Protective jacket having a magnifying lens

Abstract

A protective jacket includes a central panel and two end panels, at least one of which has a material strip easily removed by hand along a vertical perforation. This material strip has a circular opening at an end to hold a magnifying lens and a slotted portion at an opposite end which defines a tongue with which the material strip can be hung from a top edge of any page in a book. The material strip can thus be used as both a magnifying lens and a bookmark. A protective jacket according to a further embodiment of the present invention includes a plastic magnifying lens suspended from an interior surface of the protective jacket. An even further embodiment of the present invention includes a plastic magnifying lens suspended from the binding of a book. The present invention is not limited to books, but can be utilized with all types of printed materials, such as maps.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.