BookArc tabletop stand for iPad review

In amongst the wave of iPad cases we've received sits this useful BookArc tabletop stand for iPad from Twelve South.

Stands for the iPhone and MacBook are nothing new, and Twelve South itself offers a range of MacBook stands that enable you to raise the device off the desk so it work more like a mini desktop computer. iPhone stands, such as the Xtand for iPhone also tilt the screen towards you enabling you to watch the display without holding the device.

On the iPad, however, this form of stand offers an additional functionality. As you might know, the iPad can be used with either the Apple Keyboard Dock or a bluetooth keyboard (typically the Apple Wireless Keyboard) for long writing stints. This is great, except for the fact that the Apple Keyboard Dock has wobble issues which lowered it in our estimation.

So you can use a stand like this along with a bluetooth keyboard to do some serious work on the iPad.

The BookArc stand is fairly straightforward. You place the iPad in the top and it holds it up. It can hold the iPad either vertically or horizontally (another advantage over using the iPad Keyboard Dock, which limits your work to the vertical positioning) and a small recessed part at the front enables access to the Home button. The dock connector slips underneath enabling you to charge and sync the the iPad without having to remove it from the stand.

It also comes with two rubberised inserts, one for the regular iPad, the other designed to offer a bit more width if you have the iPad inside a case.