Bookmark Collector

Joan L. Huegel is an avid collector who published a fabulous newsletter titled Bookmark Collector for many years. Unfortunately, this little gem of a newsletter has stopped being published, although Ms. Huegel is still publishing a newsletter named P.A.C.T. (People and Collecting/Trading).
Although Bookmark Collector was published with the simplest of production values, it was filled [...]

The Fabio Sirna site has a lovely set of PDF files that you can print and then cut and fold into a set of envelope-corner style of bookmarks. One set of bookmarks has a saying, another has a set of lines for making notes, and the third has a set of squares, like graph-paper - [...]

Well, this was a much more involved task than it first seemed. I’d picked out a few bookmarks that I thought were interesting and more or less represented the breadth of my collection. I’ve not done much photo-documentation of objects, but I’ve been exposed to the basic ideas, and I have some of the equipment.
I [...]

Okay, what have I gotten myself into.
I wanted to make a simple banner image for the blog. Just a few bookmarks; a sampling of my overall collection. I thought I’d start simply enough: just gather what I have into a few drawers to simplify choosing a sample set.
Several hours and 5 drawers later, I’ve gathered [...]

Hello and welcome to my bookmark collecting blog. I’m talking about the physical, save-your-place-in-a-book type of bookmark, rather than the virtual, hey-I-want-to remember-this-cool-place-on-the-net type of bookmark.
I’ve been collecting bookmarks for years, although a better description would probably be accumulating. I think there’s a real difference between an accumulator and a collector, and I plan to [...]