We study how a bound notebook page can be folded once so that the page is visible when the notebook is closed and becomes a bookmark. An additional practical requirement is that the folded page stays within the same side of the bind, so that it does not get creased further when one closes the notebook. This simple problem displays a remarkably rich bifurcation behavior, which can be analyzed using undergraduate calculus. The main finding is that the optimal way of folding the page depends on the page's aspect ratio and changes abruptly when the latter exceeds the critical value of 1.207 11. This behavior also resembles a first-order phase transition in thermodynamics despite its geometric origin.
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