diff --git a/web/src/reader/reader.ts b/web/src/reader/reader.ts
index e4bd301..223b700 100644
--- a/web/src/reader/reader.ts
+++ b/web/src/reader/reader.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { Overlayer } from "@bookhoard/foliate-js/overlayer.js";
 import { Alpine } from "../alpine";
 import { loadSettings, saveSettings } from "./settings-manager";
 import { getToken } from "../storage";
+import { showToast } from "../toast";
 import {
   extractPdfPages,
   searchPdfPages,
@@ -1959,9 +1960,16 @@ document.addEventListener("alpine:init", () => {
             }),
           },
         );
-        if (resp.ok) await this.refreshBookmarks();
+        if (resp.ok) {
+          await this.refreshBookmarks();
+          showToast(
+            `Bookmark added — ${this.progressText || "current position"}`,
+            "success",
+            2500,
+          );
+        }
       } catch (_e) {
-        /* ignore bookmark errors for now */
+        /* network failures surface via the toast fetch interceptor */
       }
     },
     async deleteBookmark(id: string) {