Glass Book Page Holder

About

Glass Book Page Holder is a product made by the Japanese company Tent designed for the purpose of holding the page of a book open while also keeping the page visible. In 2019, a photograph of the product was used in an image macro series to represent an ironic list that contains no items, typically accompanied by jokes using the phrasal template "a list of X."

Origin

On July 17th, 2013, the website Odditymall^[1] posted a listing for the "Glass Book Page Holder" by the Japanese company Tent^[2] (examples below). They describe the item, "The book on book glass page holder is a transparent piece of glass shaped like a book that holds the pages of your book down while you read through it and was created by a Japanese company called Tent. The glass book holder is great for when you need to eat cheeseburgers and/or sip cola from a big gulp while you read 'Weightloss for Dummies', the glass will hold your pages for you while you fatten up and learn how to lose weight."

Spread

On March 16th, 2016, Redditor ^[3] KP8ch posted an image of the book holder. They captioned the photograph "Paperweight that holds your book open." The post received more than 29,000 points (78% upvoted) and 870 comments in three years.

On August 14th, 2019, Twitter ^[4] user @decasing posted one of the examples. The tweet received more than 3,500 likes and 500 retweets in one week (shown below).

The following day, Twitter^[5] user @timeaways shared another example. The post received more than 20,000 likes and 2,800. @timeaways' other Twitter^[6] account @plainful shared the tweet with the caption "A list of people that wanna date me." The tweet received more than 394,000 likes and 135,000 before deletion (shown below, right).

Following the tweet, others shared the format, using the book as "a list" of people that do not exist (example below, right).

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