Cutout advertising bookmark from 1930s published by the Italian insurance company Compagnia Assicurazione di Milano
      
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International  Friends of Bookmarks (IFOB) is a community of bookmark lovers with members all over the world who are interested in bookmarks, such as passionate readers, bookmark collectors, librarians, illustrators, blog editors, product designers, bookshop owners, bookmark producers, and others. Read more about us & our mission and join us here.
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247 total members from 39 countries; ​122 on the Swap page; updated 14 June 2021
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Bookla, a Greek company, produces beautiful fabric bookmarks. 7 April 2021
 Member Debrah Gai Lewis has created a section on Bookmark Quotes and Bookmark Allusions on her Mark My Place web site.  The allusions were inspired by member Frank X. Roberts' chapter on "Is There a Bookmark in This Text" from his book St. Augustine’s Finger: Medieval Bookmarks and Related Topics.  7 April 2021
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See the range of bookmarks issued for the 1933/1934 Chicago World's Fair from Bill O's collection. 7 April 2021
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Member Man Wong has just published a book titled Bookmark Collection Notebook: A page of Life, Hong Kong and the World. 26 April 2021
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Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks by Laine Farley 20 October 2020; updated 13 March 2021
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Planted bookmark in Lithuania
Celebrated on 25 February  🔖 📖 📚 
Vilija Jocienė celebrates in Lithuania with "planted" bookmarks.  25 February 2021
Carole Lemieux designed a special bookmark for Woboda. 24 February 2021
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Woboda bookmark by Carole Lemieux
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Printable Woboda bookmarks from Jane Schneider
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The Bookmark Society has provided pdf copies of the first 7 Occasional Papers on our Bibliography page. 14 August 2020
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Georg Hartong's Bibliography updated 23 April 2021, and his index of TBS News updated 19 December 2020
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Member Profile: Randy Whiteman from Canada 4 March 2021
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Member Profile Clemens Posten, Germany, 7 May 2020
The Owl Gallery has eight new bookmarks from Germany and five new celluloid examples. 28 January 2021
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New examples from Canada and Germany in the Countries Gallery. 1 February 2021