Patent ID: 7328878

Claim:
A book holder comprising: a generally rigid laminar rear panel; a generally rigid laminar transparent front panel having a central gap through which selected pages of a book, held in an open position between said front and rear panels, may extend; a generally rigid laminar book support panel coupled and generally perpendicular to both said rear panel and said front panel; a generally rigid laminar bottom panel coupled to both said rear panel and said front panel, said bottom panel being generally parallel to said book support panel; at least one magnetic strip affixed to said front panel below an upper surface of said book support panel, said at least one magnetic strip having portions positioned to the left and to the right of said central gap; and a plurality of ferromagnetic clips, each of which is attachable to a lower portion of a selected page, each selected page and an attached clip being alternately securable to both left and right portions of said at least one magnetic strip.