"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." (Francis Bacon)

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Booked by 3, September Edition

Keeping Your Place

1. Do you use bookmarks? (If no, continue to question 2.)

  • What do you use?
  • What is the most unusual bookmark you've ever used?
  • Do you collect them?

2. If you don't use bookmarks, how do you keep your place?
  • Fold over corners?
  • Remember the page you were up to?
  • Other?

3. Where do you like to stop reading?
  • At the end of chapters?
  • At the end of scenes?
  • Wherever you are when you doze off?
As usual, I'll post my answers in a couple of days. Leave your answers in the comments, or put them on your blog and leave a link here in the comments so I (and other folks) can go read them.



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  1. Anonymous2:23 AM

    Good questions; I always wonder about other people's habits.

    I use pictures and postcards as bookmarks, and I have been known to dogear pages if I can't find another way to keep my place. Sometimes I try to just remember the page number, but that never works. :)

    I stop reading whenever I doze off. Doesn't matter where. I read til I can't anymore. :)

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  2. Anonymous3:19 PM

    I use bookmarks. I have a wad of them rubber-banded that sit in the nightstand drawer, which is usually where I start reading/read - in bed. I collect them in the sense that I've had many for years; we did a special group fo them for Bouchercon in 1994 and some of THOSE still surface. I have some GREAT ones from ALA about Banned Books (it's that time again folks) and as I go to mystery conventions, I end up with stacks of them, as they're used as advertising. I have quotes, i have images of people reading, I will NEVER run out.
    I stop reading when I want to; wherever I am, when I realize Im sleepy, doesn't matter. I often try to finish the chapter, but if I do I'm probably not remembering what I read anyway, so I just stop. And I admit to thiking that people who turn down corners are bad and evil (ok not really but it DOES make me cringe); sorry to all of you corner-turners out there.

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  3. Anonymous8:45 PM

    yay, I have a blogger account and so can comment here again :) answers are up on my page (naridu.com). It feels good to say hi again.

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  4. Anonymous8:02 PM

    Just surfing through and thought I'd participate. I agree these are good questions; it's always interesting to read what others do.

    I posted my answers over here:
    http://ctegan.diaryland.com/050917_64.html

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  5. Anonymous11:00 PM

    I'll have you know I opened a blogger account just so I can post here. Anyway, I will answer this meme on my site: adrienne.eugaet.com

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  6. ShellyS11:43 PM

    Hi, Danielle,
    Thanks for playing. I read your answers on your blog, but couldn't see where to leave comments.

    Adrienne, I'm glad you got a Blogger account so you could answer. I got a LiveJournal account so I could read entries by friends that were "Friends Only" and got hooked on it and moved my writing blog over there. I'll go look at your answers. :)

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  7. Anonymous10:33 AM

    I'm so far behind! It's already October, and I just completed September's Booked by 3. Oh well, better late than never. ;) Check out my answers on my blog at www.iloveagoodmystery.com.

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