One click and there I was, instantly intrigued by this book about things left in books. The title of “Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller’s Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages” made me pause. Books, whether on actual or virtual shelves, always get my attention, so, I scrolled through the book jacketed recommendations. They seem to know all my tastes in literature and music and even some things I didn’t know I was interested in.Īs I was sipping a steamy cup of tea this morning, there were my A-friends with a whole slew of books they knew I would love. Hi, Penny! We have just the books you are looking for – and they do. By-gosh-by-golly, there are so many emails from them I couldn’t want for more, AND they call me by name. Sometimes they email me more than once in the wee hours of the morning, on the weekend, during a holiday. He’s found everything from screws to cheese soufflé recipes.My good friends at Amazon are so nice. Forgotten Bookmarks, a website run by bookseller Michael Popek, documents all of the objects forgotten in books. Twitter isn’t the only place where you can find records of forgotten objects in books. I have experienced the gnawed fried-chickenleg bookmark and never want to again.
I thought I had seen it all when I thought I had seen it all when a patron left a broccoli floret in book at my old job.
Everything from banana skins, florets of broccoli, and a nibbled fried chicken leg have been returned to branches all around the world. Librarians from around the world responded to Holmes’s tweet with their own records of returned objects.
Not reported in the tweet, but the branch has received three returned books with the same slices of cheese. Author and librarian Anna Holmes took to Twitter earlier this month.ĭearest patrons, PLEASE stop using cheese as a bookmark. Everything from Kraft American cheese singles to circular saw blades have been found in library books and they’ve had enough. They are sick and tired of their patrons using perishables and other oddities as bookmarks.
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