An unexpected downside to ebooks

[ivyfic]

Back in seventh grade, I made a pact with myself to never start a book until I finished the last one. I only had one bookmark--in order to put it in a new book, I had to liberate it from my last. That first bookmark (a nametag from summer camp) met its match in Moby-Dick. It's still there, in the chapter on Whale taxonomy. But I tend to use bookmarks until I drop them on the subway or something (has actually happened).

The last five books I've read were all on my Nook. Now I want to go back to a physical book and I can't find my bookmark ANYWHERE. I know! I could use any scrap of paper! But I want to find my bookmark, dammit!

ETA: Found it! It was hiding in Samuel Pepys, which, twenty-year-old pacts with self aside, cannot be read all in one go.

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I know what you mean about the bookmark. I've hardly used it in a while but I had a leather bookmark that my mother had bought on her honeymoon. When I looked for it at Christmas (due to a planned trip) I couldn't find it.

Glad yours turned up!

BTW, was Pepys the one who finished all his entries "And now to bed"?

[ivyfic]

This is a collection of excerpts from Pepys's diary specifically about food. I don't know if he ends every entry with "and now to bed," but he seems to start every day with a hangover.