"A bookmark is a thin marker, commonly made of paper or card, used to keep one's place in a book and so be able to return to it with ease. Other frequently used materials for bookmarks are leather, metals like silver and brass, silk, wood and fabrics. Many bookmarks can be clipped on a page with the aid of a page-flap."
Like any heavy reader, I accumulate book marks. I've never bought a book mark, at least never one that wasn't already inside a book. (I find odd things inside books) Some are from book stores, or for other book marketing like National Library Week. That pink one above is from a book store in San Bernadino, Beers in Sacramento, the Reading Well somewhere in Canada,another here is the Paperback Trader, a small New England chain of used book stores that no longer exists...
Then things get odd: train tickets, garage parking tags, photo negatives and a strip of birch bark I clearly recall peeling off a log on a beach for lack of any other material.. I do not recall later cutting it square but there it is, clearly so.
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