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How Your Can Buy the Perfect Book Holder for You
September 4, 2010
Properly selected, a book holder can reduce and sometimes even eliminate hand, wrist, arm and neck fatigue for readers, protect the book it holds, and protect the reader’s privacyfrom prying eyes. While book holders may be a necessity for readers with certain physical challenges, most readers don’t initially realize the convenience of a book holder. However, almost all book lovers quickly discover they prefer reading with one once they’ve used a well conceived design.
Some book holder designs also serve as a stand to support and position a book for more comfortable reading without the need of any other supporting device, making for totally “hands-free” reading. Some designs consist of simple wire creations that clip onto pages of the book to hold it open, while others form stands for use on flat surfaces and can be folded flat for easy storage or transport. Other designs include floor stands that can be easily moved from a favorite easy chair to bedside to next to. Other designs incorporate spring steel inside vinyl covers that wrap around a book to keep it open while reading and snap closed for protection during travel.
Other book holder designs can perform double duty as copy holders, magazine holders, newspaper holders, etc, thus extending the number of benefits its owner enjoys. There are book holders designed to float in a pool or tub, and there are book holders designed to hold your book attached to your computer or laptop screen. And there are book holders designed to be secured to a desk, table or countertop to hold a book weighing up to five pounds while preserving valuable work space. These are particularly useful for cook books, instruction manuals, user manuals, repair manuals, and other books you need to keep readily visible when working, but where work space is at a premium.
By finding the right book holder design, a book lover’s enjoyment can be increased many fold.
