Programming Book Holder? | The Coffeehouse

All,

Can anyone recommend a good book holder for my desk? I have 600 page .NET book open while I am trying to do some programming and it is a bit uncomfortable on my lap. It would be nice to have a holder next to my monitor that I can use to prop up the book and keep the pages open.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

mikexkearney

Lift weights, go heavy, toughen the F up.

Anon-E-Mouse

What the heck kinda reply is that? Is the question offensive or stupid in some manner? Please enlighten me as to why you would waste keystrokes with that reply.

mikexkearney

Because I felt you wasted keystrokes starting this thread.

Do Ikea have a forum?

Sorry to you offend you, hope the quest for comfort is realised.

W3bbo

Anon-E-Mouse wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good book holder for my desk? I have 600 page .NET book...

Stop right there. A 600 page .net book? Something's not right.

Whilst there are plenty of book holders, none seem right to hold a 2" thick book open. If I were in your place I'd go hunt around for an eBook or PDF version of the tome and just have it open on a secondary display. Have you tried that option?

JChung2006

Buy a bookstand or book holder on Amazon. Or get an electronic copy and put it in full-screen mode on a second monitor. (Darn, w3bbo beat me to it.)

Anon-E-Mouse

mikexkearney wrote:

Because I felt you wasted keystrokes starting this thread.

Do Ikea have a forum?

Sorry to you offend you, hope the quest for comfort is realised.

Are you serious? So this is a question that no one besides me would care about. And, of course I could go to freakin' IKEA and check ones out. I could order one straight out of Amazon. But I do believe in the model of word of mouth advertising. I would prefer to buy one recommended by programmers -- this is a developer forum in some respects right?

Jeez -- I suppose I am can take comfort in knowing that I am helping you take out your anger on what seems to be a bad day for you. I hope you feel better soon.

Anon-E-Mouse

W3bbo wrote:

Anon-E-Mouse wrote: Can anyone recommend a good book holder for my desk? I have 600 page .NET book...

Stop right there. A 600 page .net book? Something's not right.

Whilst there are plenty of book holders, none seem right to hold a 2" thick book open. If I were in your place I'd go hunt around for an eBook or PDF version of the tome and just have it open on a secondary display. Have you tried that option?

At least you gave me a semi-half-decent reply. The book I have is Adam Nathan's WPF Unleashed. Pretty big. I am just working through some of the samples. I only have two monitors and both are being used, and I am not sure if there is a PDF of it. But regardless, there won't be PDF's of every book I might need.

Anon-E-Mouse

JChung2006 wrote:

Buy a bookstand or book holder on Amazon. Or get an electronic copy and put it in full-screen mode on a second monitor. (Darn, w3bbo beat me to it.)

Folks, I understand I could just throw a dart at Google and buy some random book holder.

I just thought some developers on this forum may have run into the same issue I have and could recommend a specific one.

I still find it hard to believe that is so hard to grasp. I understand not wanting to help people, but why the condescending tones?

W3bbo

Anon-E-Mouse wrote:

I still find it hard to believe that is so hard to grasp. I understand not wanting to help people, but why the condescending tones?

We're information workers in the IT/Computer Science industry. Why are we still using paper? Smiley

/owns a tabletpc
//they're overrated
///actually uses paper for taking notes in class

Anon-E-Mouse

W3bbo wrote:

Anon-E-Mouse wrote: I still find it hard to believe that is so hard to grasp. I understand not wanting to help people, but why the condescending tones?

We're information workers in the IT/Computer Science industry. Why are we still using paper?

/owns a tabletpc
//they're overrated
///actually uses paper for taking notes in class

I am all for electronic versions of books. In fact many I buy from Amazon I pay that silly $2.99 to get it digitized too. But there are still some that are paper bound only. So for those cases I would like to be ergonomic with a good book stand.

JChung2006

Sorry, my post was not meant to be condescending. I simply prefer on-screen PDF's over propped up 600+ page books.

If you're deadset on paper books, I would recommend heading down to your local bookstore and asking them for recommendations.

JohnAskew

I made one out of bricks after the house fire...

Big Smile

ScottWelker

I recognize this is not what you asked for but, I am VERY happy with my O'Reilly Safari Library subscription. Kind'a pricey and I must confess it's not been easy to wean myself off the old hard-backs. The fire that destroyed my library, ~20 year collection, helped :-/

In my hard-back days, I never used a book holder. Just got accustom to positioning the book to the right were I could glance over and down at it - sometimes propping it open with another book.

Good luck!!