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Welcome to our page WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA)
Updated 6 Mar 2026 check back for updates
​New: 19 new printable bookmark designs; 680 bookmarks in raffle; local events: Vilnius, Lithuania; Davis, California, USA: Corbera de Llobregat, Spain; Chojnice, Poland
  PRINTABLE BOOKMARKS- 23 | BOOKMARK RAFFLE- 680 WINNER: Michael Taffe | LOCAL EVENTS: 5
ASIM MANER AWARD WINNER: Jacek Hałuszkiewicz  | COLLECTION AWARD WINNER: n/a | AND MORE!
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Bookmarks from the last 10 years of World Bookmark Day

See also examples from previous years are in the Woboda Gallery. 
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Our very first bookmark designed for Woboda by founder Asim Maner 

​We are delighted to launch the TENTH annual World Bookmark Day.  Because this is our 10-Year Anniversary, we want it to be extra special.  See how you can contribute below. 

25 February 2026 - WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA)
We celebrate the readers' little helper and the ever faithful companion of books for 2000 years.

Do you like, collect or produce bookmarks? Join us to spread the word about this worldwide event!

​We continue to celebrate World Bookmark Day to bring attention to bookmarks, the quiet companion of readers. 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 (printable designs, raffle and more) and help us. Please do spread the word about WOBODA and subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest news on the activities.

Are you surprised to hear that bookmarks have accompanied books for 2000 years already? Read more here.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES
Join us with one of the activities listed below and be part of the World Bookmark Day
1. YOU ARE AN ILLUSTRATOR OR ARTIST? CREATE A FREE PRINTABLE BOOKMARK FOR THE WOBODA 2026
Submit a free printable bookmark design (uncompressed jpeg, 200 x 75 mm, RGB mode) for this page. Please add the following text anywhere on your design: 
  • World Bookmark Day (or just Woboda)
  • 25 February 2026
  • www.ifobookmarks.org/woboda.   
​Include Your Name - Your status (collector, artist, designer) from (your country) - your web site or social media.  You may also add this information to the design.  Thank you!
Free Printable Bookmarks for the World Bookmark Day
 How to use these bookmarks?

​​Download and print your favorite bookmark. Tip:  Copy the image into a Word (or other word processing) document and copy it several times to fit the page.  You can then print multiple copies onto card stock. 

Once you have a Woboda bookmark, keep one with you when you travel or go around and make a picture of the bookmark alone or together with you at different places.

Send us the pictures for publication here on this page per email: please do not forget to write the name of the place and your name or your nickname (see also point 2. below).
​Please respect the copyright of the artists: bookmarks are free to use for private purposes only. If you publish pictures of the bookmarks on internet, please do not remove the credits. Thank you.

Submitting artists:  Gintautas Deksnkys, Lithuania​; Janine Pompe, Dutch photographer; Marijke van der Velden, Dutch photographer; Rita Colognola, Dutch collector
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Are you a designer, artist, or illustrator?  Would you like to create a new design for World Bookmark Day?  Contact our webmaster.  

2.  JOIN OUR WOBODA CELEBRATION BOOKMARK RAFFLE
You like and collect bookmarks? Here you can win a huge lot of bookmarks from all over the world!

​For each 10 bookmarks you pledge to send, you'll get a raffle ticket. So, you are free to choose how many bookmarks you wish to send. Of course, your chances to win are higher the more tickets you have. On the World Bookmark Day - 25 February 2026 - the winner will be drawn by lot and he or she will get all the accumulated bookmarks. We expect that until the draw day the raffle pot will include a huge number of bookmarks, And they can be won by you!
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Example of how to photograph your bookmarks: stack them, fan them out
Please read the Requirements before sending your bookmarks.

​The bookmarks pledged by the winner of the raffle will be sent to a second place winner so that you don't receive back your own contributions to the raffle. 

See below for examples of ways to photograph your contributions:

Current status:
680 bookmarks are in the raffle pot as of 25 February 2026
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Donations:
  • Winner's choice of 30 bookmarks from: adult books, teen/young adult books, children's books, publishers, bookstores, or libraries from Laine Farley. (mailed 16 Mar 2026)
  • Marcus Rippel, Brazil, donation of 100 bookmarks (mailed 4 Mar 2026)
  • Tracey Allen, Australia, donation of 20 bookmarks (mailed dd mm yyyy)

Total number of donations: 150
Winner chooses 30 from these three groups (or tell us what kind you prefer and we may be able to create a custom group for you).  Bookmarks may vary from those in photos. 
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Children's books

Number of participants: 5
Number of bookmarks contributed by participants: 530

Number of raffle tickets:  53
Your chances are still very high to win this raffle!
Send your bookmarks photo to join and win the giant heap of bookmarks in the raffle pot!


