London Book Fair 2010

We have had lots of favourable Press & Customer Reviews

Reviews

Featured in The Guardian's Reader's Rooms series

David Lodge, Author

Graham Swift, Author

Naomi Alderman, Author (with her Gran's old cookbook and Bookease to prop it up)

Press

Sunday Express It helps to have your hands free when you're cooking, so why not keep recipes comfortably on display with this witty bookchair? Available in a range of colours, patterns and sizes, these deckchair-style stands will also come in handy as computer copy holders, study aids, for reading in bed or while you're eating. Sesame, Open University Publication.

The latest of Gary's simple yet effective study aids is the Type & Write, which is, as its name suggests, a special angled mini table-top desk on which to compose that TMA or simply scribble notes. The new invention - which comes in a choice of an A4 or double-A4 size, both of which can take a laptop, putting the screen directly in the user's field of vision - has also impressed the Open University's occupational health adviser. "It's excellent," says Val Powley, "It will really benefit students as it brings the writing surface up closer to them. It's also very well made and very well priced."

The Guardian The bookease is attractive, compact and capable of dealing with even the outsized books that some publishers insist on publishing. It's usable, needless to say, in any setting where you need hands-free access to reading material.

The Mirror Think of sunnier times when working at your computer, reading or writing essays with one of the Company's breezy products. Designed to look like deckchairs, the bookchair holds books, magazines or papers at an angle for easy reading. The Type & Write can be used as a document-holder but also lets you write at an angle - often more comfortable for back and neck-ache sufferers. Brightnotes is like a windbreaker with wipeable boards for messages.

Daily Record Gain without pain. The bookchair was designed with physiotherapists and osteopaths and reduces neck and back pain.

The Guardian Novel Idea. Worried that lifting all those glasses of champagne will leave you too weak to hold that paperback? Why not get yourself a bookchair. (It's a deckchair designed for books to sit on)

The Sun The gift of health. The Bookchair is for people who get neck and backache reading with a book resting flat.

Daily Mail Read blockbusters on the beach or in bed with a bookchair.

The Parkinson Magazine We don't normally feature new products, but couldn't resist the bookchair, a handy, lightweight and attractive bookstand which allows people with disabilities, pain or stiffness, to prop their books up with ease. It can hold a range of sizes, and can be used at a table, desk, or even in bed.

Sesame Open University Publication It was twelve months ago that Gary Lancet launched Bookchair - his antidote to back pain and neck ache brought on by hours poring over OU texts. The idea was classically simple: a bookstand based on a design which has outlasted donkey rides, swimming caps and mats which take on a life of their own on British beaches. Business is now booming, and for all those who've ever risen at 6am to bag a poolside chair with their towel - Gary's next enterprise is a towel-shaped bookmark.

The Express While reclining on the beach or at home, how about giving your book a break? Prop the old tome on its very own deckchair. And the beauty is, it doesn't require suntan lotion.

Publishers News Bookchair - an innovative and affordable new bookstand based on the design of the humble deckchair was initially developed for desktop reading, including reading while eating, and is also suitable for holding cookery books up while working in the kitchen.

The Times Don't bend over that book on your desk; this deckchair style reading bookstand reduces back and neck ache while reading. It is also useful for cookery books.

The Independent Information magazine Included as one of 50 best last minute Christmas presents. "Shaped like a deckchair, this will ease the pain of any grey panther reading in bed or at a table. It can also be used as a cookbook-holder in the kitchen. 'It's an attractive alternative to the traditional common reading stand, and ideal for those with neck and back problems,' says Richard Ingrams"

The Observer "Well Read. If you were given lots of books yesterday, you might want to order one of these. Gary Lancet invented the Bookchair - a bookstand for reading - after suffering neck and backache from too many hours spend hunched over tables while studying. An instant success, Bookchair comes with some official endorsements including recommendations from Alexander Technique teachers, osteopaths and physiotherapists"

The Financial Times "Mr Lancet is very serious about how his product can help people. As well as being recommended by ergonomists and physiotherapists, Bookchair has been adopted by a number of NHS hospitals to help bed-ridden patients read, and the National Federation of Access Centres, which offers advice to disabled students. 'Bookchair is also helpful for teaching youngsters to adopt a better posture early on so they can avoid neck and back pain in the future' ". What's On

"Bookchair is basically a chair to rest your book on, a bookrest if you will. You may have this pre– formed image of bookrests being these huge mahogany contraptions used by Victorian women who were too feeble to hold a book. This may be true of others bookrests, but bookchair is a funky, fresh design (based on the deckchair) that wouldn't look out of place in any student's room ( or kitchen for that matter). The bookchair is designed to ease back and neck pain whilst reading at a desk, but also doubles as a nifty cookbook holder or typing rest. It has gained approval from The Open University Occupational Health Team and is manufactured from managed forests."

The Guardian Space "Is Georgette Heyer making your wrist throb? Is that Bang & Olufsen manual crushing your lap area? Why not send your literary favourites on a little holiday with bookchair – a canvas and beechwood device in which your Dick Francis or Dostoevsky can nestle as though sunning itself by the sea. The dechchair meets the lectern (an unlikely pairing) in this attempt to ease the pains caused by that most unnatural of human activities, poring."

The Independent "Bookchair is on sale in a number of top homeware stores. If you're addicted to reading while eating, have never learned to juggle a magazine and a coffee mug in bed, or get backache while reading, you'll wonder how you ever managed without Bookchair. Lacquered, it features two wooden stays which adjust to the width and depth of whatever you're reading including very solid cookery books. "

'Scratch' South Bank University "The bookchair is a new invention by Gary Lancet. We all know of the nightmare of studying where you start as upright individual and become a crumpled, tired and pained person. Reading from a book resting flat has been proved to be bad for you, hence this amazing new invention. It looks like a deckchair and is designed to stop you doing any more damage to your neck or back whilst studying."

London Guildhall University "This nifty little device made its way into the office the other day. Basically it's a deckchair for your books.No it's not as stupid as it seems, as it's a device which has been invented to prevent back and neck ache when you are copying in things over (and have been sitting here typing for the past day, I can say it could definitely come in handy). It can also double up as a cookery book stand, if you've done enough studying and has been endorsed by the Open University Occupational Health Unit. "

Choice "Gary Lancet likes reading at a table, but finds that it gives him a pain in the neck. So he invented a deckchair–style bookstand, which he calls the Bookchair. It's good for people who like to read in bed or while eating, and for anyone finding it diffcuilt to hold a book for a long period."