Designed by Japanese office goods brand Sogu, this unique bookend relies on a book itself to do the work:
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I don’t know how well it would actually work; presumably you’d have to be choosy about which book you use. In any case, it’s called the 9° Book Stopper and it’s at least a good example of outside-of-the-box thinking.
Source: core77