How To Use a Kindle As a Bookmark

Artist Rossetti Rogers posted a picture of her mother using a Kindle as a print bookmark on Twitter, turning a simple photograph into an online literary phenomenon. We've collected some of our favorite responses below...

  1. CAN WE ALL TAKE A MOMENT TO APPRECIATE MY MOTHER USING A KINDLE AS A BOOKMARK instagr.am/p/WxGDicmT9b/
  2. Of all the people to become mildly internet famous, I should have known it would be my mother.
  3. @rossmonstr Perhaps she thinks that is how you upload a book, the kindle sort of absorbs it overnight. lol
  4. MT“@rossmonstr: MY MOTHER USING A KINDLE AS A BOOKMARK Instagr.am/p/WxGDicmT9b/” - I enjoy opening letters with the sharp edge of my iPhone.
  5. Thanks, @rossmonstr, for sharing your mother's innovative Kindle usage with the world: instagr.am/p/WxGDicmT9b/
  6. @rossmonstr A thousand people just facepalmed around the world in unison.
  7. @rossmonstr Yo dawg I heard you like to read so I put a Kindle in your paperback so you can read while you read
  8. @rossmonstr Amazing the lengths people will go to hide they're reading 50 shades of grey.
  9. @rossmonstr LMAO *applause* My HS science teacher would love it. He wore paper clip on tie & always called it tie clip. #ThinkOutsideTheBox
  10. @Anjeebaby @rossmonstr I wonder if your mother is my age. I do that with my iPad. Your mom's the best.
  11. @rossmonstr my mates elderly mum uses a 'normal' vacuum cleaner to clean put her dyson.
  12. @rossmonstr That is pretty painful. It would be like using a laptop to stack notebooks on.

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