'... lent her his books… but could he believe that Minta read them? She dragged them about the garden, 
sticking in leaves to mark the place.'
The Lighthouse | Virginia Woolf 

'Before Bush left they gave him a bookmark shaped like a broccoli stalk.'
Robin Weir | Nancy Reagan's Washington hairdresser

'Bookmarks come in all shapes and sizes. Many are shaped like knives or swords because at the turn of 
the century, many pages in books were not completely separated, so they were also used as paper cutters.'
Howard Schecter | www.silverbookmarks.com

'When I start a new book, I like to choose the "right" bookmark, a slip of paper won´t do.'
Posted by keksi2  | bookcrossing.com

'Throw out those crumpled receipts, old card catalog cards, and ripped up parking tickets and get yourself 
some real bookmarks.' 
Robin K. Blum
                                              
'The story goes that Art Fry, a new product development researcher at 3M, was frustrated by bookmarks 
that kept falling out of his choir book, and ultimately created the Post-It® note.'
Laine Farley | Build A Better Bookmark | BiblioBuffet Website

'Culture is not only passed on orally or by instinctive imitation, but above all through reading and study, 
hence also through the assistance of such a small object as a bookmark.'
Marco Ferreri

'The American Security and Trust Company is sending out an attractive New Year souvenir in the shape of 
a bookmark, on one side of which is a handsome photo engraving showing a panaromic view of the corner 
of Fifteenth street Pennsylvania avenue. They will be mailed upon request to all wishing to obtain them.'
The Washington Post | Jan 13, 1907 

'Although it must be at least 20 years since I first started collecting, I continue to be surprised that even after 
all that time I still find bookmarks of a type or design I have not seen before.'
Peter Standley

'Diamond Shamrock Corp. turns trimmings from its annual report into bookmarks for Dallas schoolchildren.'
Wall Street Journal | 1987

'The bookmark accompanying the books for six hundred years now, curiously didn't receive much attention 
yet.'
E. Günther Rehse | Lesezeichen | 1994

'The story of the bookmarker has not yet been fully told, perhaps because this useful but humble 
accessory to the library has but slight historical interest apart from that of the volume to which it belongs.'
Frank Hamel | The History and Development of the Bookmarker | The Book-Lovers's Magazine, 1906
                                               
'I’m talking about the physical, save-your-place-in-a-book type of bookmark, rather than the virtual, 
hey-I-want-to-remember-this-cool-place-on-the-net type of bookmark.'
Alan Irwin | Bookmark Collector Blog

'Many of the public libraries place markers in the books they issue, on some of which the rules and 
regulations governing the institute appear. Usually they bear the legend 'This marker to be returned 
with the book? - a much needed but oft-neglected injunction, if we were to take as accurate the statistics 
given by one librarian. Ten thousand markers were placed in the books, and at the end of three months 
not one of them could be found !'
Frank Hamel | The History and Development of the Bookmarker | The Book-Lover's Magazine | 1906

'It becomes clear quickly, especially when looking at the home-made bookmarks that there is an 
intensive and yet largely unexplored relation of the human being to the bookmark.'
Heidemarie Fischer-Kesselmann

'One of the great advantages of collecting bookmarkers is that they are easy to store.'
A.W. Coysh

'It is January 2007 and a new word is born: bookmarking. This word which has been used alone for 
marking web pages with your browser so far has a new meaning and usage now. It covers the entire 
dealing with physical bookmarks like collecting them, exchanging bookmarks with friends, storing and 
displaying them and, of course, speaking and writing about them. In this sense: happy new year and 
happy bookmarking!'
Asim Maner | Mirage Bookmark website   

'Perhaps lexicographers might be convinced (though it is doubtful) to limit “bookmark” or “bookmarker” 
to the definition of the collected item.'
Frank X. Roberts | Defining the Bookmark | BiblioBuffet Website

'When relatives and friends begin to recognise and appreciate the enthusiasm and effort with which you 
are increasing your collection they, on their part, will often be willing to make positive contributions by
looking out for bookmarks when visiting other towns on day trips or on holiday. An interesting collection 
of foreign bookmarks can be built up in this manner over a period of years.'
Geoffrey Firth
                                                           
