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 here.
What's New
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A New Look for the New Year
We are in the process of changing our home page so you will see some experiments and different ways of presenting news and information.  Let us know what you think!  2 January 2020
211 total members from 38 countries; ​updated 5 March 2020
Celebrated on 25 February 2020 🔖 📖 📚
Raffle total: 826 bookmarks 22 February 2020
Happy World Bookmark Day!  Thanks to everyone who helped celebrate on 25 February 2020 and congratulations to winners.  Mark your calendars for next year. 🔖 📖 🎉 🎊 24 March 2020
Winners:  
Raffle:  Kerrie More, USA; second place Jonathan Xuereb, Malta
Asim Maner Award: Debrah Gai Lewis, Austratia
Congratulations!  
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Georg Hartong's Bibliography and his index of TBS News updated 5 March 2020
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"Storm Center" - Bookmarking a Movie 11 December 2019
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"Never Do That To A Book" by Anne Fadiman, republished in Slate 4 February 2020
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World Bookmark Day designs from 2017-2020 - 24 March 2020



​Argh Matey! It’s time to read a book. Try this fun set of printable pirate bookmarks to help you keep your pages in check (even more perfect if you use them along a pirate book).  In the section Especially for Children. 15 January 2020
The Trade Card Place has been added to our Links page in the Non-bookmarks section.  It is an excellent site for information on Victorian trade cards used to advertise American goods and has information on many of the same companies that produced bookmarks during this period.   12 January 2020