After our earlier post on Umbra's Livroche Bookstand, there was a comment from a reader requesting a less-bulky design for a book holder. The stainless steel design from Pascal Charmolu is remarkably less bulky...
This slender (and heavy) holder is ideal for keeping heavy books open, whether they be coffee table books or cookbook anthologies. If you're using the page holder for cook books, this design won't protect pages from food and splatters like other designs, but t is remarkably less bulky and dishwasher safe. Available from MoMA for $30.
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Comments (7)
And first prize for clutter you absolutely do not need goes to.......
apartment thereapy hates the spines of your books.
Single-use products make me SO tired. Couldn't you just use a stapler, or a spatula, or a serving spoon, or SOMETHING you already have to hold your book open?
Darcidoodle -
I really like the spatula idea - maybe I can screw a bolt through the middle to add some heft and sell them for $30.
You cannot use a spatula or spoon if you're a full-time student like myself, who literally deals with thousands of books a year; they're simply not heavy enough. The problem of course is that new books, or old books which haven't been cracked open very often, or irregularly shaped books/bindings tend to snap shut when you try to prop the pages open with anything other than a pig iron in order to copy lengthy passages. You usually can't even use other books to do the job. The best solution I have found thus far is my girlfriend's extremely heavy stapler, but then I don't own the stapler...
If you're dealing with cookbooks or pleasure reading then a page-holder isn't necessary. But that doesn't mean the object isn't universally unnecessary. I just wonder if it's heavy enough.
david: this one is very heavy.
page holders are totally necessary if you are cooking. there are so many book stands, and this is a way better idea than any of those. most things are not shaped correctly and/or not heavy enough, especially for paperbacks. i mean, i haven't bought one of these, but i think it's a good idea.