Friday, December 14, 2012

Book Blogger Hop December 14th - December 20th: Esperanto Has Twenty-Eight Letters in It's Alphabet

Book Blogger Hop

Jen at Crazy for Books has restarted her weekly Book Blogger Hop to help book bloggers connect with one another. The hop is currently traveling about the blogosphere and is being hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. The only requirements to participate in the Hop are to write and link a post answering the weekly question and then visit other blogs that are also participating to see if you like their blog and would like to follow them. A complete explanation of the history and the rules of the Hop can be found here.

This week Jen asks: What bookmarker are you currently using?

I have a pile of bookmarks that I use, with no particular preference for any of them. The most numerous bookmark in the pile is the bookmark given out by the Book Mooch website. I have several of those, and as a result I probably use them more often than other bookmarks, but they are not my favorite.

My favorite bookmarks are those that have resulted from my book collecting. I collect books, and I'm usually looking for older books,many of which are not even in print any more. So I spend a lot of time hunting for books at library book sales, used book stores, and sometimes garage sales. And people leave bookmarks, and many other things, inside used books. I've found all kinds of odd things in used books, often old pictures, grocery lists, half finished letters, and the like. And bookmarks. Lots of bookmarks. Usually they are from some used book store in a distant state that has probably gone out of business. And I save them all and keep them in a pile on my desk. I love using these bookmarks, partially because I got them almost by accident, but mostly because they have a story behind them that I don't know, and will never know.

Go to previous Book Blogger Hop: There Are 27 Bones in the Human Hand
Go to subsequent Book Blogger Hop: There Are Twenty-Nine Knuts in a Sickle

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8 comments:

  1. How fun finding all those things in old books.

    Thanks for sharing.

    Happy Hopping!!

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
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  2. I love your story about your book markers. I have many and I like keeping them in books I haven't read yet. Then when I read the book the book marker is waiting to save my place while I read.

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  3. I used to have a lot of Book Mooch bookmarks.

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  4. Interesting that you have so many books and bookmarkers!

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  5. @Elizabeth: It is one of the interesting side perks of collecting used books.

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  6. @Gigi Ann: I usually keep a stack of books that I am going to read in the near future, usually stacked in the order that I am planning on reading them so the top book is the next book to be read. I put a bookmark in all of these books so it is ready when I grab it off the stack.

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  7. @Vonnie Rivera: What happened to them? That is probably a story in itself.

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  8. @Pat @ Post for Now: Thank you. It is fun to find little curiosities like odd book marks inside of old books.

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