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What is a bookmark

Bookmarks are a kind of paper, electronic, plant leaves, metal made of reading with the label.

Bookmarks are used to inscribe the title of a book and are usually affixed to the upper left corner of the front cover of an antique book, sometimes with the number of volumes and the name of the person inscribing the bookmark as well as marking where the book has been read. Bookmark is to record the progress of reading, and clip in the book of the small sheet.

With the development of the network era, and derived from the electronic bookmarks, etc., in order to record the progress of reading and experience. In order to mark the place of reading and record the progress of reading in the book and clip the small piece of paper, celluloid, ceramics, etc. made.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks picture random, a wide range of materials, even a used train ticket, airplane tickets can be used as bookmarks. In addition to the graphic content, artistic bookmarks are often innovative in material and shape. Bookmarks are more convenient than folded books and other page numbering methods, and the damage to the book is lower, which is a good way to remember the page number. Bookmarks in addition to the use of paper production, but also can be used in high-quality pure copper, zinc alloy raw materials, sand nickel-plated, pad printing, gold-plated lacquer, two-color plating, nickel-plated enamel, nickel-plated inlays and other crafts from the exquisite.

This is known as metal bookmarks, is an innovation in the development of bookmarks. When the temple fair, you can see a lot of face metal bookmarks, that represents the traditional Chinese culture. As for the content of an ancient book, it often consists of several parts, such as preface, catalog, general rules, main text, and treks. Reading the preface and trekking, checking the text and the word "taboo" is very important for identifying the version of the ancient books. In addition, the ancient books at the end of the volume or volume after the preamble, often engraved with a sign indicating the name of the publisher, engraving age, which is also an important basis for version identification.