Posted by admin | Posted in Treadmill | Posted on 27-05-2011
- Hold your book or magzine open whole you exercise
- Works on paperbacks, hard cover books & magazines
- Small, lightweight, portable
- use at the top or bottom of you book to read hands free
- easy to turn pages; pull the finished page from one side, tuck under the other side.
Product Description
The FlipKlip Page Clamp Book Holder will be the envy of everybody in the gym! It is designed to help you hold your book or magazine pages open for hands-free reading. People will ask you where you got that Cool Little Blue Book Holder!
User Tip:
For best results, FlipKlip is designed to mount on the book with the spring facing downward, toward the spine.
Mounting FlipKlip upside down (spring up) may cause difficulty of operation.
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Sale Price: $8.95
Total Costumer Reviews:(44)
It doesn’t work with my treadmill, and given the way treadmills now have all the electronic monitors, I can’t see where it could go on a treadmill anywhere. This is a good product for keeping a book open, but not to use on a treadmill.
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Works with any book…Perfect for ANY treadmill, elliptical, bike. Superior to other more expensive bookholders. It’s perfect!!
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I’ve tried a variety of solutions for holding my book open while on a treadmill, including holding it with my hand the whole time and using a bent clothes hanger. I use the FlipKlip every time I work out, with paperback and hardcover books. I don’t have a problem with turning pages, but I did take the tip from another reviewer to put the back protrusions inside the dustcover, but outside the book cover, for hardcover books.
I would also add that it is helpful to play around with placement. For example, the FlipKlip does not have to be exactly in line with the spine of the book. Sometimes it doesn’t hold the book open flat, and in that case I move the FlipKlip more to one side, which helps a lot.
It works well, and I have bought a few more to use with textbooks and cookbooks around the house. It’s the best, most reasonable little gadget I have found for this purpose.
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The FlipKlip has worked quite well for me at the gym. I’ve used it for large hardcover and trade paperbacks. I have no trouble turning the pages and I’ve found it much preferred to my old method (rubber bands) which kept leaving me with little tears in the pages. As for smaller paperbacks, I’ve found it works best when I’m towards the middle of the book (meaning things were rather even on each side). I was very happy with my FlipKlip relationship until, tragically, one day my FlipKlip broke. AGGH! I emailed the manufacturer (BlueZap) and received a very nice and prompt response from Bob (the inventor) who addressed my concerns and immediately made good on the one-year warranty by sending me a new FlipKlip. A real response from a real person?! A miracle in this day in age! A good product + good customer service = a product I’d certainly recommend.
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Being that I am doing a lot more book reading these days, and need to read at every opportunity, I turned to Google to look for a book holder-opener to use when I am on the treadmill (having misplaced the other doodad I was using). The first product to pop up was the a cool little book holder called the FlipKlip. The FlipKlip is manufactured by BlueZap in beautiful C’oeur d’Alene, Idaho. The owner of the company is Bob Begin, also known as Mr. Wizard.
The premise behind the FlipKlip is to keep a book open when you are engaged in activities where two hands are not necessarily available – such as knitting, typing, cooking and exercising. Eureka – the treadmill – perfect!
Recommended places to use the FlipKlip (as cited on the BlueZap website) are:
* On your computer desktop
* Reading bed
* In the kitchen (perfect for holding open a cookbook)
* On the bus or train
* On the airplane tray table
* At Home
* At the Gym
* At School
* While Eating Lunch
I have been trying out the product for a couple weeks, and it has proven to be quite useful and durable. I am getting a lot more reading done, and it encourages me to get on the treadmill, where the tendency (or excuse?!) may be “I need to read; I can’t spare this hour on the treadmill.” The FlipKlip kills two birds with one stone! I have used other gadgets over the years, but the FlipKlip tops them all!
I appreciate the fact that it’s a perfect size, and, when not in use, it can be clamped onto the book for safe and easy portability. It comes in a variety of colors: Ortega Green, Deep Charcoal, Twilight Purple, Sunset Pink and Aruba Blue. And, best of all, it is manufactured in the USA!
The FlipKlip was generously provided to me by Bob Begin at BlueZap for review purposes.
Reviewed by Andrea Schultz – Ponderings by Andrea – [...]
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