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The Nightstand Is a Bookshop Now

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Reading in bed has its own small equipment, and most nightstands are missing all of it. Here is the kit: padded sleeves that keep a book's corners safe, bookmarks made by hand in leather, wood, and felt, and the extras that finish the scene, a bookis...
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Sleeves and Covers

Books pick up knocked corners in tote bags and sofa cushions. The five sleeves in this section are padded or fleece-lined, they close with zippers, buttons, or a snap, and most come in a run of sizes, from a slim e-reader up to a chunky hardcover.

 
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Yes, those are pterodactyls, patterned with flowers on cornflower-blue cotton. MelvisMakes sews each sleeve from scratch with fleece padding inside, in four sizes running from paperback up to a 12 by 9.5 inch hardcover, with an optional popper tab fo...
Floral Pterodactyl Book Sleeve: Padded Cotton Book Cover
 
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Stitched in Arizona, this quilted sleeve hides its best trick on the front: a zip pocket sized for pens, highlighters, and cards. The main compartment closes with an elastic loop over a real wooden button, the lining is soft flannel, and the whole th...
Quilted Book Sleeve, Paperback Book Protector, Handmade Journal Cover 10" x 7", Kindle Sleeve, Padded E-reader Case
 
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The zipper runs right around the top edge of this one, so the book drops in instead of being posted through a slot. It is quilted, padded, and fitted with a second zip pocket on the front; the fabric range runs wide, and the popular prints sell out a...
Quilted Book Sleeve with Zipper Book Protector Handmade Quilted Book Cover Padded Book Sleeve for Book Lover Gift for Readers IPad Sleeve
 
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Rifle Paper Co's Garden Party print does the showing off here, roses across the front pocket while the top panel stays plain quilted cream. Underneath: foam padding, a flannel lining, a wooden button with an elastic loop, and five sizes from a small ...
Padded Book Sleeve in Rifle Paper Co "Garden Party in Rose" Kindle Sleeve, Quilted Book Sleeve, E-reader Case, Gifts For Readers
 
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Blue line-drawn flowers on cream, quilted in straight channels, with the shop's own woven label on the front. 99Press sizes it from extra small at 5.75 by 7.5 inches up to a medium that swallows most paperbacks, the closure is a plain zipper, and an ...
Quilted Book Sleeve with Zipper | Kindle Sleeve | iPad Sleeve | Bookish Gift | Handmade Padded Book Pouch

Bookmarks

Paper scraps and old receipts do the job until they do not. These five are the permanent kind: full-grain leather stamped with an initial, wood engraved with flowers or filigree, and felt embroidered by hand, each one made to be given as much as kept...

 
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Full-grain Italian leather, cut 7 by 1.5 inches and finished with a tassel, is the whole product here, and it is enough. The personalisation is wide open: names, quotes, and even logos are engraved free, it arrives in a gift box, and the Florida work...
Personalized Gift, Custom Leather Bookmark, Personalized Gift, Book Lover gift, Gift For Him, Gift for Her, Gift for dad, Gift for Mom
 
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Where the bookmark above takes whole sentences, this one takes a single initial, stamped deep into full-grain leather. CoverCafe cuts it slightly narrower at 1.25 by 7 inches, colours run from tan to deep blue, and personalised pieces take two to fiv...
Personalized Bookmark,Custom Leather Bookmark, Initial Bookmark
 
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A garden, engraved into pale wood: daisies, ferns, and seed heads run the length of this 4 and 5/8 inch bookmark. The tassel is included, its colour varies, and the back can carry a name or a short message if it is a gift.
Engraved Floral Wooden Bookmark | Reader Gift | Laser-Cut Nature Lover Gift
 
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Sewn entirely by hand, this corner bookmark slips over the page corner instead of sliding between pages. Two layers of wool-blend felt carry the embroidery, daisies around an initial you choose from A to Z, with four season designs to pick from; beca...
Personalized Initial Season Embroidered Felt Corner Bookmark, Embroidered Corner Bookmark, 26Letters and 4Seasons Bookmark,Christmas gift
 
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The filigree on this maple bookmark is engraved deep enough to feel with a fingertip, and the edges carry inlaid strips of darker hardwood. It measures 6 inches by 1, the copper-coloured rope tassel is included, the back can be engraved too, and the ...
Ornate Design Handmade Engraved Wooden Bookmark with Tassel - Made in the USA

Nightstand Extras

The book has a sleeve and a bookmark; the nightstand itself is still bare. A five-pocket caddy slides under the mattress, a small soy candle burns for about twenty hours, a weighted leather strap holds pages open, a cedar thumb piece does the same jo...

 
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Five pockets hang beside the bed from a flat panel that slides under the mattress, which is where the bedtime book, the glasses, and the remote all end up. The pocket fronts are cotton, red and grey chevrons mixed with a navy Star Wars comic print, t...
Bedside Caddy 5 pocket Dorm Organizer navy/red
 
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Four ounces of soy wax in a small jar, poured for readers: the scent list runs to Rainy Day Reading, Library, Fireplace, Oatmilk Latte, and Earl Grey. The cotton wick gives roughly twenty hours of burn, which works out to a lot of chapters, and the j...
Mini Book Lover Candle, Choose a Scent, Dark Academia Fall Decor
 
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Reading a paperback flat usually takes two hands or a heavy thumb; this weighted leather strap does the holding instead. It is full-grain, vegetable-tanned, stitched around a weighted core with a soft underside that will not mark pages, and at 9.25 i...
Handmade Leather Book Weight, Full-Grain Page Holder, Reading Accessory
 
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Slip a thumb through the hole and the wings of this cedar piece press both pages open, one-handed. It is carved from solid cedar, finished with food-grade mineral oil, and the grain is different on every piece, so the one that arrives will not match ...
Unique Cedar Wood Book Page Holder | Handmade Gift for Book Lovers | Wooden Thumb Bookmark | One-Hand Reading Accessory Artisan Reader Gift
 
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Last in the section, the softest piece of furniture on the list: a pyramid of striped cotton ticking filled with polystyrene balls, which holds a phone, a tablet, an e-reader, or a print book open at reading angle. There is a hanging loop on top, two...
Striped Fabric Tablet Pillow Stand, Handmade Phone Holder