Bookmark Collector

Here are the links I’ve come across in the last week (March 1 through March 7). Enjoy!
Bookmarks In The News
Articles:
Lauren at BibliBuffet has a nice article about phonographs which was inspired by a lovely pair of bookmarks – Link
An article about how Jason Milam started selling his hand-crafted metal bookmarks online (his sales link is [...]

Items found during the week from 15 February to 22 February 2008.
BOOKMARKS IN THE NEWS
Informarion:
At BiblioBuffet, Laine Farley has an interesting article discussing corner bookmarks – Link
Designs:
An image of some interesting animal shaped bookmarks, but I can’t find the manufacturer – Link
A bookmark design contest in North Yorkshire, England supporting a campaign encouraging kids to [...]

This is the first entry in my new link roundup format. Since I’m playing catchup, it’s a big one! In the future I’ll update weekly.
I’ve included a few more sources in my search for links, and I’ve organized them under some new headings.
If you have anything you’d like me to include in future entries, or [...]

I’ve been catching up on the amazing images that folks are posting from their collections. It’s a big post, and long overdue, but here is some of the latest bookmark eye-candy:
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Halloween Reading
Over at Sixbucksadonkey there are a couple of new Bookmark Friday entries.
The first entry (with a sample image on the left) is for a [...]

More news items:
Bookmark Contest in Ironwood, MI
The Friends of the Library in Ironwood, MI is holding a bookmark contest to celebrate Children’s Book Week in November. Winners will receive a $10 gift certificate at Book World. The deadline is November 3 and it is not limited to children. The age related categories for entry [...]

Here are some posts from collections that I saw this week:

Punt Per Punt: Let’s Go Reading
Nuria has posted a nice set of bookmarks centered on the theme of reading and encouraging reading.
There are 25 images in this set.
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Inside Books
Simon Quicke’s latest Bookmark of the Week features a gilded mummy case of Henutmehit. It’s from [...]

Well, it’s been a couple of weeks and there are quite a few posts around the net to catch up on. So here we go.
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A Reading Endorsement
Over at Sixbucksadonkey there have been several Bookmark Friday entries.
This pair of bookmarks was produced to encourage reading and used the images of the actors from two popular TV [...]

Several months ago, Harriet went to an estate sale and bought these two bookmarks. From the nature of the other items for sale, it was clear that this was the home of a Jewish woman who had survived the holocaust, and so it was a particularly poignant set to bring home
Each of the metal bookmarks [...]

María Rosa from Spain has started a new blog named Punto de Papel in which she is posting her bookmark collection. The images she’s posted so far show a pretty impressive collection, and rather than select one of the beautiful bookmarks as the header for this post, I’m going to urge you to head over [...]

Here are some posts from collections that I saw this week:
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Here’s the latest Bookmark Friday entry over at Sixbucksadonkey (I love that title). He’s titled the post “A LOVE Thing” and the caption on the bookmark is “I love books so much I wish I could just marry them”. There’s also an audio recording of [...]