Patent ID: 8683939

Claim:
A bookmark for marking pages in a book having a spine and a plurality of laminar book parts attached to the spine, the laminar book parts including front and back covers and a plurality of pages, each laminar book part being planar and having edges including a top, a bottom, a free side edge, and an attached side edge attached at the spine of the book, the bookmark comprising: a laminar element for insertion between laminar book parts; a magnetic clip which provides attractive clipping force through a laminar book part for gripping the laminar book part; and a releasable page holder, the magnetic clip being arranged to define at least one abutment area in which the bookmark abuts against the laminar book part, the at least one abutment area defining a line of abutment along which an edge of the laminar book part is to be aligned when the bookmark is abutted against the laminar book part, the releasable page holder comprising a flexible element and a page retaining element, the flexible element being attached, at a first end, to the laminar element and, at a second end, to the page retaining element, wherein the first end of the flexible element is arranged to be located adjacent an edge of the laminar book part and the flexible element is arranged to extend from the first end along an edge of the laminar book part when the bookmark is abutted against an edge of the laminar book part, wherein the second end of the flexible element is arranged to be movable with respect to the first end by means of flexing of the flexible element away from the laminar book part towards the second end of the flexible element, to enable the page retaining element to engage and retain the page whilst the bookmark is held in place on the laminar book part by the magnetic clip, and wherein said one abutment area is spaced from the first end of the flexible element via the laminar element, the second end of the flexible element being disposed between the first end of the flexible element and the abutment area as measured along the line of abutment.