Bookmark Collector

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, [...]

The Fabio Sirna site has a lovely set of PDF files that you can print and then cut and fold into a set of envelope-corner style of bookmarks. One set of bookmarks has a saying, another has a set of lines for making notes, and the third has a set of squares, like graph-paper – [...]