Bookmark Collector

Over at BiblioBuffet, I had the novel experience of being interviewed by Lauren. It was a great interview and her questions led me to some interesting introspection as well as given me ideas for several new posts.
She’s had a good response from her readers, and that’s led me to wonder if there are some interests [...]

A blogger named Sixbucksadonkey is starting what he (she?) calls Bookmark Friday. The first entry said that every Friday would have a posting displaying a bookmark from his/her collection. However, the second posting was two weeks later.
Not that I would know anything about not keeping up with regular postings.
The two displayed so far are quirky [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s a wonderful website named Mirage Bookmark that I’ve been enjoying and want to pass along. In addition to a large number of web-links, it has articles on a variety of bookmark topics including history, types, and collecting.
They also have a gift shop where you can buy their gorgeous bookmarks. They have etched and engraved [...]

I received a comment on one of my posts from cdavid, the owner of the Intralibris blog. Following his link, I was treated to a delighful series of images of items from his collection. They are all things that he’s found in books. Presumably, they were all used as bookmarks. They’re a pretty [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]