Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's Collection of Odd Things Lost Between the Pages

About this book

Its happened to all of us: were reading a book something interrupts us and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. It could be a train ticket a letter an advertisement a photograph or a four-leaf clover. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library a flea market other peoples bookshelves or to a used bookstore. But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell? By day Michael Popek works in his familys used bookstore. By night hes the voyeuristic force behind www.forgottenbookmarks.com where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store. Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popeks most interesting finds. Sure there are actual bookmarks but there are also pictures and ticket stubs old recipes and notes valentines unsent letters four-leaf clovers and various sordid heartbreaking and bizarre keepsakes. Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers lives that they never intended for us to see.