Patent ID: 8215838

Claim:
Combination grocery shopping bag and book cover apparatus for covering a selected book from predetermined first and second groups of books, the first group having front and back covers with heights of 6 inches, widths of 9 inches and a spine width of 1½ inches, the second group having front and back covers with heights of 7½ inches and respective widths of 10 inches, and a spine width of 1 inch, the apparatus comprising: a paper grocery shopping bag having front, back and opposite end walls with respective inside surfaces: indicia on the inside surfaces of at least the front or back walls and the end walls defining first and second rectangular outlines forming first and second templates having respective top and bottom sides and opposite ends and sized to, when the shopping bag is open and laid flat, correspond with the respective heights and combined widths of the front and back covers and spines of the respective first and second groups of books, and including a border of substantially 1 inch at the respective top and bottom and opposite ends of the templates whereby a user may use the grocery shopping bag to tote groceries and then sever one of the walls of the bag and lay it flat with the inner surface exposed, and select a selected one of the templates corresponding with a selected book from the first and second groups, sever the selected one of the templates along respective outline to free the selected one of the templates to cover the respective front and back covers and spine of the selected book.