The list of participants and their tickets:
  1. Michael Taffe, Australia, 80 bookmarks (tickets 1-8), 25 January 2026 (mailed 3 Mar 2026)
  2. Montserrat Casaponsa, Spain, 160 bookmarks (tickets 9-24), 1 February 2026 (mailed dd mm yyyy)
  3. David Friedman, CA, USA, 120 bookmarks (tickets 25-36), 18 February 2026 (mailed 10 Mar 2026)
  4. Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania, 100 bookmarks (tickets 37-46), 24 February (mailed dd mm yyyy)
  5. Liz Bartlett, UK, 70 bookmarks (tickets 47-53), 25 February (mailed  27 Feb 2026)
  
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Total number of bookmarks: 680 ; Total number of tickets: 53 ; Total of lucky numbers: ​nnn

Please read the process for determining the winner of the raffle.

🎁🎁🎁   The winning ticket number is 47! - This ticket belongs to the winner of the World Bookmark Day Raffle 2026    🎁🎁🎁
The winner is
Liz Bartlett. Special note: Liz requests that bookmarks go to the second place winner,
Michael Taffe, Australia Congratulations! 

The second place winner receives:
  • the bookmarks submitted by the winner to prevent the winner from getting his/her own bookmarks back.
  • other donations tbd ​
The second place winner is the participant next to the winner, as declared before.. This means:
🎁    The Second Place Winner of the Raffle is Michael Taffe   🎁 

RAFFLE NEWS

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 pledged. 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.

Photos, number of bookmarks, and participants will be listed here by date entered.
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100 bookmarks donated by Marcus Rippel, Brazil, 2025 raffle winner
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20 bookmarks from Tracey Allen, Australia
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80 bookmarks from Michael Taffe, Australia: 40 Booksellers; 10 Libraries, , 20 Charities, 10 Book title/author promotional bookmarks. 25 Jan
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80 bookmarks from Michael Taffe, Australia: 40 Booksellers closeup. 25 Jan
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40 travel themed bookmarks from Montserrat Casaponsa, Spain, 1 Feb 2026
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40 Spanish publisher bookmarks from Montserrat Casaponsa, Spain, 1 Feb 2026
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40 St. Jordi bookmarks from Montserrat Casaponsa, Spain, 1 Feb 2026
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40 die-cut bookmarks from Montserrat Casaponsa, Spain, 1 Feb 2026
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40 Bookstores, 30 Nature & Science bookmarks from David Friedman, USA 18 Feb 2026
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20 Art, 20 Spiritual, 10 Quotes bookmarks from David Friedman, USA, 18 Feb 2026
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100 bookmarks from Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania 24 Feb 2026
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70 bookmarks from Liz Bartlett, UK with some antiques and sets 25 Feb 2026

3.  MAKE A PICTURE SHOWING A WOBODA BOOKMARK AT A REMARKABLE PLACE
First, download your favourite free printable bookmark from above or produce your own WOBODA bookmark. Then, take the bookmark with you to various places you go. Take pictures of your Woboda bookmark at remarkable places and send them to us to display them here on this page. That's all you need. Join us to make WOBODA known throughout the world, thank you! 

We are curious to see at which cool places WOBODA bookmarks will pop up. - Contact our webmaster if you wish to send your picture (jpg files only): do not forget to write your name or nickname and the place where the picture is taken (country, town, and the spot, like Eiffel Tower, Shakespeare bookshop, North Pole, or town library. Instagram: @worldbookmarkday
Who has spotted World Bookmark Day bookmarks?
Send your pics to: ifobeditor(at)gmail.com.  

4.  LOCAL EVENTS:  Organize a Display and/or Bookmark Swap in Your Local Library or Bookstore ​
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Display at Bookmark Bookstore, Oakland, California, 2018
Just ask your local library to help celebrate World Bookmark Day! 
​As far as we know, only few libraries have organised bookmark swaps yet, and in most cases the initiative came from collectors. However, libraries are generally interested in hosting events and thus they are likely to be receptive for the idea of a bookmark making event, bookmark swap or a display in their rooms.

Offer to help in organizing the event and see what happens. It can be an exciting experience for you to discover other collectors in your area on this occasion.
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You can write us about a successful attempt, and we'll report about it here, if you wish also with some pictures. Such a swap report might encourage other collectors to try it as well. We are curious to hear from you. Please contact our webmaster for questions and submissions.
You can also ask libraries or bookstores if they would display bookmarks for World Bookmark Day.  You could print some of the designs on this page, make posters of copies of some in your own collection or use bookmarks from the library or bookstore.  There are many possibilities!

