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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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Member News
240 total members from 39 countries; ​122 on the Swap page; updated 19 March 2021
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Featured Bookmark Producer
Featured in Quotes
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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

World Bookmark Day Latest News
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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

Bibliographies
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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 and his index of TBS News updated 19 December 2020
Latest Blog Post
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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
Featured in IFOB Publications
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Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks by Laine Farley 20 October 2020; updated 13 March 2021

Featured Gallery
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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



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  • Home
    • News from 2019
  • About
    • Member News
    • Contact
    • Site Map
  • Blog
  • Bookmark Swap
    • Raffle
  • WOBODA
    • WOBODA 2020
    • WOBODA 2019 >
      • WOBODA 2018
      • WOBODA 2017
      • Wobo on World Tour 2016
  • Gallery
    • Gallery Page 3 - New Year's
    • Gallery Page 4 - Bookmarks on Bookmarks
    • Gallery Page 5 - Care of Books
    • Gallery Page 6 - Owls
    • Gallery Page 7 - Woboda Bookmarks
    • Gallery Page 8 - Countries
  • Library
    • Reading Room
    • Book Reviews
    • Bookmark Quotes
    • IFOB Publications >
      • Earliest History of Bookmarks
      • Diamond Registration Marks on British Bookmarks
      • World Literature Classics
      • Holiday Haunts Bookmarks of the Great Western Railway
      • Reprints of the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games Bookmarks
      • Fascinating Bookmarks
      • Traditional Costumes of Countries - A bookmark Series by Rowohlt Verlag
      • Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks
  • Bibliographies
  • Workshop
  • Events
  • Links
  • Bookmark Producers
  • Shop