Like I was never a bookmark user, mostly because I would lose them, so I would just dog-ear my pages (top corner for marking my place, bottom corner if there was a quote or something else on the page I wanted to talk about later). To be clear, I don’t think this is a bad thing, if that’s what you do that’s cool. But like, sometimes I would come to a book that was brand new or just so special to me that I couldn’t make myself dog-ear so then I’d just have to try and remember where I was because I never had a bookmark…

But now… I am officially a bookmark user! And I have to say, it makes reading feel somehow more special? It’s so aesthetically pleasing to use a bookmark. It’s like drinking tea out of a cup and saucer just for the Aesthetic and the little clink sound when you set the cup down. (Who does that? Not me, never heard of that…) And of course since I’m not dog-earing I’ve started using little sticky tags to mark quotes and sections I want to consider later. (Also aesthetically pleasing, hello nerd aesthetic.)

I know this is a really silly thing to make a whole post about, but to be honest I’m stalling a bit and anyway where else could I announce that bookmarks make me feel special without being stared at like a weirdo?