Page holding bookmark

摘要

A device for holding pages of a book and marking a place in a book comprising an elongated strip of a flexible, non-extendible material having a length greater than the width of the book with which it will be used, when the book is open, a flexible, elastic cord connected to the elongated strip near the ends of the strip and being of a length such that the elastic cord is in a substantially unstretched state when not in use, the strip and the elastic cord having sufficient respective flexibility and extendibility as to extend over the full width of a book when opened and whereby the elastic cord will stretch and the strip will flex as the book is moved from a full open position to a partial open position to allow turning of the pages of the book in either direction.