Protective, removable book cover with transparent marking overlays

A removable, protective book-cover which covers an exterior binding of a book, comprising:

• an outer jacket portion for covering the exterior binding of the book;
• means for removably securing said jacket portion to the exterior binding;
• and a protective transparent overlay secured to said jacket portion and adapted to overlie a page of the book, whereby relevant notations may be made on the surface of said overlay to create a record relevant to indicia appearing on the page, said overlay including hinge means facilitating the disposition thereof in contiguity to the surface of the page, said book-cover further including retaining means for maintaining said bookcover in a desired closed, protective configuration when the book is not in use, in which said retaining means includes loops affixed to said cover and pen means slidably disposed through said loops.

A removable, protective book-cover, comprising:

• an outer jacket portion for covering the exterior binding of a book;
• securement means operatively connected to said jacket portion for removably maintaining said jacket portion in operative relationship with the binding;
• and a transparent overlay secured to said securement means whereby said overlay can be disposed in operative relationship with a page of the book to permit temporary notations to be made upon said overlay relevant to contiguous printed matter on the page, said overlay incorporating hinge means adjacent the point of securement of said overlay to said securement means of said cover to facilitate the disposition of said overlay in intimate contiguity with the surface of the relevant page.