Welcome to our page WORLD BOOKMARK DAY (WOBODA)
Updated 23 January 2025 check back for updates
New: Participant entry #4 of 30 bookmarks to raffle. Local event in Poland
New: Participant entry #4 of 30 bookmarks to raffle. Local event in Poland
PRINTABLE BOOKMARKS- 9 | BOOKMARK RAFFLE- 970 - WINNER: tbd | LOCAL EVENTS: San Diego, USA, Lithuania, Spain
ASIM MANER AWARD WINNER: tbd | COLLECTION AWARD WINNER: tbd | AND MORE!
ASIM MANER AWARD WINNER: tbd | COLLECTION AWARD WINNER: tbd | AND MORE!
@liberiarium Heute ist der World Bookmark Day (WoBoDa)! Die International Friends of Booksmarks haben sich etwas ganz Besonderes ausgedacht: sie widmen den heutigen Tag dem Lesezeichen! Auf ihrer Website wird es deshalb heute Events, Awards und noch viel mehr geben. Auch ich habe dem Lesezeichen eine kleine Grußbotschaft geschickt - diese könnt ihr euch auf meinem YouTube-Kanal ansehen □
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See also examples from previous years are in the Woboda Gallery.
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We are delighted to launch the NINTH annual World Bookmark Day 25 February 2025 - 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
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 2025
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 2025
- www.ifobookmarks.org/woboda.
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: [name], [city], [country]; Ella Watkinson, North Yorkshire, UK; Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Chojnice, Poland; Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania
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: [name], [city], [country]; Ella Watkinson, North Yorkshire, UK; Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Chojnice, Poland; Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania
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1. Ella Watkinson, UK. This design is inspired by her love of leaving the handprinted bookmarks that she makes for people to find in little free libraries around her local area
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2. Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Chojnice, Poland: World Bookmark Day will be held for the first time in his city. He says that this animal is a symbol of the city in the city's coat of arms. It is an extinct species that lived in Poland for a long time.
zool. Bos primigenius , an extinct species of mammal of the bovid family. In Pomerania it is often in various coats of arms of cities. |
Ella Watkinson, UK
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Attention: Don't click on the images for downloading (you get a small image in this case). Instead, click on the link "Download File"
3. Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania: four designs to remind us that spring is on the way.
Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania
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Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania
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Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania
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Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania
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Attention: Don't click on the images for downloading (you get a small image in this case). Instead, click on the link "Download File"
Are you a designer, artist, or illustrator? Would you like to create a new design for World Bookmark Day? Contact our webmaster.
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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 2025 - 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! |
Example of how to photograph your bookmarks: stack them, fan them out
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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:
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:
970 bookmarks are in the raffle pot as of 23 January 2025
Donations:
Total number of donations: 550
970 bookmarks are in the raffle pot as of 23 January 2025
Donations:
- Winner's choice of 30 from: adult books, teen/young adult books, children's books, publishers, bookstores, or libraries from Laine Farley. (mailed dd mm 2025)
- Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Poland, donation of 70 bookmarks, mostly publishing from Poland, 28 Oct 2024 (mailed dd mm 2025)
- Montserrat and Domènec Martinez, Mondopunts, Spain, donation of 30 puzzle bookmarks and 50 from NORMA Comic publishing house. (mailed dd mm 2025)
- Richard Smith, Tennessee, USA, donation of 75 bookmarks (mailed dd mm 2025)
- Tracey Allen, Australia, donation of 45 bookmarks from bookshops, libraries, schools, publishers, Australian companies and organisations as well as publishing industry awards (mailed dd mm 2025)
- Rita Colognola, The Netherlands, donation of 50 bookmarks related to books, publishers, bookshops, book fairs, libraries etc., but also some from other countries/topics (mailed dd mm 2025)
- Chan Mohney, USA, donation of up to 200 bookmarks, tbd.
Total number of donations: 550
Winner chooses 30 from these groups. We have received a large donation from the Friends of the Davis Library, Davis, CA, USA. Tell us what kind you prefer and we may be able to create a custom group for you, e.g., organizations, handmade, religious, places, etc. Photos are examples of what you can receive..