Another option:  Try to get an article published in a local magazine or newspaper. ​
1. "A Trace Between the Pages – Polish Bookmark of the Year 2025”, organized by Jacek Hałuszkiewicz Chojnice, Poland

“POLISH BOOKMARK OF THE YEAR 2025”
An event organized by the Asim Maner Bookmark Museum in Chojnice, together with Partners, with online participation of the international community International Friends of Bookmarks, and with the support of representatives of Polish libraries. Awards for thematic bookmark categories and special award categories were presented January 31, 2025 with a ceremonial Gala held at the Municipal Public Library in Chojnice on February 25, 2026. 
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A special surprise is that Andrzej Janik, a friend of Jacek's, composed a song about World Bookmark Day and bookmarks in general titled February 25 - Between Then and Now. LIsten to it below or on YouTube with video from the exhibit:  - English version  Polish version
As part of this event, Jacek  organized a large international bookmark exhibition, and the results of the competition for a bookmark commemorating the 750th anniversary of the founding of the city of Chojnice—of which Jacek is a co-organizer—were announced. There was a meeting with two bookmark authors from this competition. We showed that a bookmark has a “face—or a mother.”
To the libraries participating in the Gala jury deliberations, Jacek sent 500 bookmarks from Woboda, which he printed from the website.
[more information on the winners at the museum above for details)
​The categories include the following:
1. Educational Bookmark – promoting knowledge, science, education, and reading.
2. Nature Bookmark – inspired by nature, environmental protection, the world of animals and plants.
3. Publishing Bookmark – created by a publishing house, promoting books or authors.
4. Artistic Bookmark – an individual project by an artist or graphic designer.
5. Religious Bookmark – promoting moral values, spiritual messages, religious holidays, or important figures and places of worship.
6. Bookmark Series – a set of at least two bookmarks forming a coherent whole in terms of theme, graphics, or narrative. They may present successive elements of one story, different variations of one motif, a collection of characters, symbols, illustrations, or patterns designed as a complete set.
SPECIAL AWARDS:
1. Bookmark of the Year 2025 – Grand Prix
– selected jointly by the public and the international community of International Friends of Bookmarks.
2. Bookmark Manufacturer of the Year
– for a Polish bookmark producer who has stood out for quality, creativity, and promotion of bookmarks.
3. Bookmark Publishing House of the Year
– for a publisher that uses bookmarks in an exceptional way and promotes their idea among readers.
4. Bookmark Author/Designer of the Year
– for a creator whose designs stand out for originality and artistic vision.
5. Special Award – for lifetime achievement and contributions to Polish book bookmarks.
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Polish Bookmark of the Year (back)
2. Jen Cormier, Events and Outreach Coordinator, University of California, San Diego Library:
An Exhibit on bookmarks:  Bookmarks: The Constant Companion of Books for Over 2,000 Years, Jan 10–Mar 17, 2026, the Nest at Geisel Library, 2nd floor
A Bookmark Making event
Coordination with bookmarks made by the young students at the UC San Diego Preuss School
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3. Bookmark Display, Logos Bookstore, Davis, California, USA:  Phil Coleman and the Logos team who mount monthly displays at the bookstore mounted a display of bookmarks in books related to the subject of the bookmark during the week of February 23.  
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Kathy from the display team matches bookmarks to books.
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Sally from the display team installs the display background.
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The display window used IFOB bookmarks spelling out WOBODA above the books.
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Inside a table offers bookmark fans for customers.
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An inside view of the window.
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IFOB member Robert White from San Francisco, and store manager Phil discuss bookmarks.
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Manager Phil Coleman is happy with the results.
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Robert and Laine are impressed by the work of the display team.
4. Bookmark collectors’ meeting, Corbera de Llobregat near Barcelona: This edition will bring together four associations: the Associació de Col·leccionistes de Corbera, Mondopunt, El Troc – Association for the Promotion of Collecting, and the Federació Catalana d’Associacions de Col·leccionistes.

Mondopunts (Domènec Martinez Muñoz and Montserrat Casaponsa) has invited their collector friends, as they do every year, to make a bookmark for World Bookmark Day which will be posted on their MONDOPUNTS blog.  Those making a bookmark will receive a gift. 
5. Gintautas Deksnys presented his book "Talking Bookmarks" (the expanded second edition) on Thursday, February 26, 2026, during the Vilnius Book Fair, Lithuania. He also met with IFOB member Regina ​Mačiulytė and Vilija 
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Book editor Jonė Balšaitytė.
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IFOB members Regina Mačiulytė and Gintautas Deksnys
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IFOB members Vilija Jocienė and Gintautas Deksnys

