page bender or bookmarker

when I was in my teens I used to follow my Mom and bend the page corners ... now that I'm paying for the books and I tend to collect books, I shudder at the thought of bending the covers and pages  .... for my softcovers I use a "hardback" book cover to protect them, and I always use a book mark to mark my spot

and I only use pencil to put my initial on the first page once I've read the book

I just hate reading a book with bent corners.

I'm a bookmark person too--especially since I took a paper conservation/repair workshop and learned how to repair bent corners, which was a pain!  Made me think "what if one day this book is an out-of-print classic and a collector has to undo my bent pages?"

Though I'm not sure how that makes sense when I still write my name on the first page in pen/marker...that's a lot more permanent than a bent page.  

*shuddering at the thought of bent pages!*

Great question! You have us all chatting about bent vs markers.

I use bookmarks--can't stand the thought of bending the pages.

Ha.  This question tickles my funny bone because hey, who needs a bookmark when you read a book in one sitting?  lol.  If I step away from a book for a moment, I make a mental note of the page number and return to the book within an hour max

However...  I started doing "fav scenes" as part of my reviews.  If I'm reading by my computer, I'll jot down a fav scene as I come across the scene and plug on with my reading.  But if I don't feel like typing it up, or if I don't want to settle down to 1 or 2 fav scenes early on in the book (hey, there might be better scenes later on!), I'll mark the pages.  I have a stack of unblogged books next to my compy, some of which have up to 10 little bits of paper or kleenex marking scenes that tickled me.  When I go through the book to review, I'll probably use some of the quotes in the review part, saying hey I liked what this meant for the plot, and I'll use two probably as fav scenes.

When lacking in paper/kleenex, I have bent pages, but only in the teeniest tiny little triangle at the bottom of the page.  My bends are measured in milimetres, not even half a centimetre at times.   (When I read library books, i sometimes come across pages that have been bent back almost right through the midsection of the page, and I always think, wow that was a lot of effort.  Did they have to be that obvious?  Are they blind to page bends and need to trumpet the spot they left off?)

I'm a bender.  I know, it's awful.  But I don't bend as much as I used to, honest.  See the thing was I could never find a bookmark when I needed one.

But now that I'm writing, there seem to be bookmarks everywhere.  From goody bags at workshops to books that come in the mailbox...I almost always have a bookmark now.  And when they are at hand, I use them.  So less bending going on these days.

Donna