I’m not sure what the average amount of time commonly spent on thinking about bookmarks is; but I feel confident in saying I’ve done more than your average amount of thinking about bookmarks and feel like they could use improvements!
For starters, I like the idea of my oversized books having oversized place-holders. Why are bookmarks all so short and narrow?? I like a longer, wider bookmark for my journals and sketchbooks that allow me to find my page just like a satin ribbon (called an “XactoPage” by the way) would. I also like seeing little pieces of art or inspiration tucked away into pages of a book and forgotten about for awhile - like when using them in cookbooks. Depending on the book and bookmark, new narratives and ideas start to form - finding the same bookmark next to images or text on one page can inspire ideas from the combinations Serendipity presents. One can re-visit the same book, with the same bookmark, on a different page and have an entirely different confluence of ideas! I could go on and on but this is time I could be making more bookmarks!
