bookgazing | Weekly Geeks (Late)

This weeks WG is about bookmarks. Here’s a quick shot of part of my gigantic collection. Not only do I like to collect bookmarks you can buy, I’m also a big fan of free bookmarks from libraries and bookshops. My collection probably needs so cleaning out (do I really need five Bookmooch bookmarks?).

For some interesting discussion on boomarks visit the 'On Marking Books' column at Bibliobuffet. This week they’re talking about the stories of people finding bacon marking a place in library books.

For anyone who is interested my read books have found a new home. The library in my village could not accept them but happily another local library said they’d love to have any good quality books. I dropped them all off today, but they were rather surprised to see them and claimed they weren’t allowed to take donations. One woman said they could take them but they might end up at different libraries in the borough, which I said was fine. I left with that horrible, downcast feeling you get when you think you’re doing something nice but it turns out you’re actually just a crazy lady again (I got some odd looks from the library assistants). I won’t be doing that again.

Where do you take used books when charity shops don’t want them and posting them out seems nice, but a bit expensive?