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These are beautiful just a bit too thick for those thin paper Bibles.

Having bought a ‘vintage’ Bible at my local library book sale ($2), the Living Bible has quickly become my fav Bible so far—of my many. I don’t need tabs to find a book in any Bible but I did want to dress it up a little yet didn’t want a cover; so book tabs to the rescue. I couldn’t decide which tabs suited so I bought the bundle (at a very cheap price) intending to mix and match. I discovered the one set is already quite variable, modern—maybe even juvenile but fun— so no need to mix but those didn’t seem to suit this Bible. I didn’t think I would choose the flowery tabs but this Bible being from 1971, one that was in our home when I was a child, they seemed to suit it best— and I love them. The gold letter writing is beautiful, large, and clear yet the background is visible. The enclosed ruler with instructions helps to line up the tabs if you want them that way—and since I’ve historically made a mess of them I loved that bonus. While I wouldn’t change the designs one thing that surprised me is that these tabs are all paper/cardboard. I know they say ‘laminated’ and I guess I didn’t get that , but the flowery designed ones are quite big so are heavy on the page— makes my Bible thicker. I am glad I didn’t try to use them on those thin onion skin pages that fancier Bibles have—which I haven’t used in years due to the flimsy transparency. But also, I can see them becoming frayed with the use I put on them, although maybe not because they are laminated? I know the low cost reflects the materials in part and they are pretty but for a more modern adult Bible the traditional plastic tabs might be a better choice. I’ve even seen leather tabs which are probably lighter than these. For the use of this Bible though these certainly work. I love having the extra tabs that can be used for the concordance, dictionary, or contents pages, etc—which this Bible does not have any of—but I love a good book mark so I can see using these to make some (last pic is a simple one made with an index card which I will write memory stuff like names of the Apostles—can’t believe I still have a hard time naming them all.) I can see using them also in my sewing machine manuals (another collection) and cookbooks, etc. Because of the way my Bible is printed—starting a different book on the same page —I do have a few places where short books overlap on the page but it was no problem to place two labels on that page—see photo. All in all I am very happy with my purchase. Edit: As I look at the labels in the clear light of day I see they look ragged already due to the way they fold—each side is slit to the middle causing the edges to lift on some of them, see last photo. That might be my fault because I did them in the early morning hours without daylight, guess I didn’t see good enough—but I was sure to bend them in half before I placed them. Wouldn’t have been like that had they been plastic stick on as I expected rather than fold over cardboard. But here’s another very disappointing thing, being laminated makes the extra labels useless for me—seeing as how my label maker went belly up and now isn’t the time to buy a new one. No writing implement will stick to the lamination—no Flair, ball point pen, or pen, no fabric pen or Le Pen which writes on EVERYTHING. Ruined my extra labels I had put on my personal calendar journal by trying, had to get out my scrapbooking supplies to cover them over, so what was the purpose? I tried to be positive but I’m really irritated now.

I purchased the three pack of these tabs. I wanted the floral and saw that I could get them along with two others for the same price. I used two of them on a Bible and a Bible Commentary. Both have thin pages which are not sturdy enough for these thick tabs. As you can see in the video. The top and bottom tabs bend and wrinkle the pages. It may not be so bad if you store your Bibles flat while not I use. I stand mine up for ease in retrieving so gravity and the heaviness of the tabs are taking a toll on pages with tabs at the top and bottom of the pages. The pages with tabs in the middle seem to be fine. The tabs I used on the Bible Commentary are of varying sizes, which isn’t too bad. They add interest. However, the ones that have the angled cut outs leaving just the outer tips of the tab as the contact points for the page are a little difficult to work with. If you want the edges of all tabs to line up with each other when the book/Bible is closed, then there isn’t much of the tab in contact with the page with those. Pointed out with 2 Chronicles tab in the video. If you want more of the tab in the page, then those tabs will be more inset than the rest of the tabs. Also, I didn’t like the tiny tabs for the books with short names, like John, Ruth, Ezra, etc. In my opinion they, looked out of place, so I cut them and stuck them to some thinner blank tabs that I had leftover from a different set of Mr. Pen floral tabs to make the tabs a little bit more uniform. Pointed out with the Ruth tab in the video. I did use the tiny blank tabs on some of the introduction pages in the Commentary. I haven’t used the floral set yet. Just ordered another Scriptures on which I will use those tabs. It also has thin pages, but it will be stored lying flat on my nightstand. I’ll just have to be careful when turning the tabbed pages.

Beautiful designs and has extra blank ones you can customize. Note: The biggest complaints I see in other reviews is that you can't write on the customizable tabs. I'm sure this due to the protective coating on all the tabs. I happen to have a small label maker that I knew I was going to use to customize mine (which worked great!), but you could also take any label you have around the house (for file folders, mailing labels, etc.), cut a small piece out and stick it on the customizable tab. Then you could use any kind of pen to write what you want on it. Hope that helps someone minimize frustration.

Beautiful sturdy cardboard/cardstock Bible tabs and you get 3 sets for a decent price. My complaint is that many of the tabs don’t stick unless I use a small binder clip for a few minutes to hold them together. You can also use glue but it would be better if they stuck together better. They do allow for repositioning so that’s a plus.