Fellowes Wire Study Stand, Metal, 9 1/2 x 6 x 5 1/2 Inches, Chrome (10024)

I know, this is supposedly for books, but who uses a book stand? I got this looking for a cheaper alternative for my Apple iPad, and it works great! The stand folds compact, and fits in my messenger bag perfectly. It holds the iPad sturdier than other stands (many are plastic and wobble), and I was able to use this on the airplane to watch movies on the iPad with no problem. I take it to coffee shops or wherever, and it's turned the iPad into a portable desktop. The stand will hold the iPad in both portrait and landscape orientation. The rear stabilizer struts are long, so it would take quite a jolt to knock the iPad off. This was a problem with other stands. I compared this to the sixty dollar metal stand they sell at the Apple Store, and this one was more compact, just as sturdy, and obviously a bazillion times cheaper. The only downside (for some) would be that the front pegs, made to hold pages into place, extend up in front of the iPad. This has not been an issue for me. If you sit in a normal height chair and table, looking somewhat downward at the iPad, the pegs do not block the screen at all. If you set it somewhere so that it is at eye level, the pegs extend up enough to obscure a tiny half-centimeter strip. If this bothered me, I'd cut them shorter (the rubber stops come off, so you could do this and then put them back on to fix this issue), but it hasn't been an issue.

I just received this a couple days ago. I expected it to be somewhat flimsy (despite the product description.) It is definitely NOT flimsy - very sturdy indeed. Plus, since I tend to read a lot of big, fat books as well as smaller paperbacks, I immediately tested it out for the big fat books. Put LORD OF THE RINGS on the stand..works just fine! Then a hard cover equally thick book - no problem! I anticipate some issues with the first few pages of a thick book, but once you have gotten 40 or 50 pages into it, this will hold the book just fine. It folds nice and flat and can be carried easily with your book. This should make reading while eating lunch or dinner at a restaurant a lot easier!! A must for those of us who travel a lot on business and have to eat alone...with a book.

