Forgotten Bookmarks: The Secret Life of Second-Hand Books via Brain Pickings
From actual bookmarks to photographs, ticket stubs, lists, scribbled recipes, children’s drawings, birth certificates, four-leaf-clovers, unsent love letters, and countless other funny, heartbreaking, and odd ephemera, this scrapbook of Popek’s most intriguing finds opens a rare window into the private lives of anonymous strangers through snippets of their life stories.
Something about this really appeals. Recording the stuff found inside books, against the books, and then letting the books go on their merry journey onwards to have new bookmarks left in them.
