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> Books don't even have a progress bar on them (at least physical ones don't yet)

I find the idea that books don't have progress bars to be very amusing. Have the author never looked at a book with a bookmark in it from the side? :)

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Clearly someone who hasn’t read a book lately! They are the physical embodiment of progress bars and badges of achievement once you finish them and put them on your shelf.

There is so much other media to consume, I don't ever have the desire to reread any of my books.

So the thing I unlock when I finish a book is a gift for someone else.

You don't even need a bookmark. Just open a book. It is a progress bar in itself.

My parents hated it when I just bent over the uper corners of pages. Still do, to mark progress, and to mark interesting pages for later reference in text books.

You might be interested in page points. They are little metals tabs folded over so you can slide them onto a page’s edge. I like them better than bookmarks because they point to the exact line where I stopped reading.

I've been making origami bookmarks since elementary school [1]. Recently I've been making them out of ephemera, e.g. old coupons, the receipt for the book itself.

[1] https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Origami-Bookmark

Librera Reader and FBReader have discreet progress bars you can set at the bottom of the screen which, when clicked/tapped, will take you to that place/chapter in the book!

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