Bookmark Collector

Well, I survived tax time and was still able to track down a few links this week. Here are the ones I collected from April12 through April 18.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
At BiblioBuffet, Lauren’s bookmark inspired article is about encyclopedias: their history, development, and a bit of their taxonomy - Link
Over at the Ephemera blog, Marty [...]

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 [...]

Gail Anderson-Dargatz is a writer who’s blog entry about her bookmark making past-time caught my attention. Her post is actually about how she is ending this hobby, but within that discussion is a general description of how she uses dead butterflies and other insects to create bookmarks.
She talks about how the process started as a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Now that I’ve had a chance to do some initial organizing, it’s time to really start sorting. I spent a long Saturday sorting through all of the bookmarks while watching some videos. All of the larger, three dimensional bookmarks were collected into separate drawers, and all of the paper and thin material bookmarks into [...]

Where do you start organizing an accumulation of hundreds (with duplicates, thousands) of bookmarks? For me, it was getting the paper bookmarks separate from the rest and putting them into some form that I can sort through.
In a previous post, I mentioned the Negative Preservers. They’re clear, with four envelopes to a page. It’s easy [...]

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 [...]