Mighty Bright Fold-n-Stow Book Holder
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Mighty Bright Fold-n-Stow Book Holder
Customer Review: In law school, book stand was a lifesaver
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this product, it really works well for my huge law books, it's also good for the smaller but thick books. The legs adjust well for page flipping. If you're the end or beginning of the book,where you have a lot of pages on one side and very few on the other, (in a 700 page book this is a big weight issue), it still gets the job done.
HOWEVER,
I also ordered the easi-reader bookstand, about $1 more (doesn't ship to Canada so I had to order it from Independent living aids so shipping was expensive). I'd have to say that the Easi-reader, although it has a more simple look, it more solid than the mighty-bright. Mighty bright metal pieces are held together with plastic while the Easi-reader is held together with metal and its over structure (hard to tell from the Amazon picture) is more solid. My books don't move around whatsoever on the latter.
Another downside, for both products, they are not good for small paperbacks. But for students with large books, cookbooks, papers, pictures they work really well.
Customer Review: Perfect!
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this bookholder on the recommendation of the other law student who wrote a review. I'm glad I did! This bookholder is perfect for holding big, bulky, thick lawbooks. It swings opens to fit any size textbook. I was initially concerned that it didn't have the movable "flipper" arms that other bookholders use to keep the book open to the appropriate page, however, I discovered that this excellent bookholder doesn't need them. The design itself with it's "hooked" arms keeps the pages open. In fact not having the "flipper" arms is better. I set my book open in class and hold the pages back on each side of a section of material that the professor is discussing. That way I am able to quickly flip between pages during the lecture as the professor discusses specific text. The bookholder is lightweight and packaged in a great plastic holder that is "hole punched" to fit into my notebook. Finally, it is affordable. I looked and tested many other bookholders before taking a leap on this one. I'm glad I choose wisely.Customer Review: This Book Holder Doesn't Hold Books Well
Summary: 2 Stars
I have owned this product for many years considering it almost useless and only now when looking for a useful portable book stand I learned how good this one was. First, reading the reviews, I didn't even suspect that I owned such a great product and then, after I realized and confirmed it by looking at the picture, I took it out and tested again.
First, as one (at least) review has mentioned, it's impossible to adjust angle between the book and the surface.
Second, it doesn't conveniently hold average paperback even in the middle of the book and makes the first and last dozens of pages hardly readable.
Third, even the books it can hold (mostly large heavy hard backs) require constant adjustment on the stand to remain readable so you cannot just easily flip through the pages back and forth.
Forth, it, probably, can be convenient for a relatively static use of a reference book, i.e., if one needs to look on a few pages in a narrow range.
Customer Review: wrong description
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this book holder after reading good reviews, but it is really not so good. Mighty Bright writes in the product description 'Variable slope Adjustments (it really adjusts)', but the fact is that it does not. It has one fixed slope. I sent a email to Mighty Bright, who is the seller and probably the manufacturer of this product to explain me how I can adjust the slope, if it really does, as he says. It has been several weeks by now, but I have not received any response. Another drawback is that the wires are soft and pliable and tend to bend with the weight of a hardcover high school textbook. It seems that soon it is going to be out of shape. Yes, one good thing is that it does fold, so it is easily portable.Customer Review: Not what I was looking for
Summary: 2 Stars
This product didn't meet the expectations I had after reading the product details and all the customer reviews. It holds regular hard-cover textbooks pretty well, but I have 2 wire bound textbooks that it doesn't support. Also its very inconvenient to turn pages (you pretty much have to take the book off the stand, turn the page, and then put it back in the stand), regardless of what kind of book you are using, which really defeats the purpose for me because I normally don't just stay on the same page.
However, it does fold nicely and comes with a little sleeve that is hole punched so you can carry it around in a binder. I thought that was cool.