Like the time I found that someone had used a piece of bacon
as a bookmark in a library book???

Working in a second hand bookshop I enjoy looking at the things
people use as bookmarks. It's a bit like the Amazon "if you liked
this you might also like..." system: if you use the information
leaflet from a packet of blood pressure medication as a bookmark,
it's likely to be a James Patterson, and if you put a leaflet in
a Wilbur Smith it's likely to be for diabetes pills... (In fact
we don't get a big enough sample to do that, but the idea is nice).

Air tickets are among the commonest bookmarks. Completely unsurprising
conclusion: all airport bookstalls sell the same sort of stuff. But
kudos to the Bangkok airport bookstall for seeing the sales potential
of "Forget You Had a Daughter".

Erotic letters are routine. Once got an empty blister pack of Viagra
but in a book that didn't fit at all, like a gardening manual.

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