View Poll Results: How do you keep your place in a book?

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  • Use a bookmark

    5 21.74%
  • Dog ear/bend the page

    5 21.74%
  • Use some other flat item I have around

    7 30.43%
  • I always remember exactly where I was

    4 17.39%
  • I kinda remember, but have to scan for the exact spot

    2 8.70%
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Thread: How do you keep your place...?

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    Krankzinnigheid ligt dich Colonel Angus's Avatar
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    :monster: How do you keep your place...?

    ...When you read a book? Do you dog ear your pages? Do you use a bookmark? Do you use something else to hold the place?

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    DOG EARS.


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    on the rare occasion i need to keep a page, i use whatevers at hand.
    havent read a book in so so long

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    I'm guilty of the dog ear

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    I keep it open to the page and face down on a table. Bad for the book but it's an old habit.

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    Always a bookmark! I have one that I use all the time and it has this artwork on it:


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    I just memorise the page number. I don't always remember it exactly right when I get back to the book a day or more later, but close enough to find my place and pick up where I left off.

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    As a kid I used to dog ear the smurf out of my books but now I just memorise the page number.

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    Sometimes bookmark but usually remember

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    Krankzinnigheid ligt dich Colonel Angus's Avatar
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    I tend to use business cards that I have laying around. I used to use the receipt from when I bought the book, but w/ online shopping that's a thing of the past.

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    I voted flat item, but I actually just try to remember. I don't know why I just didn't vote for the right option for me.

    This is awkward...

    *leaves thread*

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    I remember down to the word usually exactly where I am. However, I'm not going to deny that sometimes, I pick the book up and realise I've read some paragraphs/pages when I'm so tired I can't even absorb it. So I'll scan over a few paragraphs if I feel like that has happened.

    These days however, most of my book reading is on a kindle. As such the kindle does most of the hard work for me.

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    Any random thing that works. Otherwise I'll just remember it later after scanning a few pages.
    Bow before the mighty Javoo!

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    I have no respect for those who dog ear books.

    I just use a small folded piece of paper.

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    For my textbooks I have about 20 lesson plan pieces in then pointing out problems that I like and want to teach. For my own classes I have my little colored arrows that point to proofs I need to memorize and use. It looks like a mess. As for leisure reading I remember where I was.

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