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The humble flag you plant on page 87, vowing to return, then never do.
means A marker—physical or digital—placed to record a spot you want to find again, whether in a book or a web browser.
from A plain compound of "book" and "mark," both Old English (bōc and mearc, the latter related to a boundary or sign). The literal sense—a ribbon or slip marking your place—came first; the digital meaning, a saved web address, was borrowed wholesale when browsers arrived in the 1990s and needed a familiar word for the same simple act of saying "keep this for me."
- medieval cords
- Monks sewed ribbon markers into manuscripts centuries ago
- life expectancy
- Most outlive the book they were saving
- deadliest rival
- The folded corner that scandalizes book lovers everywhere
- browser cousin
- Digital bookmarks rot into broken links over time
- odd treasures
- Librarians find cash, bacon, and razor blades inside books
for instance
pocket — read-it-later service launched 2007, lets users save articles and web pages to read offline
digg — social news aggregator founded 2004, users bookmarked and voted on web stories