I figured I had to celebrate my one-hundredth bookmark post with something special. So a couple of weeks ago some friends of mine came back from a trip to Newfoundland. Knowing that my last dog was a Newf named Kylie (here she is in a snowstorm), in addition to picking me up a bookmark they also brought this little cutie back. So say hello to Kylie Too!
Alex Good 
That’s so nice of your friends! Love the picture of your doggy in the snow too.
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Newfs like the cold!
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Not surprised with that thick fur coat! Miserable in the heat though or did you shave him for summer?
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I never shaved mine, but have heard of people who do. Mostly they stay inside all day lying on top of the cold air vents. They do suffer in the heat and I hate to see it but some short haired dogs (the ones with the pushed-in faces) actually have it worse I think.
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Man, 100 already? Where does the time go?
Does K2 have a saddle? Mr Zip is wondering if she could be a wardog?
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Newfs are water rescue dogs! Among other things. But definitely not war dogs. They’re for lovin’!
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Really? I would have thought all that fur would have weighed them down. Or is that what keeps them warm in the water so they don’t mind it?
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Yeah, it’s cold in the North Atlantic! Plus the hair apparently has water-resistant properties.
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If you read every book in rotation one chapter at a time, how many bookmarks do you think you’d “need”? Even with all the big nonfiction books you go through, what do you think — maybe 30 or so?
This isn’t a comment on the size of your collection, by the way, it’s just an interesting (to me) thought.
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Well, I don’t *use* any of the bookmarks in my collection. I use envelopes as bookmarks (I still get a fair bit of mail so these pile up). They’re perfect because I can write notes on them, which I do a lot, and then throw them out.
So is the question how many books do I have on the go at one time, with bookmarks in them? I think 30 sounds about right. But I have a big pile of envelopes so I’m in no danger of running out.
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No, I was just thinking that even if you had ten thousand books, in my scenario you still wouldn’t need that many bookmarks (since you’d recycle them as you finished each book and started a new one), and that the upper limit is probably not too far from 30. Cause that 10-chapter book would average against that 50-chapter tome.
And I don’t know how you people do it, reading multiple books at a time. No one watches movies that way and to me it’s pretty much the same thing. Although, now I think about it, what was school but doing exactly that? Must be an education vs. entertainment sort of thing….?
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I don’t know how weird I am in my reading habits. I like to have a bunch of books on the go because sometimes I’m in the mood for one sort of thing and another time for something else. Then I have books that I think of as being on a fast track, so I’ll finish them in a few days. This is often for books I’m reviewing. And then there are books that are on a slow or really, really slow track. They may take me months or even years to get through because I just pick them up and put them down whenever. That’s where having a bunch of notes helps because when I go back to them I can look at the envelope and see what I was flagging as important.
But everyone is different.
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