Confessions of a Bookworm #5

Posted April 29, 2015 by Marsha in This one's a Keeper / 4 Comments

book confessionI love taking part in features and memes.  It brings us book lovers and book bloggers a bit closer together, if only in our shared love of reading great books.    :)

There is a new feature over at Parajunkee.   Confessions of a Bookworm.  Here’s the link.   And the information about all of this is located at that link.

This week’s question is:

Do you prefer using bookmarks, or bending the book page?

I raise my hand and swear I just got the shivers like fingernails on a blackboard at the very thought of bending book pages.  *visible shudder*

I have a lovely collection of bookmarks from vacations, presents, saw it and just had to have it – that is the only way to mark the place in one of my books.  I get violent when a book is returned to me with bent pages.  My own mother used to do this and it drove me crazy.  Needless-to-say, she got pretty new bookmarks every single Christmas.

On the now rare occasion when I do loan out physical books, several bookmarks go with them – with stern instructions to use them or else no more books loans for you.  I will be frank in that I am anal retentive about never bending or folding down book pages.  Never, ever.

4 responses to “Confessions of a Bookworm #5”

    • Marcy

      It simply annoys me. It’s so simple to use anything on hand as a bookmark instead of bending the pages.

      Thanks for commenting 🙂

    • Marcy

      There’s not much you can do about pre-owned books – and I constantly search used book stores and yard sales for older books that I collect. Still, it’s sad to see them mutilated.

      Thanks for visiting