A book stand is a great gift idea for any real book lover. Currently tendered types range from simple wire devices like the Fold’N'Stow that holds a book at variable angles on virtually any flat surface, to the elegantly conceived and executed LEVO Bookholder that embraces a book in either a floor stand design or a clamp-on model that securely fastens to any table, desk, or counter top. Most book stand models function well with hard cover books, but most also can function quite nicely with paperbacks when they are held by book holders like 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 plastic pouch designed for easy use in a three ring binder. It can be placed on a counter top for recipe books, or the top of a desk, table, workstation, bench, etc. Wire arms with page keepers extend out from the back to secure your book open, and, by adjusting how far apart the arms are, smaller and larger books are readily accommodated. The back plane 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 LEVO’s most popular book stand is the LEVO floor standing model, which includes a weighted base on casters for easy movement from bedside to treadmill to the couch, desk, table or counter top. Wherever you position it, the LEVO will position in just about any position you can imagine. Incorporating a bookboard that can be adjusted in any plane, and combined with a book mounting mechanism that will secure your book, even upside down, the LEVO makes reading truly hands-free just about anywhere.

The LEVO Clamp On model is just as handy as its floor standing sibling, but provides a clamp that securely holds any table, desk, work bench, counter top or other flat surface up to two inches thick, and offers identical movements as the floor stand model, without the range of telescoping movements vertically. By supporting your book up off the surface to which it is attached, the clamp-on model saves the weight and expense of the weighted rolling floor base while freeing up work space, since neither your book nor your book holder rest on the working surface.

While there are other book stand designs available, the LEVO and Fold’N'Stow book stands have withstood the test of time and function well under long term use.

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