A book stand is a amazing aid for every true lover of books. Currently available types vary from simple wire devices like the Fold’N'Stow that holds a book at variable angles on virtually any flat surface, to the ultimately sophisticated LEVO Bookholder that embraces your book or other reading material in either a floor standing design or a clamp-on design that securely clamps to any table, desk, or counter top. Many book stand designs function well with hard cover books, but they also can function very nicely with paperbacks when they are mounted within book holders like an OpenPage.
The Fold’N'Stow is among the least expensive of book stands. It folds virtually flat for easy storage and transport and is sold with it’s own plastic pouch punched for easy use in a 3 ring binder. It may be positioned on a counter top for cookbooks, or atop a desk, table, workstation, bench, etc. Wire arms with page keepers extend from the back to secure your book open, and, by moving the arms either closer together or farther apart, smaller and larger books may be readily accommodated. The back plane has horizontal pieces that can be moved to adjust 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 features a weighted rolling base for easy movement just about anywhere. Wherever you choose to put it, the LEVO can support in virtually any position you can imagine. With a bookboard that can be moved in any plane, and combined with a book mounting system that will securely hold your book or other reading material, even upside down, the LEVO makes reading truly hands-free just about anywhere.
The LEVO Desk design is just as handy as the LEVO Floor Model, but incorporates a clamp that firmly holds any table, desk, work bench, counter top or other flat surface up to two inches thick, and offers the same movements as the floor model, without the degree of telescoping movements vertically. By holding your book or other reading materials above the surface to which it is attached, the desk design saves the weight and expense of the weighted base while freeing up work space, since neither your book nor your book holder rest on the working surface.
Even though there are other book stand designs currently available, the Fold’N'Stow and LEVO designs have withstood the test of time and stand up well to constant use.