Like a thin cover of a shoe box, it fits over the book. An extra plastic sheet drapes and covers the exposed part of the book pages.

Keep your books dust-free with Booktop Covers.
-- pashute, May 08 2018

A shoebox cover https://www.wikihow.com/Cover-a-Shoebox
distinct from the shoebox itself [pashute, May 09 2018]

A book sleeve - NOT THIS IDEA https://www.youtube...watch?v=7IepF6yDDBc
[pashute, May 09 2018]

A book storage box - NOT THIS IDEA https://www.lonesta...-blocks-book-sleeve
[pashute, May 09 2018]

Protective book boxes - NOT THIS IDEA http://www.cattailr...tive_book_boxes.htm
[pashute, May 09 2018]

A bookset box - NOT THIS IDEA http://covervault.c...et-mockup-template/
[pashute, May 09 2018]

Many books used to (and some still do) come with a cardboard sleeve like you describe.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 08 2018


<Statler and Waldorf disclaimer/>

Baked and WKTE.
-- 8th of 7, May 08 2018


That's a full cardboard sleeve, which is a pain to pull out and then put back. Here it's just a top. (and thin back)
-- pashute, May 09 2018


Is there one per book (fiddly), or could you provide a wide one, as a dust-awning for a whole shelf?

In the latter case, the cover itself could be dusted off from time to time by a sort of millizamboni. (A nanozamboni sounds better, but you wouldn't be able to watch it work).
-- pertinax, May 09 2018


<- passive/aggressive with links? Maybe it's down to the explanation being shoehorned.

Although, that extra paper folding thing, around a book's cover, probably does need some flaps.
-- wjt, May 10 2018


Perhaps, [pash], it would help if you linked a drawing of what it *does* look like, as well as what it *doesn't*. I'm still not sure what you're describing.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, May 10 2018


I imagine it's an open-book cover - like a dish-cover - for leaving something lying on the desk, so you can pile stuff up on top of it, and the cat doesn't leave personalized bookmarks. Bun proferred.
-- FlyingToaster, May 10 2018



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