A Book Stand as a Gift for Book Lovers
A book stand is a amazing aid for any true book lover. Currently marketed models range from straight forward wire devices such as the Fold’N'Stow that holds a book at adjustable angles on virtually any flat surface, to the ultimately sophisticated LEVO Bookholder which embraces a book or other reading material in either a floor standing model or a clamp-on model that easily clamps to any table, desk, or counter top. Most book stand models work best with hard cover books, but most also can work quite well with paperback books when they are held by book holders such as an OpenPage.
The Fold’N'Stow is among the least expensive of book stands. It folds virtually flat and is sold with it’s own convenient pouch designed for easy placement in a 3 ring binder. It can be placed on a countertop for cookbooks, or atop your desk, table, workstation, bench, etc. Wire arms with page holders extend out from the back to secure your book open, and, by moving the arms either closer together or farther apart, smaller and larger books are readily accommodated. The back plane also has horizontal pieces that may be raised or lowered to vary the angle at which the book is held relative to the surface upon which it is resting.
The most popular model of the LEVO book stand is the LEVO floor standing model, which includes a weighted base on casters for ease of movement from bedside to treadmill to the couch, desk, table or counter top. Wherever you choose to put it, it will support in just about any position. Incorporating a bookboard which swings, tilts, cants, yaws and rotates into virtually any position, and coupled with a book mounting system that will hold your book, even upside down, the LEVO enables hands-free reading just about anywhere.
The LEVO Desk design is just as convenient as its floor standing sibling, but provides a clamp that firmly holds just about any table, desk, work bench, counter top or other flat surface up to two inches thick, and offers identical movements as the floor model, without the range of vertical telescoping movements. By keeping your reading materials above the surface to which it is secured, the clamp on model saves the weight and expense of the weighted rolling base while freeing up work space, since your book doesn’t rest on the surface.
Even though there are other book stand designs now available, the LEVO and Fold’N'Stow designs have withstood the test of time and stand up well to heavy use.