Adult books
Bookstores
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Children's books
Libraries
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Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Poland, 70 bookmarks from publishing in Poland
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Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Poland, 70 bookmarks from publishing in Poland
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Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Poland, 70 bookmarks from publishing in Poland
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Montserrat and Domènec Martinez, Mondopunts, Spain, donation of 30 puzzle bookmarks
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Montserrat and Domènec Martinez, Mondopunts, Spain, donation of 50 from NORMA Comic publishing house
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Richard Smith, USA donation, part 1
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Richard Smith, USA donation, part 2
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Richard Smith, USA donation, part 3
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Tracey Allen, Australia, donation of 45 bookmarks
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Rita Colognola, The Netherlands donation of 50 bookmarks
Number of participants: 4
Number of bookmarks contributed by participants: 420
Number of raffle tickets: 42
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. Meir Muller, South Carolina, USA: 60 bookmarks (tickets 1-6)
2. Marcos Rippel, Brazil: 300 bookmarks (tickets 7-36)
3. Shawn Whalen, USA, 30 bookmarks (tickets 37-39)
4. Roser Olmos Gonzalez, Spain, 30 bookmarks (tickets 40-42)
Total number of bookmarks: 970 ; Total number of tickets: 42 ; Total of lucky numbers: tbd
Please read the process for determining the winner of the raffle.
Number of bookmarks contributed by participants: 420
Number of raffle tickets: 42
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. Meir Muller, South Carolina, USA: 60 bookmarks (tickets 1-6)
2. Marcos Rippel, Brazil: 300 bookmarks (tickets 7-36)
3. Shawn Whalen, USA, 30 bookmarks (tickets 37-39)
4. Roser Olmos Gonzalez, Spain, 30 bookmarks (tickets 40-42)
Total number of bookmarks: 970 ; Total number of tickets: 42 ; Total of lucky numbers: tbd
Please read the process for determining the winner of the raffle.
🎁🎁🎁 The winning ticket number is tbd! - This ticket belongs to the winner of the World Bookmark Day Raffle 2025 🎁🎁🎁
The winner is tbd . Congratulations!
The winner is tbd . Congratulations!
The second place winner receives:
- the bookmarks submitted by the winner to prevent the winner from getting his/her own bookmarks back.
- Regina Mačiulytė, Lithuania donation of bookmarks from the Vilnius book fair from Nieko rimto publisher
The second place winner is the participant next to the winner, as declared before.. This means:
🎁 The Second Place Winner of the Raffle is tbd 🎁
🎁 The Second Place Winner of the Raffle is tbd 🎁
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.
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 listed here by date entered.
Meir Muller, 30 bookmarks on love of reading 28 Oct 2024
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Meir Muller, 30 bookmarks on love of reading 28 Oct 2024
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Shawn Whalen, USA, 30 bookmarks, bookstores, libraries 22 Jan 2025
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Marcos Rippel, Brazil, 300 bookmarks, most from bookstores 15 Jan 2025
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Shawn Whalen, USA, 30 bookmarks, bookstores, libraries 22 Jan 2025
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Roser Olmos Gonzalez, Spain, 10 from publishers, 23 Jan 2025
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Roser Olmos Gonzalez, Spain, 10 tourist bookmarks, 23 Jan 2025
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Roser Olmos Gonzalez, Spain, 10 made from her bobbin lace work, 23 Jan 2025
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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
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.
Send your pics to: ifobeditor(at)gmail.com.
4. LOCAL EVENTS: Organize a Display and/or Bookmark Swap in Your Local Library or Bookstore
Display at Bookmark Bookstore, Oakland, California, 2018
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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 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. 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.
Another option: Try to get an article published in a local magazine or newspaper.
1. Scott Paulson, Exhibits and Events Coordinator, University of California, San Diego Library is planning:
- An Exhibit on bookmarks: title and dates tbd, Geisel Library
- A Bookmark Making event
- Coordination with bookmarks made by the young students at the UC San Diego Preuss School
2. Gintautas Deksnys and Vilija Jociene, Lithuania will be organizing three meetings-creative exhibitions in the cities and towns of northern Lithuania, where Gintautas will present his book to the public and give it to local libraries and individuals. During this meeting, they plan to establish a bookmark society. Gintautas was also invited to present his book at the Vilnius Book Fair.
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3. Domènec Martinez and Montserrat Casaponsa, Mondopunts, Spain are planning the following:
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Meeting and bookmark exchange near Barcelona
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4. Jacek Hałuszkiewicz, Chojnice, Poland, Bookmark Making and Exhibition
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Woboda bookmark by Tatiana Michałowska, Chojnice, Poland
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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, 2025 to the webmaster.
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, 2025 to the webmaster.
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The winner will receive:
The winner for 2025 is tbd who has promoted bookmarks in the following ways:
Read more about the winner in a member profile tbd. |
Read about last year's winner, Gintautas Deksnys
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6. BOOKMARK COLLECTION AWARD
The winner is: tbd 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:
Submit your entry by February 20, 2025 to the webmaster. |
Read about last year's winner, Howie Schecter.
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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! |
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8. Join us as a sponsor if you are a person, company, or society with a relation to reading, books, and
bookmarks
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.
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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 donated a large group of bookmarks found in donated books. Some of these will be in the raffle, and possibly some will be given to award winners. Thank you!
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"
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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