Marking Your Spot

There always comes a time when you have to put your book down so how do you mark your spot? There are different ways of doing so that reflect the different type of readers in the world and each with their own personality.

Type 1: Traditionalist:

 These readers use the classic tool— a bookmark. Nothing in the book accessory category can ever beat a bookmark and tucking it between the pages before closing the book and seeing the colorful, fringed string hanging. If this is choice, you have more than a dozen of different bookmarks and each one reflect some aspect of your personality or the book’s tone. If you are like me, you purchase a new bookmark every time you get a new book.

Type 2: Modern:

This type of reader is the one who uses those plastic arrows, these bookmarks are the newfangled cousin to the paperclip, which also falls under this reader type. You probably have a those things scattered about. Me personally, I don’t like them. They slip off the page so they’re useless. 

Type 3: Wild Card:

This reader type will use anything handy to mark their place. Pieces of paper, a sticky note, a picture, anything. Maybe, you tell yourself you’ll purchase a bookmark and most likely you have but it’s lost or stuck in a DNF book that you shoved onto your bookshelf. But you don’t have time or the want to search it out and when you’re at the bookstore, you never pick up a new one for various reasons. 

Type 4: The Animal

The animal is the one with the dog-eared pages. The upper right-hand corners of every dozen or so pages are creased. Book lovers are irritated by you but you don’t care. You do things your way.

   

Which one are you?