![]() ![]() ![]() Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers' lives that they never intended for us to see. 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. It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot. By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store.įorgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. Forgotten Bookmarks: Switzerland, 1876 Michael Popek Contributor Booked Contributor Group Follow Jun 2, 2010,01:08pm EDT This article is more than 10 years old. Buy a cheap copy of Forgotten Bookmarks: A Bookseller's. ![]() But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell?īy day, Michael Popek works in his family's used bookstore. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library, a flea market, other people's bookshelves, or to a used bookstore. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. ![]()
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