If you already subscribe to Notes in. the Margins, you know full well that we loves us from book shit.
The “Add to Cart” section is just a great excuse to scour the Internets in search of useful and aesthetically pleasing book-related items. And, overall, we do a bang-up job!
(Have we found the cutest tote bags and pins and beach towels on the market? Yes, we have. Have we pointed you to the genuinely fun literary board games? For sure. Cute-ass book racks? Affirmative. Would you have found these without us? What about these? We’re pretty good at finding stuff is what I’m trying to say.)
But, friends, we have failed you.
Not Twitter-selling-out-to-Elon-Musk-level failure, not Supreme Court-overturning-Roe failure. Not even public-slapping-at-the Oscars failure… but still. We’re feeling some shame.
Because in all this time, we have never once acknowledged the Web’s most useful and aesthetically pleasing book-related item of all. And that is, of course, Book Stand for Reading Lying on Bed. The pictures gave it away, right?
Available for somewhere between $66 and $115.50, this contraption is pure genius for anyone who heretofore has been holding their books with their hands while lying flat on their backs.
It’s an inexcusable oversight on our part, given how easily we would have found it had we simply googled any one of the excellent keywords listed on the site: “reading stand bed supine,” for instance, or “book stand lying down,” or simply (and, clearly the most on-point) “lazy person.”
Yes, that’s right: “lazy person” is in the description. They do know their market.
The Book Stand for Reading Lying on Bed is made in China and available to lazy people through Ali Express.
And if you’re still on the fence, just read the text on the screen grabs.
The thing sells itself.
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