DOWNLOAD THE WORLD BOOKMARK DAY PLACARD
The World Bookmark Day (Woboda) is next Saturday! There are many people around the world we cannot reach over the internet. Please support us to make the World Bookmark Day (Woboda) known to as much people as possible. How? We have prepared a downloadable placard you see on the picture to the left. The file can be downloaded by clicking the Download File below. The print of the placard matches a notepaper in A4 or American letter size. Ask your local library, bookshop or coffee shop if they can pin the placard to their billboard or stick it to their window. That would be a great support for us, thank you for your help! If you send us pictures showing the placard in your library, bookshop, or coffee shop, we'll publish them on our homepage. Email us at: [email protected] Thank you! Another possibility is to upload the placard image on the left (right click the image and save it to your computer) to your instagram, facebook, twitter or whatever social platform you use. Thus you can spread the word and even ask your followers to use placard in their area. Thank you to all supporters! We hope to celebrate a fascinating first Woboda next Saturday. Don't miss to join our celebration party next Saturday, there will be a lot of events and award ceremonies. CLICK THE DOWNLOAD FILE BELOW
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We are proud to launch the very first World Bookmark Day 25 February 2017 - WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA) We celebrate the readers' little helper and the ever faithful companion of the books for 2000 years. You like, collect or produce bookmarks? Join us to spread the word about this new event! Bookmarks might have not received much attention yet. They even might have been ignored widely so far. A little like Cinderella. But we believe that this is a different story in which this quiet companion will no longer wait passively to be noticed. The bookmarks will receive attention and approval they deserve with a little help from their friends. Friends who love to use bookmarks while reading, friends who love to collect bookmarks, illustrate and produce bookmarks, who write blogs, articles, and books on bookmarks, friends who take care of them in libraries and museums, and some other unknown friends. Join us in our activities if you think you are a friend of bookmarks. The WOBODA is an excellent occasion to help bookmarks get the recognition they deserve. Join one of the activities listed below and help us. Please do spread the word about WOBODA and subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest news on the activities. You are surprised to hear that bookmarks are accompanying books for 2000 years already? Read more here. |
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Woboda bookmark by Sara Pregel
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Woboda bookmark by Moni
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Woboda Bookmark by Asim Maner
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On the left you see WOBO - the World Traveling Bookmark WOBO goes places on a mission to help her bookmark friends to get the recognition they deserve. The task of Wobo is to spread the word about the very first WORLD BOOKMARK DAY - on 25 February 2017. It is a very difficult task, actually, because only very few people know about this event yet. You can help Wobo a lot to accomplish her duty, if you wish. And how? Just download and print some copies of the Wobo bookmark. Then leave the bookmarks in a book, at a library or coffee shop or whatever place you think is fine for this purpose. The finders of your bookmarks are supposed to report their discovery on this page and do the same as you. We believe that Wobo could travel through all the world this way. What do you think? Will Wobo manage this? We are extremely curious how far Wobo will travel the world and which places she will go and how many new friends she will inspire to help her in keeping traveling and exploring. Join the mission and help Wobo! Thank you! YOU HAVE FOUND A WOBO? Yay! Tell us your story. Where are you from and where have you found a Wobo? What was your reaction? What do you like about bookmarks? What are you going to do with Wobo? Are you letting her go, or keep her and send a new Wobo on journey? We'd love to hear from you! Write an email to our webmaster, he'll put your answers on this page. Thank you. Attention: Don't click on the image for downloading (you get a small image in this case). Instead, click on the link "Download File"
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The raffle pot is filled with over 100 bookmarks at the start: you can see some of them on the picture to the left. These bookmarks have been donated by our sponsor Maner Consulting from Switzerland. We don't know, of course, how many bookmarks there will be in the raffle pot at the end. However, we will inform about the incoming bookmarks with a picture each time and the total number of bookmarks on the pile. Thus the development of the prize bookmarks can be followed on this page. Please do spread the word about the raffle, and invite your friends to join in. The winning prize will increase with the number of players. We wish good luck to all participants. |
Debrah Gai Lewis from Daylesford, Victoria, Australia joined the raffle with these 70 beatiful bookmarks and gets 7 raffle tickets, 3 January 2017
Aristomenis from Athens, Greece, submitted 100 beautiful bookmarks to the raffle pot and have got 10 tickets. We have now 410 pcs selected bookmarks in the raffle pot as per 8 November 2016!
Our member Ana Matos has donated this beautiful Globe Tour bookmark, handmade by her, as a gift to our bookmark raffle on 27 July 2016, thus making the raffle pot more attractive for the participants. Thank you very much, Ana! The bookmark features three metal pendants: a globe, a passport, and a suitcase. Ana has also a blog where other attractive handmade bookmarks can be ordered, Don't miss to check it at: Crafts for You
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THE THIRD ARTICLE ABOUT THE WORLD BOOKMARK DAY
Our member Regina Maciulyte is an ecologist from Lithuania and she is a versatile person. Besides her passion for collecting bookmarks, she is also an enthusiastic photographer who documents her country with great pictures. You can see some of her photos on her Instagram or on her blog. A publishing house in Lithuania has issued bookmarks with her pictures. Regina wrote an article about the World Bookmark Day (Woboda) on her blog which is written in Lithuanian language. For those of you who are not fluent in Lithuanian, the article can be read with a little help of Google translate, although subtle nuances of the text may remain hidden hereby. She introduces in her article the IFOB and its mission to her readers and highlights the activities people can join to support the Woboda. She also recommends to check out our Instagram. |
THE SECOND ARTICLE ABOUT THE WORLD BOOKMARK DAY
Aria Ding is an undergraduate on her way to obtaining a BA in English with Creative Writing, an avid reader and bibliophile who writes an inspiring blog about reading and book reviews: Snow White Hates Apples. She has been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award in 2016. Aria published now an excellent article about the very first World Bookmark Day (Woboda) on 25 February 2017 on her blog. The paper is simply perfect, rich of details and so motivating for the readers that one can imagine them jumping up and starting right away with one of the suggested activities. I could not picture myself a better way of writing about the Woboda. Congratulations, Aria, and many, many, many thanks for supporting us in our efforts to make bookmarks, the silent helpers of the readers, better known all over the world! With this paper Aria is participating in the competition for the best paper on Woboda and we cross the fingers for her to win the Excellence Award in the end. Don't miss to read Aria's fresh and inspiring paper here. |
THE FIRST ARTICLE ABOUT THE WORLD BOOKMARK DAY
Lea Kaib from Germany is an avid blogger writing very interesting book reviews on her blog (in German): www.liberiarium.de She is also a very popular YouTuber (liberiarium) with focus on book recensions. She is so successful with her book critics that several publishing houses engaged her on book fairs to report about their exhibition events. Lea has written now an article about the World Bookmark Day (Woboda) on her popular blog describing the manifold activities people can join in to support this event. Thank you, Lea! We hope that some her readers from Germany will pay attention to Woboda in future. We wish to thank her by sending some new readers her way: don't miss to check out her blog and YouTube channel. Lea is of course also the first candidate for the Excellence Award at the end for the best article written about Woboda: we cross our fingers for Lea! |
A book mark will rightly cause rage:
Who wants a book marked on a page? Thin cards printed or plain, Will mark without stain: So readers who use them are sage. by Dr. Bob Turvey, Bristol, UK July 9, 2016 |
When Johann Sebastian Bach
Once fancied a read in the dark, He said: “Goodness me! I find I can’t see; Where on earth is my glowing book mark?” by Dr. Bob Turvey, Bristol, UK July 9, 2016 |
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