Bookmark Collector

Wow, I just came across a great website called BiblioBuffet. They’re tagline is “Writing Worth Reading - Reading Worth Writing About”. They are a site of book reviews and commentaries as well as discussions on other topics of interest to bibliophiles, including bookmark collectors!
They have a column on collecting bookmarks, called On Marking Books. I’ve [...]

Natalia from Yahoo’s Collecting Bookmarks group pointed out a Flikr group dedicated to images that can be made into bookmarks. There are (currently) over 300 images in the group: some are striking landscapes; some are posed shots; some are very constructed, artistic shots; some are abstract beyond recognition; and some are drawings.
I’m displaying two sample [...]

So, we had two great kids visiting yesterday: Ema is 8 and Asher is 4. By the time I came home from work, somehow Harriet and their Mom had both of the kids sweeping the leaves off of our deck. They were excited and pretty thorough, and I helped them get the leaves into our [...]

Sophie from the Collecting Bookmarks group on Yahoo has a del.icio.us page listing sites where you can print your own bookmarks. It’s an amazingly large list that she’s collected with (currently) 112 sites! She has them organized into a few categories covering: occasions, individual books, libraries, promotional, reading, and ‘cute’. I checked out a few [...]

Rats! I just got caught (again) following a “bookmark collecting” link that was really about bookmarking interesting places on the internet. That link was in the middle of some other links that I had been following to visit the personal sites of physical bookmark collectors.
It’s unfortunate that the Netscape Navigator browser started using the term [...]

I recently joined the Yahoo group Collecting Bookmarks. The group has been around since 2004, and currently consists of 89 members out of which 12 signed up for the last bookmark exchange. The membership is an internationally diverse set of collectors with at least one representative from all 6 populated continents. From my ‘Hello’ message, [...]

Since May of 2004, the Centre for Fine Print Research has been periodically putting on an amazing exhibition series called Bookmarks. The current exhibition is Bookmarks IV and runs from September (now) until February 2007.
Participating artists contribute editions of 100 bookmarks to be collected into sets. The sets are sent to galleries, bookstores, and libraries [...]