5. ASIM MANER AWARD FOR PROMOTING BOOKMARKS
This  award, named in honor of our founder, Asim Maner, recognizes the person who has done an outstanding job of promoting bookmarks, either for World Bookmark Day or in general activities.  Tell us what you have done, send photos of the activities, and describe the impact it has had, in your opinion.  You may also submit comments from other people who are familiar with your work.  The winner will be chosen by the IFOB co-editors and possibly last year's winner of the Woboda raffle.  Submit your entry by February 20, 2026 to the webmaster. 
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The winner will receive:
  • ​​a copy of Essays on Bookmarks and Related Topics, by Frank X. Roberts or Asim Maner's paper on Earliest History of Bookmarks (mailed dd mmm yyyy).
The winner will also be featured in an article on the IFOB web site.
The winner for 2026 is Jacek Hałuszkiewicz  who has promoted bookmarks in the following ways:

• Created the online Asim Maner Bookmark Museum in Chojnice with  over 35,000 bookmarks, mainly Polish, but thanks to exchanges he has collected bookmarks from 44 countries to show what bookmarks look like around the world. It was named in honor of Asim Maner, the founder of International Friends of Bookmarks, and with the consent of his family.  https://muzeumzakladki.pl/
• Organized the "Polish Bookmark Gala 2025",a nationwide event with the participation of several large libraries. During the event, the Bookmark of 2025 will be chosen as well as the most interesting bookmark in several categories.
• Organized a large international bookmark exhibition as part of the Gala, and the results of the competition for a bookmark commemorating the 750th anniversary of the founding of the city of Chojnice—of which he is a co-organizer—will be announced.
• Nominated in the Dziennik Bałtycki competition (a daily newspaper of northern Poland) for “Personality of the Year 2025” for the bookmark exhibition and several other events that he organized in 2025.
• For World Bookmark Day, 2025, he submitted several printable bookmark designs, donated bookmarks for the raffle, and organized a bookmark making competition at his school, a field game with the support of the Chojnice Municipal Library and a podcast about the game, and an exhibit.  These activities attracted the attention of local media with an article, photographs and a video, and there was a cake in the shape of a book with a bookmark!
• Began writing a book titled “A History Written with a Bookmark”, a history of the Polish bookmark, based on his research in libraries and museums in Poland.
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​​Read more about the winner in a member profile tbd. 

6.  BOOKMARK COLLECTION AWARD
The winner is: no entries this year
This  award recognizes an outstanding collection based on the subject of the collection or the format of materials, whether the collection has been recognized by other organizations, or whether you have written about it or promoted it in some other way. The criteria to be considered include:
  • How substantial the collection is, whether in number and/or completeness
  • How extensive is the description and documentation of the collection
  • Whether there are publications, presentations, exhibits, or internet/social media activities to provoke recognition and reactions
The IFOB co-editors will decide the winner who will receive 
  • a certificate (mailed dd mmm yyyy)
  • special prize: a copy of Essays on Bookmarks and Related Topics, by Frank X. Roberts or Asim Maner's Earliest History of Bookmarks (mailed dd mmm yyyy).
  • other donations tbd
The winner will also be featured in an article on the IFOB blog.
Submit your entry by February 20, 2026 to the webmaster. ​
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Read about the last winner from 2025, Howie Schecter.

7.  DONATE TO PROMOTE THE WORLD BOOKMARK DAY

Your donations of prizes, bookmarks for the raffle, or money will be used to promote the World Bookmark Day. We would like to support the Asim Maner award for promoting bookmarks and any future contests. There are also mailing fees for the raffle and printing fees for printing downloadable bookmarks.  Even $5 is a fantastic donation for this purpose.  Please use the donate button, or contact the webmaster to donate prizes or bookmarks. 

If we get more donations as needed for the prizes, we'll use them to promote the World Bookmark Day with additional activities. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

8.  Join us as a sponsor if you are a person, company, or society with a relation to reading, books, and
​       bookmarks

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Sponsors can join us with a donation of funds to promote World Bookmark Day activities. We also welcome other possibilities of cooperation with our sponsors, including donation of bookmarks or other prizes. Sponsors will be portrayed on this page with their relation to reading, books and bookmarks, and with special activities initiated by them. For more information, please contact our webmaster.
Our Sponsors
Friends of the Davis Public Library, Davis, California, USA:  The Friends operate the Logos Books that benefits the library.  They have donated hundreds of bookmarks that will contribute to the raffle.  Thank you!  
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Further information about bookmarks and the World Bookmark Day

You may be surprised to hear that bookmarks have accompanied books for 2000 years. This is brand new information unveiled by the research work done by members of our community, the International Friends of Bookmarks (IFOB). Details are given in the report Earliest History of Bookmarks. Before this publication, it was thought that the earliest bookmarks were used in medieval ages in European monasteries.

There was a discussion about pros and cons of launching a World Bookmark Day in our community. As a result, we started this project on 23 April 2016. Details of Woboda activities can be found on our Blog: please click the category "World Bookmark Day" 

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