Bookmark Collector

I just discovered Inside Books, a personal blog about reading and literature published by Simon Quicke who appears to be in London. He discusses books that he’s read, but he also has a regular post he calls Bookmark of the Week where he posts a picture of one of his bookmarks and talks a bit [...]

I came across this crochet pattern for a bookmark called Closed Diamond Filet. However, to download the pattern you will need to join Free Patterns.
There are quite a few patterns available for free on this site, but it’s quite annoying to navigate around. There are a lot of ads, and a major effort is made [...]

Announcements for the Spot Me Bookmark have been bouncing around the internet in the last day or so. The feature that makes it unique is the sliding pointer.
As you can see in the photo, the shape is the same as a basic bookmark. However, there’s a simple sliding mechanism that allows a pointer to be [...]

This will be a different type of post, but I feel compelled to write about this as a caution to others who look for bookmark related web-sites.
I have a Google search set up for notices about bookmarks in the news or mentioned in blogs. I probably get a hit once every other day or so [...]

Here’s a fun little bookmark that’s also a greeting card. In My Book is the website where you can buy these bookmark/cards. They start off as a blank greeting card, but there is a perforation that allows the cover to be separated and used as a bookmark. The inside of the card is blank so [...]

DLTK’s Crafts For Kids is a website with a wide range of craft projects for children. It has an extensive set of bookmark templates and instructions that kids can use to create their own bookmarks. There’s also a web application that lets you create your own custom bookmark from a wide variety of themes and [...]

One of my favorite bookmark related sites to follow is a blog by Olga Sotomayor Sánchez named Coleccionista Chilena de Marcapáginas. She’s a librarian in Chile, and has a large, well organized collection that she puts on display at various fairs and events. She collects and trades internationally, and has been active in Mail Art [...]

The Koffler Center Of The Arts is organizing The Bookmark Project for their annual Jewish Book Fair. They are looking for submissions of two original and functioning bookmarks from practicing artists or fine art students. The deadline is October 1, 2007.
Their theme this year is Paradox, and here’s the description from their submissions form:
The [...]

The city of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada is having its 150th anniversay this year. As part of the celebration, they’re conducting a bookmark decorating contest for kids 12 years old or younger. The template and entry form is available for download from their website along with all the rules.
I find it interesting that another contest [...]

I find it interesting that I found two different people blogging about using business cards as bookmarks on the same day.
Dan Schawbel has a marketing blog where he discusses having a “personal brand”. He sees the business card bookmark as another way of making sure that marketing materials are always on hand.
Patrick Rhone has a [...]