Bookmarks

I have a dream. A dream that most people couldn't care less about. A dream that will still one day be realized. My dream is that one day I will have a bookmark for every book that I own. Admittedly, I own A LOT of books. In fact, I have issues finding places for the most recent books that I've purchased as I'm running out of bookshelf space, yet again. I used to be able to score free bookmarks from places like Borders or Barnes and Noble. They used to hand them out like water from a fountain, usually with some advertising of their latest best sellers. I still remember the Mitch Albom "The Five People You Meet In Heaven" bookmarks. Actually they were pretty pimp as bookmarks go. Nice, thick stock, big, multicolored, offset printing. A first class, free bookmark. You usedtacould just pick up a handful of them at the register. You know, like 10 for every book purchase. Those were wonderful times. These days, you can't even get a free bookmark even for the book you are currently buying, much less another book at home. The only place I reckon you can still get a free bookmark these days is the library. And they are quite sweet bookmarks by the way. Suburban Library Cooperative, I'm looking at them right now. Gigantic in fact. So big in fact that I use them as a guide for entering data into Quickbooks. The only problem is that they are one color, black ink. But they are still free, if only subsidized by my tax dollars. So basically I'm paying for them anyway, I may as well take my share. One day every book I own will have a bookmark in it, waiting for me to pick it up and begin reading once again from the place that I last left off, or at least marking an important reference point in the text that will keep me from having to search needlessly for the important information that I once knew but have forgotten only to learn again at the most opportune time in the most opportune way.