Book leaf holder

A leaf or page holder for a book, for enabling the book to be held open at a position desired by the reader so that the reader can hold the book in one hand while reading, comprising:

• an elongated and flexible formed piece of material, the material having a springy characteristic and being flexible so as to permit bending while tending to return to its original position the piece of material being formed generally in a single plane when undeformed,
• the elongated piece of material having a central or back member for extending behind the binding and front and rear covers of an opened book, of sufficient length to extend from the edge of the front cover to the edge of the back cover when the book is in the opened position,
• the piece of material having at each end of the central member, connected to the central member, a first page engaging arm configured so as to be capable of engaging against the surface of an opened page when the central member is in a springing, stressed condition behind and against the binding of the book, the two arms at the two ends of the central member both extending generally inwardly, toward each other,
• at each end of the page holder, connected to the first page engaging arm, there being an attached means for acting in conjunction with the first page engaging arm as a clip to hold the first page engaging arm tightly against the book page, and the leaf or page holder being normally in a generally planar configuration, with the springy characteristic tending to return the page holder to the planar configuration when deformed.