This week’s bookmarks are brought to you by the fabulous Fraggle, who sent them all the way from the north of England. Gibside and Wallington Hall are both heritage sites and I was thrilled to see that the National Trust still have these embossed leather bookmarks in their gift shops. Because what’s a nicer keepsake than a bookmark? I still have a bunch of them from my visit to the UK in the 1970s (see some from Scotland here), but I don’t think I was ever in Northumberland or Tyne & Wear.
Book: A History of Britain: The British Wars 1603 – 1776 by Simon Schama
Alex Good 
They go well with the Scottish ones!
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I have a few more old (1970s) English ones I’ll post too. Maybe they’re worth a lot of money now!
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Not that you’d sell them!
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Never!
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If only they’d perforated the bottom so you could pull off the little strips and have yourself nine mini-bookmarks!
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I think they’d be too small!
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Hard to credit, I know, but some people read paperbacks. : -)
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Not any more. Mmpb’s are no longer being produced. Get them while you can…
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This is unpleasant news. So what? Are second-hand paperbacks now going to be even more expensive because the format itself is “collectible”?
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No, it just means as they disintegrate, there will be no more replacing them.
So second hand bookstore now have a limited stock. which I don’t think will push prices up, except for the mmpb’s that lots of people want. But most of those people will have, or will make, the jump to digital. Ebooks are the functional equivalent of mmpg’s now.
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Functional maybe; hardly the aesthetic equivalent. Stupid world. : -)
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Yep, things keep on changing. And not necessarily for the better.
Personally, I much prefer ebooks over mmpb’s, but I suspect my love of tech is at play as much as anything 🙂
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Sounds like what happened to DVDs. I figured they’d go down in price as people moved to BluRay, 4K and streaming. But despite becoming a semi-obsolete technology they’ve actually gone up in price.
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That’s what I’m afraid of. I can sort of see it with vinyl, which is outrageously priced, but they now have to produce those discs specially. Of course they’re going to charge more for that. But a second-hand shop that now knows it is less likely to get replacement copies of books….I can see them charging more because of that.
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I really like those fringed leather ones. Won’t do me any good with my eReader, sadly.
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E-readers definitely had an impact on the bookmark business. You used to always be able to pick up free bookmarks at libraries and bookstores but almost never anymore.
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You liked a comment. Are you OK, do you have a fever, is the world ending?
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Honestly I didn’t know I did. Mouse slip. But I liked this one. 👍
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Now you are just toying with me.
That does it! After Greenland, Canada is next on the chopping block.
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Apparently Donald was offering $100,000 to every Greenland citizen to buy the place outright. I won’t come that cheap!
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What can Canada offer me?
Do I hear 200K?
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A bowl of poutine and a maple leaf toque.
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I think I’ll move to Greenland and see if I can get that 100K.
Do people still eat poutine? I thought it was outlawed as a health hazard or something.
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They eat lots and lots of poutine.
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28lbs?
I just threw up thinking about that much poutine.
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While I am not a high-volume book reader, I love me a good bookmark. These are great-lookin’ bookmarks.
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Thanks Bruce! I like ’em too!
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