![]() 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. Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers' lives that they never intended for us to see. Forgotten Bookmarksis a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. Forgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. ![]() By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store. But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell? By 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. The author, Michael Popek grew up in the world of books. ![]() ![]() It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. Forgotten Bookmarks is such a neat concept, a great idea for a book. 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. ![]()
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