No, I’m not referring to the electronic kind of bookmarks, I’m referring to the things that you put in…well…books.

For the longest time, I’ve been without a real bookmark. I’ve generally used scraps of whatever paper I had lying around at the time. I wasn’t really happy with this but I could never find bookmarks that weren’t made for girls/kids/over the top ugly.

I managed to buy one at Barnes and Noble, but now that I’ve used it for a while I don’t really like it as much as I though I would. The main problem with the bookmark is that there is only one of them and if you look at my list of stuff that I’m reading, you’ll see that I’m reading lots of books at a time. One bookmark, a dozen books; doesn’t add up. The other problem that I have with the bookmark, is that it’s too thick. While being quite neutral (not too girly – apparently only girls read books) and stylish (it’s black leather with the kanji for wisdom on it in red metallic ink), it’s a bit too thick for my tastes.

Now normally, I’m not really an arts and crafts type of dude, but somehow I made my way to fabiosirna.com and checked out the post DIY – Paper Bookmarks. As soon as I saw them, I dug them. The bookmarks are really simple to make and basically free (all you need is paper and a printer (having a color printer is better but it’s not needed)).

Once you print them out, just cut and fold and you have yourself functional and cool bookmarks.

Now I can have a bookmark for each book without looking like a slob.