'The oldest reference is from Omaha, NE, which reported that the Omaha Public Library “has a new trophy 
in its collection of things used as bookmarks—a slice of bacon.” The article wryly observed that “the library 
staff will not undertake to preserve it.”'
Laine Farley | The Legend of the Bacon Bookmark | BiblioBuffet Website

'Save your bacon - Use a bookmark'
National Preservation Office | The British Library | 1977

'A preservation librarian at Indiana University was so appalled that she called for establishing the Worst
Bookmark of the Year Award after finding a Hostess apple pie inside a book.'
Laine Farley | The Legend of the Bacon Bookmark | BiblioBuffet Website

'I never thought of it, but bacon is actually the perfect size and shape for a bookmark. I'm imagining a nice 
hardcover edition of Hamlet with a piece of bacon poking out the top - how classy.'
posted by little miao | May 16, 2007 | http://mariser.vox.com

'Every slip of paper in the house is my potential bookmark.'
posted by AwsomeAud | bookcrossing.com

'Sometimes a bookmark can bring a smile, somethimes cause a pause for thought but it nearly always 
sparks off a memory and apart from a postcard or a photograph there is not many things that have the 
power to do that.'
Simon Quicke | The Love of Bookmarks | Inside Books | insidebooks.blogspot.com

'The most unusual thing I ever found returned in a book was a passport - being used as a bookmark ...'
Carol Simmons | Director | Daly City Library

'It’s unfortunate that the Netscape Navigator browser started using the term bookmark back in the mid 
1990’s. Internet Explorer uses the term favorite places, and the first web browser, Mosaic, used the term 
hotlink. But, Navigator was the big web browser during those early, precedent setting days, and the 
terminology stuck around.'
Alan Irwin | Bookmark Collector Blog

'The bookmark changed in the course of time from the mere text marker to a carrier of communication, 
from a marker for reading it turned into a mark which can be read for itself.'
Heidemarie Fischer-Kesselmann

                         

ODE TO A BOOKMARK

O little bookmark
slim and slight
between the pages
closed up tight.

When at last
I douse my light
you guard my place
all through the night.

No matter where
that place may be
I know you'll keep it
just for me.

Then in the morn
your squarish head
admist the book
above my bed.

O little bookmark
slim and slight
working, working
through the night.

Duncan Ball

'From the late 4th century A.D., when it seems the only bookmark available to St Augustine was his 
finger, to the present where they have become cultural artifacts as numerous as golf balls, bookmarks 
have remained extremely difficult to define.' 
Frank X. Roberts | Defining the Bookmark | BiblioBuffet Website

'Every one who reads very much needs a bookmark. Here is the way I make them. Get a good pattern 
of a star. Trace the star onto cardboard and cut it out. Cover the cardboard with silver paper or pretty 
cloth. Before you put the paper or cloth on it get a piece of ribbon about 1 foot long.'
The Washington Post | Jan 11, 1931 

'Although many of these novel bookmarks seem like good ideas, it is perhaps an indication of their 
value that several of them can no longer be found. In the end, simple paper bookmarks or their handy 
substitutes in theform of tickets, receipts and cards appear to win the day with bookmark users.'
Laine Farley| Build A Better Bookmark | BiblioBuffet Website

'It’s a set of bookmarks advertising their own Bookmark Exhibition. Images of bookmarks in the exhibition 
are used on the bookmarks advertising the exhibition. I think this is some sort of meta bookmark category.'
Alan Irwin | Bookmark Collector Blog | about the bookmark exhibition on Mirage Bookmark website

'Back in the good old days, marketing and PR for libraries consisted of a flier or a bookmark.
Now, we have to be just as commercially minded as the private sector.'
Valerie Maginnis | Mission Viejo Library

'As well as being a functional tool, a bookmark denotes human effort as decisively as a flagstaff planted 
on Everest. The sliver of paper silently congratulates the conqueror of a world of letters.'
...
'Losing someone’s place in a book is a great bibliographic faux pas, second only to never returning a 
borrowed volume.'
...
'Deep in a story, suddenly you turn a page and find the marker nagging at your curiosity, like a message 
in a bottle from a forgotten traveller.'
Nancy Campbell | nancycampbell.blogspot.com