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Here are some items that are essential for the best reading experience. Find bookmarks to indicate where you left off reading. Discover a reading light for enjoying your book in the dark, and then take a look at these other accessories.
Book Journals
Journals are a great way to track what you read, and record what your impressions. Some of these journals also offer prompts and questions related to your reading experience. Enjoy your reading experience even more by writing about it! You'll also have great ideas and specific examples for essays, reports, studying, or just for your own personal enjoyment. Remember what you read!
Book Bags: Backpack, Shoulder Bags & Carrying Cases
Books bags offer the space and comfort, so you can carry the books you're reading--along with pens, highlighters, bookmarks, book flags, journals, and notebooks. Find book bags, backpacks, shoulder bags, and carrying cases. Take your books wherever you go: to school, work, a cafe, on the beach, to the library, at the park, or on a hike.
Book Lights
Book lights are essential for every book lover. These lights are perfect for reading while you're on the road, reading in bed, or just enjoying your individual reading in the dark. Here's are top picks for book lights.
Book Organizers - Software
With hundreds of books on your shelves in one (or more) rooms of your house, you may not know where to find your books. You may not know the value of your most valuable books, or which books you may want to trade in or sell. These software programs allow you to organize your library, so you know which books you have, where they came from, and more. Then, you can start building your list of books to buy for your library. Read on.
Book Stands and Book Rests
Whether you're studying for a class, reading a heavy textbook, writing a paper, or reading for pleasure, bookstands and book rests perfect tools to prop up your books and hold your place. You can also prop up your notes as you review for a test, or prepare to write a paper. Take a look.
Bookends
A bookend is placed at the end of a line of books to prop the volumes up. Of course, bookends can also add color and style to your library or bookshelf. A bookend can also make a statement about who you are, or what your interests are. Find a few top bookends.
Bookmark Collections
Bookmarks are more than just accessories to mark your place in a book. Collect bookmarks with literary quotations, famous works of art, interesting designs, literary scenes, and graphics/photographs of famous writers. A good bookmark can enhance your reading experience. Here are a few bookmarks to start you on your road to discovery...
Favorite Pens
You'll always need a pen when you're reading and writing about books and literature. When you're writing in your journal, taking notes, and/or writing your literature paper, you'll want to have a pen that's just right for you. Pens come in every shape and size from companies like Aurora, Conklin, Faber-Castell, Fisher, Lamy, Namiki, Parker, Pelikan, Pilot, Rotring, Sailor, Sensa, Waterford, Waterman, Waldman, Sheaffer, and Zebra. Here are just a few of my favorite pens.
Journals
Journals are a great way to track what you read, and record what your impressions. Some of these journals also offer prompts and questions related to your reading experience. Enjoy your reading experience even more by writing about it! You'll also have great ideas and specific examples for essays, reports, studying, or just for your own personal enjoyment. Remember what you read!
Magnifiers: See What You Read
Magnifiers are essential resources for every reader, no matter what your age. With just a simple device, you can spare your eyes the discomfort and strain of squinting to see that small print on the page. When you're studying textbooks and literary classics all day and all night, even the best eyes could use assistance. Here, you'll find a few magnifiers that should help you read.
Page Markers: Flags, Arrows & Post-its
Page markers are essential tools for every reader. Flag your favorite quotes; mark memorable passages; and highlight confusing episodes in the story, so you can come back to re-read them later. Whether you're studying a book for a literature class, or reading the book for your own personal pleasure, use these page markers to get the most out of your literary experience.
PDAs for Ebook Reading
With the latest technology, it's becoming easier and more cost-effective to download and read classic novels, stories, poems and other works of literature on a PDA (personal digital assistant). That's why a PDA is the perfect gift for the reader in your life. Or, you may want to drop hints, so you can find a PDA in your Christmas stocking. Here are a few top PDAs for reading ebooks and etext. Read on.
Peeramid BookRest
The Great Pyramid has inspired everything from toys and jewelry to clocks and figurines. But, for book-lovers, this latest addition is much more fun (and useful). It's the Peeramid BookRest, with a fabric exterior and colorful designs, which make it perfect for reading anywhere. Read on.
Reading Glasses
Even if you have great eyesight now, you may find yourself squinting after hours of studying or reading small print. Reading glasses allow you to read books more easily--whether you're just tired, reading small print, or really feeling the normal side-effects of spending many years with your nose buried in a book. Here are a few reading glasses. Buy a pair for yourself, or give the gift of reading glasses. Read on!

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