A book having a plurality of pages bound together to form the book. At least one page of a spread of the book has a flap movable with respect to the page. The flap has a flap recess. The page has a page recess. In a closed position, the flap is positioned within the page recess. A structural element, such as a pop-up element, is housed within the flap recess and/or the page recess. As the flap moves from the closed position to an open position, the structural element moves or raises above the page surface to move the structural element into an activated position. In the closed position, the structural element is hidden from view when looking at the page.

A system and method for a journal. The system includes a journal which has a cover coupled to a binder. The binder is coupled to a plurality of journal pages, and at least one of the journal pages has at least one entry. The system further includes a printer for printing a photograph and a printer page for loading into the printer. A photograph can be taken with a device such as a camera or smart phone. Thereafter, the photograph is sent to the printer. The photograph can be detached from the printer page and adhered to one of the entries on the journal pages.

A book made up of pages is described. At least some of the pages contain both space for manually-created visual content, and instances of preprinted indexing target symbols. Each of the indexing target symbol instances has at least a portion within one inch of three unbound page edges. When the book is closed, the instances of each particular indexing target symbol are in a substantially collinear stack that is substantially perpendicular to the faces of the pages.

Printed matter including a viewed-page detection electrode provided to a primary surface of a first printed medium among a plurality of bound printed media, the viewed-page detection electrode being so disposed that, when the printed matter is closed, at least part of the electrode provided to a first page overlaps with an electrode provided to a second page facing the first page; a selected-area detection electrode provided to the primary surface and located at a position different from the viewed-page detection electrode; a first determination unit connected to the viewed-page detection electrode to determine a page that is currently open based on capacitance generated in the viewed-page detection electrode; and a second determination unit connected to the selected-area detection electrode to determine whether the selected-area detection electrode of the open page has been touched by a user based on capacitance generated in the selected-area detection electrode.

A book having a chewable element or a portion that can be used as a teether or a teething element, for example, for child to get dental stimulation when the child inserts the book or a part of the book into a mouth. The book includes a plurality of pages and a spine positioned along edge portions of the pages. The edge portions of the pages can be secured directly or indirectly to the chewable element or the portion. The chewable element can have a bore to accommodate a ring. A second or another chewable element can be secured or positioned at a distance from the first chewable element.

The present invention relates to a multi-purpose three-dimensional object intended to be applied in a three-dimensional form by applying a planar object composed of a pattern portion and a base portion to various uses. That is, the multi-purpose three-dimensional object of the present invention comprises: a plate-shaped pattern portion (2) having a pattern image (21) in which the image is expressed so as to be visually noticed, and a base portion (3) coupled to one side of the pattern portion (2). According to the present invention, by the addition of various functions and design elements to the pattern portion (2), there is an advantage of being used as a three-dimensional interior decoration means or as an educational means for infants.

One embodiment is a book includes a plurality of pages, a plurality of magnets, and a sensor. The plurality of the magnets generate a combined magnetic field strength, which is variable depending on positions of the pages on which the magnets are disposed. The sensor senses the combined magnetic field strength and generates a varying signal based on a varying of the combined magnetic field strength when at least one page is moved. The varying signal indicates a position of at least one page in the book.

A two-sided articulating comprises a paper having a front and back sides, an adhesive pad, and a hinge. The adhesive, on one side of the pad, is configured for repeatedly and removably securing the pad to a flat portion of another object. The hinge, disposed between and connecting the paper and the adhesive pad, is configured to fold the paper 180° relative to the adhesive pad to change between the two configurations. In the first configuration, the front side of the paper is suitable to present a first message while the entire paper is coplanar with the adhesive pad. In the second configuration, the back side of the message means is suitable to present a second message while a majority of the back side of the paper is coplanar with the adhesive pad while no external force is applied to the writing portion of the two-sided articulated note.

A book workstation includes a left cover and a right cover, a center spine, and pages sequentially arranged and bound to the center spine. The workbook includes at least one of: a) a left-side underlay and a left-side overlay, each bound to the left-side cover via a left-side spine, or b) a right-side underlay and a right-side overlay, each bound to the right-side cover via a right-side spine. In an open position, the pages can be split into left and right stacks. Indicia on a top page of the left stack are equivalent to indicia on a top page of the right stack. Relative orientations of the indicia enable each of a pair of users to view the indicia on one of the pages at the same time. Each underlay and overlay can be interleaved between pages of one stack, or placed on the top page of that stack.