scraps of paper in stacks of books as bookmarks

Still others were part of book clubs or Bible study groups and wanted to pass some bookmarks out to the other members. The requests came pouring in from readers all over the country. In the newsletter I sent out recently, I offered to send bookmarks out to whoever requested them. I show my fictional book women making some of those bookmarks on one of their weekly work days at their library location. To try to keep that from happening, the book women made bookmarks out of old greeting cards to give out to their readers. So they didn’t want readers to dogear the pages to mark their place.

The earliest known existing bookmark, found among the ruins of a monastery in Egypt, is said to be from the 6th century AD.īookmarks make an appearance in my book about the packhorse libraries, Along a Storied Trail. The librarians worked hard to keep the books they carried out to readers in good shape. And that’s been true forever since bookmarks have been around since the first books was published. I love how eye-catching these bookmarks are, and while most any scrap of paper can serve the purpose of marking one’s place in a book, readers do enjoy having something attractive to stick in their books. “Jessamine Brady loves her Shaker sisters and brothers, but can’t stop imagining life and love in the outside world.” The bookmark for my recent release features the beautiful cover along with a couple of endorsements from writers Suzanne Woods Fisher and Susie Finkbeiner. “Cozy up to Hidden Springs where things are sweet, sentimental–and a little sinister.” The Gifted bookmark features a close-up of my blonde Jessamine and this snippet. “An emotional exploration of the power of love and the bond of family” I like the line on the bookmark for my Hidden Springs mysteries. The Refuge, my most recent Shaker book, has the cover pictured and this line to try to pull readers into the story. It also generally has an endorsement like the book mark for Angel Sister that I was blessed to have Lauraine Snelling call a “jewel of a story.” Generally the bookmarks have a picture of the cover with one or two sentences to try to entice a reader to want to find out more about the story. These are just some of the ones my publishers have made for me to let readers know about my books.

As you can see, I have a variety and trust me, it wasn’t easy to get them spread out to show them without dropping them all. Some books may have one or more bookmarks made of woven ribbon sewn into the binding. Alternate materials for bookmarks are paper, metals like silver and brass, silk, wood, cord (sewing), and plastic. A bookmark is a thin marking tool, commonly made of card, leather, or fabric, used to keep track of a reader’s progress in a book and allow the reader to easily return to where the previous reading session ended.

Scraps of paper in stacks of books as bookmarks