A book stand is a amazing aid for any true book lover. Currently available types range from straight forward wire devices such as the Fold’N'Stow that holds a book at adjustable angles on any flat surface, to the infinitely more elaborate LEVO Bookholder that secures a book in either a floor stand design or a clamp-on model that easily fastens to just about any table, desk, or counter top. Most book stand models work best with hard cover books, but most also can work very well with paperback books mounted in book holders like an OpenPage.
The Fold’N'Stow is among the least expensive of book stands. It folds flat for easy storage and transport and comes with it’s own convenient pouch designed for use in a 3 ring binder. It can be used on a countertop for cookbooks, or the top of your desk, table, workstation, bench, etc. Wire arms with page holders swing out from the back plane to secure your book open, and, by moving the arms either closer together or farther apart, smaller and larger books are easily accommodated. The back plane also has horizontal pieces that can be raised or lowered to adjust the angle at which the book is held relative to the surface upon which it is resting.
The LEVO’s most popular book stand is the LEVO floor standing model, which includes a weighted base on casters for easy movement just about anywhere. Wherever you position it, it can hold your book in just about any position. Incorporating a bookboard which adjusts into virtually any position, and combined with a book mounting mechanism that will hold your book, even in an inverted position, the LEVO makes reading truly hands-free from just about any position.
The LEVO Clamp-on model is just as handy as the LEVO Floor Model, but provides a clamp that safely holds just about any table, desk, work bench, counter top or other flat surface up to two inches thick, and provides identical movements as the floor stand model, without the range of vertical telescoping movements. By keeping your book off the surface to which it is secured, the clamp-on design saves the weight and expense of the weighted base while conserving valuable work space, since your book doesn’t rest on the working surface.
While there are other book stand designs currently available, the Fold’N'Stow and LEVO book stands have withstood the test of time and stand up well to constant use.