
#4 – 10:46 AM September 3, 2009
Who has to stop in the middle of the page anyway? Don't these people read a book chapter by chapter?
Anyway, do you spot why they choose to mark this exact line?
Ilya
#5 – 11:11 AM September 3, 2009
The fourth word on the line of text next to the little line-marker knob seems ... out of place. A photoshop for subliminal excitement value?
Anonymous Anonymous
#6 – 11:20 AM September 3, 2009
A rubber band with a line drawn on it in marker does this trick as well.
DSMVWL THS
#7 – 11:24 AM September 3, 2009
Alternate suggestion: Use a large rubber band. Make a sharpie line on the band to mark a particular line of text.
Shannon
#8 – 12:00 PM September 3, 2009
I would worry about that bending my books a little...
lectroid
#9 – 8:34 PM September 3, 2009
Silly? sure. Pointless? Absolutely. Then again, all 'purpose built' bookmarks are silly and pointless, considering that none of them do anything a scrap of paper couldn't do just as effectively.
But I'll happily get behind anything that stops people from dog-earing pages, or worse, setting books face down, open, breaking the bindings. The sight of either of those makes me deeply and irrationally upset. If it takes a 3 dollar gold-embossed laminated drawing of a fairy with a fringed cord on it, or an over-designed rubber band to make them stop, I'm all for it.
eigafan
#10 – 12:25 AM September 4, 2009
I can imagine some klutz tearing a page with this contraption. I remember finding interesting things (playing card, naughty polaroid, ticket stub, boarding pass, business card, folded candy wrapper, receipt, shopping list, cancelled check, lottery ticket) left within the pages of old books when I worked at a used book store.
Gloria
#11 – 12:33 PM September 4, 2009
@9: I used to be like that, but after a while, it became annoying having to walk around looking for a scrap of paper that would eventually get lost or fall out, etc. I like marking a book -- my own, of course, never another's -- with signs of use.
Every crease in a spine, every dog-eared page is a reminder that the book has been, is, and will be enjoyed and used by a real, live person, not just quietly kept on a shelf (however reverently). I look at my battered paperbacks with much more fondness than my hardy, pristine hardbacks.