Found my 100th forgotten bookmark this morning

It was a pressed four-leaf clover in a 1958 copy of 'The Once and Future King'. I've been keeping a little log of these finds for about two years now, and hitting that round number felt like a quiet, personal win. What's the highest count anyone else has reached?

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henderson.oscar1mo ago

A hundred forgotten bookmarks? Sounds like you're the main reason those books are out of shape. That's a serious collection.

jamesm381mo ago

Maybe they're just saving some pages as souvenirs at this point. A hundred bookmarks sounds more like a hobby gone wild than actual reading.

cameronn621mo ago

the_linda said it's not about the bookmarks but the stories behind them, and that's exactly right. But what I want to know is, how do you even FIND these things without just flipping through every book you own? I have a box of old paperbacks from thrift stores and my grandparents' house, and I KNOW there's stuff in there, but going through them page by page feels like way too much work.

the_linda1mo ago

Oh wow, that's actually really cool! I read somewhere once that Victorians used to press flowers in books as a way to save memories, kind of like how we take photos now. A four-leaf clover from 1958 is a whole different level of treasure. I think hitting 100 of those little time capsules is impressive, not a problem at all. Some of us just like finding little pieces of history hiding between pages, you know? It's not about the bookmarks themselves, it's about the stories behind them.