Cutout advertising bookmark from 1930s published by the Italian insurance company Compagnia Assicurazione di Milano
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Celebrated on 25 February 🔖 📖 📚
the NINTH annual World Bookmark Day (WOBODA) will be celebrated in 2025. Go to the Woboda page to see events and updates. 30 October 2024
the NINTH annual World Bookmark Day (WOBODA) will be celebrated in 2025. Go to the Woboda page to see events and updates. 30 October 2024
World Bookmark Day, 25 Feb 2025 Raffle
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Printable bookmark designs: (see examples from previous years in the gallery. Go to Woboda page to download). Submit yours any time for 2025.
Debrah Gai Lewis, Australia
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Member Profile: Liz Bartlett
Pullout bookmarks to make, illustrating children´s safety education in former East Germany (DDR)
submitted by Helga Moghaddam, 28 April 2023
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A new section, On Marking Books Redux, debuts with an essay on Books and Cards Worth Giving: Paul Elder Bookmarks . 5 April 2024
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An interview of the founder of Papilionaceous pure silk bookmarks by Lauren Roberts from 2008 has been discovered and added. February 2023
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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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Charting the Course of Celluloid Bookmarks by Laine Farley 20 October 2020;
updated 13 March 2021
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A History of Collecting Bookmarks - by Allison C. Meier, in Fine Books and Collections, Autumn 2023
Meier summarizes a brief history of bookmarks and quotes several collectors on their interests and reasons for collecting, including several IFOB members. She concludes: "A bookmark may last longer than the read itself, moving into other books, roving to new libraries, and hiding within the pages until maybe decades later it falls out again into the hand of a new reader, offering a trace of who held this book before." 20 September 2023 
Stuart Hudson's collection focusing on bookstores; photo by Hannah Hudson
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Japanese Antique Bookmarks
Toshio Toyoshima has published a book on antique or vintage Japanese bookmarks from the Meiji period to around the 1950s. Japanese antique bookmarks, which have been little known until now, have a unique view of the world that is quite different from that of the West. 26 Jun 2023 
"Japanese Antique Bookmarks“ 『ニッポンのアンティークしおり』 by Toshio Toyoshima 豊嶋利雄
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Georg Hartong's Bibliography updated 26 September 2024, and his index of TBS News updated 24 September 2024.
Two quotes from Gintautas Deksnys, Lithuania
- quote from the life of the philosopher Voltaire in A. Akimova's book "Voltaire":
"...a straw or a withered leaf between the leaves of the book was the only, albeit debatable, evidence for the compilers of the book that Voltaire read this book in the field or in the garden. By the way, folded corners and scraps of papyrus paper attached to the pages helped them: this is how Voltaire marked where he had stopped reading" (Alisa Akimova "Voltaire", Vilnius: "Vaga", 1984, p. 293).. Submitted 6 April 2024
- quote about the life of the writer Alexander Dumas in Dirk Husemann's "The Paris Novel Factory":
...she was engrossed in a book with four bookmarks sticking out, and he was engrossed in a newspaper. To "Mousquetaire" (Dirk Husemann "Die Romanfabrik von Paris", Köln: Bastei Lübbe AG, 2023, p. 81). (submitted 11 April 2024)
- quote from the life of the philosopher Voltaire in A. Akimova's book "Voltaire":
"...a straw or a withered leaf between the leaves of the book was the only, albeit debatable, evidence for the compilers of the book that Voltaire read this book in the field or in the garden. By the way, folded corners and scraps of papyrus paper attached to the pages helped them: this is how Voltaire marked where he had stopped reading" (Alisa Akimova "Voltaire", Vilnius: "Vaga", 1984, p. 293).. Submitted 6 April 2024
- quote about the life of the writer Alexander Dumas in Dirk Husemann's "The Paris Novel Factory":
...she was engrossed in a book with four bookmarks sticking out, and he was engrossed in a newspaper. To "Mousquetaire" (Dirk Husemann "Die Romanfabrik von Paris", Köln: Bastei Lübbe AG, 2023, p. 81). (submitted 11 April 2024)
Gintautas also submitted his own reflections and quotes 20 May 2024
A new gallery called Bookmarks Speak was inspired by Gintautas Deksnys to surround bookmarks with complementary images and provide a title that suggests the message carried by the bookmark. Very creative! 22 November 2022
I exchange paths between us and the stars from Gintautas Deksnys
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Life in a circle from Gintautas Deksnys
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Can you feel it - Spring from Gintautas Deksnys
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The Owl Gallery has new bookmarks 28 April 2023
From Gintautas Deksnys, Lithuania, carved wooden owl from the Philippines 28 April 2023
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Helga Moghaddam, Germany, made this bookmark out of the book cover “Ökonokomik, Humorous sides of economics, by Arno Sölter”. 7 April 2023
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Helga found in the book, attached as a personal bookmark this lovely owl, dedicated to Arno Sölter´s friends, colleagues and readers. 7 April 2023
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The Countries Gallery has seven handmade bookmarks from Uganda contributed by Helga Moghaddam 5 May 2023. She sent seven hand painted leather bookmarks from Uganda and two from Kenya. 27 July 2023
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The Bookmarks on Bookmarks Gallery has 4 new examples of humorous bookmarks featuring a stack of books with bookmarks peeking out, presided over by bookworms, a mouse and a turtle, all by Antioch Publishing from Laine Farley 27 February 2023
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Hand painted leather gazelle from Kenya from Helga Moghaddam
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Handmade bookmark from Uganda of giraffes from Helga Moghaddam
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Massai figures on fig tree bark bookmark from Helga Moghaddam
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Another cartoonish design with a bookworm on a stack of books from Laine Farley
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