First, this little stand is GREAT for some things, but there are other stands that are better for other things. I'll explain down below. MEASUREMENTS and CONSTRUCTION DESCRIPTION FOLDED down, it is 9.5 inches wide, 6 3/4 inches tall and practically flat. About 1/4 inch tall. This stand is GREAT for carrying in a briefcase or backpack. Literally takes up no room. And folding it down takes 1 second. STANDING, it is a hair under 6 inches tall, 9.5 inches wide and 6.5 inches front to back. The entire stand is made of heavy duty metal wire (or rods) like the prongs that you see in the picture. It is unfortunate they don't show another picture without a book on it. I would upload a picture if I knew how! It is made from 4 pieces of heavy wire. The first piece starts at the bottom and goes up a couple inches to form the left leg, then turns outward and up to form the supporting back left side, then goes straight across 9.5" across the top of the back and then down the right side, curving in at the bottom to form the right leg. So picture a U standing upside down. The top is flat across. The sides curve in as they get near the bottom, to form legs. The second piece is a straight bar across the bottom of the back part, (just above the legs) to make it secure. You then have a wire that is very long which forms one back support leg AND the front prong. Here's how it does it: This wire goes straight 4.5" to form the back support leg and then curls round and round and round the left leg of that U shape we talked about, and then straightens up to form the bottom of the prong in front, then turns up, forming a right angle, to hold the book in place. You have another one of these on the other side, forming the other back support leg and front prong. So, you can swivel the prongs closer together in the front, and the support legs in the back will swivel further out. Swivel it too far and you collapse the whole thing down flat for easy storage or transporting. They swivel because they are wrapped around and around the legs. And if you set something TOO heavy or big on this stand, such as a heavy laptop, the prongs and back support legs can swivel by themselves, collapsing the stand. HOW WELL DOES IT HOLD AN iPAD? A LAPTOP COMPUTER? This stand is GREAT for holding an iPad so you can read it/watch it at a more upright, natural angle. If your iPad is in a case that doesn't fold all the back to flat, it doesn't matter with this stand because the back of the stand is low enough that your case can just flop over the back of the stand. If all you need it for is an iPad, this is the most economical and easy one I've found. I put a laptop computer on this stand to see how it fared for reading or watching a movie. It worked so-so, but I would not recommend it. The laptop was just too big and too heavy. And while it did stay upright, there is a definite possibility that the swivel legs of this stand could close up under the bulk, dropping your computer. I have only a desktop computer, but the laptop I tried is an older one, so maybe newer ones are lighter, I don't know. But I would not trust a latptop to a stand that COULD collapse. (A stand I bought from Amazon that IS good for laptops is the KLOUD City metal desktop document book holder with 7 adjustable positions. That is the one I ordered. What I actually received was a Liangbao No. 616, which looks identical to the picture shown and I'm very happy with it). HOW WELL DOES IT HOLD BOOKS OF VARIOUS SIZES? BINDERS? First, let me say, the prongs in front that hold the book are not adjustable for thicker or thinner books and documents. You have just over 1.25 inch of space for the thickness of the book it is holding. I sat a closed hardback book in the stand that is just over 1.25" thick. Closed, the book is 9.5" tall and 7.75" wide and the stand handled it beautifully. I opened the book to the beginning, to the end and to the middle, and the stand held it fine. Any thicker, and the stand would not have accommodated it when the book was opened to the beginning or the end when all the thickness was on one side. If your book is a little unbalanced when opened all the way to the beginning or the end, you can just slide the book a little off center on the stand and it works great to get it back in balance. To see how it would do with tall books, since the back isn't very high, I used a Power-Glide paperback Spanish course book which is 11" tall, 8.5" wide and 1" thick. The stand supported it fine, although I did sit the book slightly off center on the stand when I was near the beginning and the end of the book. Because the book is 18" wide when open, and it's paperback, and the stand is only 9.5 inches wide, the book had a tendency to turn backwards a bit far on both sides. Still it was easy to read by just turning the stand a little to the right when I was reading the left page and a little to the left when I was reading the right page. I then tried a hardback 11 3/8" tall, 9" wide, 1" thick. The stand accommodated it just fine, and the hardback prevented the book from flopping backwards on the sides the way the large paperback book did. Again, I off-centered the book a little on the stand when I was at the very beginning or very end of the book. I tried a small paperback book, 7.75" tall by 5.25" wide by a hair over 1.25" thick. When opened anywhere near the middle - great. When opened to the very beginning or end, the small size was a little crooked and more difficult to read. I stuck a box of crayons behind it and that helped. For narrow books, you can swivel the legs so that the front prongs are closer together to hold a narrow book. I had to swivel them in for a paperback that was 4.25" wide, when closed. Even thought it was wider when opened, the prongs still needed swiveled in to hold the book open properly. For paperback books that have a strong tendency to want to close themselves back up, such as paperbacks that haven't been read yet and are still very "tight", the stand doesn't hold them as far open as I would like. If I get two ACCO Binder clips, or other clamp type clips, I think I can clip the edges of the book to the wire stand and hold it open nicely. I tried a hardback book 13.5" tall, 9.75" wide and 1" thick. This stand was just too small to handle the size and weight of that book. The stand kept wanting to topple. Again, the CLOUD City stand mentioned above (although I received an identical looking Liangbao) handles books this size just fine. This stand does fine with a 1" 3-ring binder. Even though the binder is much taller and, when open, much wider than the stand, the hard back keeps everything very nicely in place and easy to read. I would NOT recommend this stand for the soft cover binders. HOW EASY IS IT TO TURN THE PAGES OF A BOOK? You CAN turn the pages without removing the book from the stand by lifting the page CAREFULLY from behind one prong and sliding it down behind the prong on the other side. You do have to kind of twist the page you are turning to remove it from behind the peg, but if you do it carefully you won't tear or bend it. Or you can lift the book up, turn the page, and set it back down. (OR: The Liangbao No. 616 that I mentioned above - which I received when I ordered a KLOUD City from Amazon - is easier for turning pages because the prongs in front swivel down for easy turning.) HOW WELL DOES IT HOLD A DOCUMENT or A SINGLE SHEET OF PAPER? Because this stand isn't very tall, a single sheet - or sheets -of paper will bend over backwards and you can't read the top part. This is EASILY remedied. Place a legal pad or a clipboard behind the papers and they will stand up just fine. If using a legal pad, you could even clip the papers to the top of it with anACCO clip if needed, but I didn't find it necessary. I did find that the bottom of my clipboard or legal pad had a tendency to slide forward to the front, right up to the prongs, which made my papers lean further back at more of an angle than I personally like. This too was easily remedied. I pushed the bottom of the clipboard to the back, which caused my papers to stand up straighter, and I placed a ruler flat across the prongs in front of it, to keep the clipboard pushed back in the more upright position that I prefer. My ruler is 1.25" wide. A narrower ruler (or strip of thick cardboard or whatever you have) would give you a little more of an angle. WRAP UP I like this stand better for some things and I like the KLOUD City/Liangbao better for other uses. This one is definitely best for storing in small spaces and for transporting. And it is great for holding an iPad. It works fine for holding paper and paper documents, so long as I have a few props. It works for some sizes and types of books, but the KLOUD City/Liangbao definitely has it beat on many books.

I've used this bookstand for three years now, and it's one of the most essential parts of my grad student toolkit. Quit balancing a book in your lap to hold it open while typing notes from it. This is a simple, well-made product that does exactly what it's intended to do (hold pages open at eye level) very well. Your life will be improved ten times over with this low-cost piece of wire. It's thin, folds up and is easy to transport. I tell the new students in my department to buy one of these. A few dollars will improve your life forever. If you've considered buying one, that means you need one. Buy it, you will NOT regret it. It's not for larger textbooks, though. Law students may be OK (depends on book size, I'd definitely consider other options), science texts will probably be too thick. Not handling larger books isn't a reason to remove a star-you just need a different product. It's not adjustable, but there's nothing to break.

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En relación calidad-precio está perfecto. Es difícil cambiar la página en libros gordos pero sin en estos es muy estable y súper cómodo.

Love this stupid thing. I use it for my cookbooks in the kitchen. Takes up no space when storing with the cookbooks and you can't tell it's there. Very minimalistic and i love it!

This product is good for what it is. It's lightweight and folds into a nice size that fits well in a backpack or bag. My problem with it is that larger books don't fit well, if at all. Anything over 900-1000 pages is a little too much for this little guy. Unfortunately for me, most of the books I would like to use in it exceed that size. That being said, I would recommend it for people who will be using it for books with fewer pages.

Son estupendos . Todo el mundo me pregunta donde los compre porque son muy practicos , ligeros y resistentes y. A mi me da mucho gusto haberlos comprado a la mitad del precio que lo venden en las papelerías.