Jesse, I obsconsed the book holder from my wife, she uses it to hold her cookbooks while she cooksThe coffee cans you used were a great idea but, I was trying to find your clothes hangers in the picture. Perhaps they aren't it the picture or I just can't see them. As far as the book holder goes, you could take a piece of wood, book size and put a shelf on the lower edge and then a short 1" piece on the shelf to keep the pages from closing and then something to hold it up at and angle, like a stand or maybe you can go to the dollar store and by one of those japanese wooden stands for holding fans of plates on thier sides. You know the ones I'm talking about. They are usually dark in color and fold in the middle.