Obsolete things that I miss

[nwhiker]

Not totally obsolete, of course, but what with 90% of the books -wait, I can calculate that- make that 89.89% of books I read last year being e- or audio books, I don't turn a lot of page. 9 books worth, most of those graphical novels, out of 89 books read.

What I miss?

Bookmarks.

I loved -love- bookmarks. I rarely had "official" ones, but pieces of found carboard, boarding passes and train tickets, postcards, a few rectangles cut from greeting cards, things like that.

Never intentional, always found, bits of carboard falling into the role of bookmark as I needed them.

Used for a book or two, put away somewhere, usually between two books on a shelf, to be discovered or retrieved later.

I miss that. I miss going through my little pile of found cardboard and picking one for a given book.

I have a physical book right now and I could use a bookmark, but umm... I can't remember between what books my stash is! I remember moving it probably over a year ago, because it was interfering with my putting something away and I don't feel like going through my shelves to find where I put it right this moment. They'll turn up.

In the meanwhile, I'm looking around for a new suitable piece of cardboard for the paper book I'm reading right now.