Bookmarks: the unsung heroes of every great read. On World Bookmark Day we're celebrating with Copyright Agency's own bookmarks, featuring licensed art by Ethel Thomas, Albert Namatjira and Greedy Hen.
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Front: Since 1996 Vault of Midnight Ann Arbor - Detroit - Grand Rapids VaultofMidnight.com (A drawing of the Earth, but instead of the continents, you see a skull - which is reminiscent of the store's logo)
Back: (As a comic book. 5 panels) Panel 1: An alien observes an astronaut, with a ray gun out, who says : EARTH's P2: There is an explosion (BOOM). Griffin, the invisible man, says : FINEST P3: Cartooney rabbit and duck. It is a sunny day. Rabbit says : COMICS P4: A barbarian, who says : & P5: A character with a flaming skull in an astronaut suit walking in front of Vault of Midnight, with a bag (of comics), says : STUFF!
(Logo) Vault of Midnight Comic Books & Stuff www.vaultofmidnight.copm How do I earn XP? Scoop up the Book of the Month Complete the Sidequests ANY graphic novel purchase LEVEL UP
(Logo, with some geometric decorations)
Bookmarks from Vault of Midnight, in Ann Arbor.
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Front: (Logo) www.theparisreview.org
Back: (Logo) "If you get popular enough, they give you all the rope you want. You can hang yourself in Times Square if you want to, and I've done it." Stephen King, The Art of Fiction, Fall 2006
A bookmark from The Paris Review.
#WOBODA 2026, February 25.
Front: Buzz Lightyear
Back: Disney.Pixar Toy Story Powered by Artgame 3D
I remember holographic bookmarks as being quite popular when I was a kid. Maybe my sample was biased.
#WOBODA 2026, February 25.
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Front: Five warning signs, each with a number from 6 to 10.
Back: The Tranquility Gambit (FC2) © 2015 Chuck Palahniuk Look for the Fight Club precursor story, "Expedition," in the collection "Make Something Up"
A *giant* bookmark. Part of the marketing campaign for Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club 2: The Tranquility Gambit.
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Front: M Squirrel
Back: M Back of squirrel
Front: Squirrel Thank you! & Go Blue M
Back: Rose
University of Michigan bookmarks.
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Front: Thomas & Friends. Unncover the Mystery of Misty Island. Misty Island Rescue. Available wherever books are sold.
Back: Amtrak invites you to... Hop Aboard the Reading Express with Thomas & Friends. For more Thomas books and activities, visit www.randomhouse.com/kids
Once upon a time, a favorite of my son's.
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Front: NASA. Voyager. The interstellar mission. (A picture of Voyager) The heliopause. A region of space dominated by particles streaming from the sun ends and interstellar space begins. (A picture of the heliopause) A message from Earth on a phonograph record. (A picture of the record)
Back: Voyager. The Grandest tour. (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are depicted.) Jupiter. Voyager 1 - 5 Mar 79 Voyager 2 - 9 Jul 79 Saturn. Voyager 1 - 12 Nov 80 Voyager 2 - 25 Aug 81 Uranus. Voyager 2 - 24 Jan 86 Neptune. Voyager 2 - 25 Aug 89 Learn more. http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov
Voyager. I think I got this bookmark during a visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory about 20 years ago? (Apologies for the terrible quality.)
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Front: An apron with geese, for czasnagesine.pl
Back: recipes (one in English).
Bookmarks in Polish about goose meat (gęsina), which apparently is traditionally important. With a recipe for goose stuffed with apples.
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Front: "5-EUR-Blumengutschein zum Muttertag!" A 2004 bookmark from amazon.de "and you are done"
Back: "Flowers and more", and other promotions.
Once upon a time, when you bought a book through Amazon, they would send you a bookmark as well.
I think this one is also the only bookmark I have from Germany.
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Six Centuries of Type & Printing. Printer's Devil. A youth apprentice hired to sweep and melt lead. There is a drawing of a boy who, a manicule informs us, is "Mickey, the Printer's Devil, 1918".
Six Centuries of Type & Printing. Tutivillus. Scribes feared Tutivillus, the typo demon. Also known as Titivillus or Tytinlilus. There is also a drawing of the demon, walking away.
Bookmarks accompanying the "Six centuries of Type & Printing" book by Glenn Fleishman.
sixcent.info
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"Multi-reference bookmarks. 8 colorful page markers"
"The smart bookmark LastLine"
I first thought these bookmarks were gimmicky, but they have proved really useful when reading books full of endnotes and appendices.
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Bookmark from Tally Ho! Books, in Piedmont Ave. (Oakland) An elegant fox sitting on some books.
Many of the bookmarks I have are from bookstores. (Many of these, from extinct bookstores.)
This one is instead from one which just opened.
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Fans der gepflegten Lektüre feiern den 25. Februar als Welttag der Lesezeichen (engl. World Bookmark Day #WOBODA). 🥰📖 Ein Bericht. #25februar #kuriosefeiertage
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