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We’ve added long-term test notes on our pick for a traditional cookbook stand, the Clear Solutions Deluxe Large Cookbook Holder with Cherry Base.

If you regularly read recipes on a tablet, an e-reader, or a smartphone, or even in an old-school cookbook, you could use a solid stand. After testing dozens of device and book stands, we’re confident we’ve found the best models for most kitchens. For your electronics, the Stump Stand offers the best value. Designed to work with any device, it supports more viewing angles than the competition and sits more solidly on the counter; it’s also one of the easiest stands to store. For books, we like the Clear Solutions Deluxe Large Cookbook Holder with Cherry Base, which has a sturdier base and a better splatter shield than any other stand we’ve found.

This conveniently small stand, which is compatible with tablets, e-readers, and smartphones, has grippy material and a weighted base that makes it more stable than similar-size competitors.

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The Stump Stand is a 4-inch piece of silicone molded to fit just about any device less than half an inch thick. Its small size makes it easy to store, but thanks to its weighted base and grippy material, the Stump Stand can support devices as large as an iPad Air.

If you want a bigger stand for larger and heavier devices, we like the @Rest. It’s a bit bulky, though, and harder to store than the Stump Stand.

If you primarily use a tablet, we found Heckler Design’s @Rest Universal Tablet Stand to be the most sturdy stand. It’s constructed of heavy steel, so it doesn’t wobble, and it offers two convenient reading angles with space for your tablet to charge while in the stand. This model is also one of the few stands that can accommodate some laptops, such as the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.

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This sturdy, adjustable stand has a heavier base and a larger acrylic splatter shield than we’ve found on other models. It also offers the best design for hassle-free page turning.

For holding traditional paper recipes and cookbooks, we suggest the Clear Solutions Deluxe Large Cookbook Holder with Cherry Base, which was better than any other stand we tested at holding books of various thicknesses and weights. Its large, hinged acrylic shield offers the greatest overall protection against splatters and allows for easier page turning. Though it's on the larger side, it folds flat for convenient storage.

This stand isn’t as sturdy or quite as easy to use as the Deluxe, but it stores more easily on a shelf and multitasks as a holder for both traditional cookbooks and tablets.

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For smaller kitchens, we’d go for the Joseph Joseph CookBook. It sacrifices some stability and lacks a splatter guard, and you can’t turn cookbook pages as easily as with the Deluxe. But it folds compactly and will also double as a tablet holder.

For electronic devices—such as tablets, e-readers, or phones—you’ll need to find a sturdy model that resists tipping over or shaking too badly when you tap the device’s screen but also makes inserting and removing the device easy.

Dan Frakes, The Wirecutter’s senior editor for gear and Apple products, has tested many device stands for The Wirecutter, as well as during his time at Macworld, so we relied on his expertise and experience when narrowing down our selections for device stands. For electronic devices—such as tablets, e-readers, or phones—you’ll need to find a sturdy model that resists tipping over or shaking too badly when you tap the device’s screen but also makes inserting and removing the device easy. The optimal stand for electronics should also be adjustable and allow space for you to charge your device while you have it in the stand. Ideally, the design will look nice, too.

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We considered stands specific to each device as well as those that could hold multiple kinds of gadgets. Additionally, we looked for stands that didn’t take up a lot of space on a kitchen counter and could easily hide in a cabinet. We ruled out collapsible portable stands in favor of sturdier desktop stands, because in general such collapsible models sacrificed the stability and weight necessary for devices in a kitchen setting. Although we didn’t encounter a stand that included a plastic cover for splatter protection, we did find that device pouches designed for specific gadgets did the trick. We then tested the stands by positioning tablets and phones in the holders and navigating their screens to see if the devices would wobble or tip over with applied pressure. We also took note of how easily we could position and adjust our devices in each stand.

For traditional cookbooks, we looked for sturdy, adjustable stands that could accommodate different book thicknesses and angles for ease of reading. We wanted a stand with a solid base to hold heavy cookbooks without wobbling, and a large shield to prevent book pages from splatters. A hinged shield allows for easier page flipping; shields that don’t hinge require you to lift the entire book out of the stand just to turn the page. Although bigger models take up more counter space, we found they were better at accommodating books of different sizes.

We tested the book stands on a variety of books ranging from 5¼ by 7¾ inches when closed (1 pound, 3 ounces) to 10½ by 13¼ inches when closed (6 pounds, 11 ounces), as well as on magazines, three-ring binders, standard printer paper, and 5-by-8-inch note cards, each time considering the stands’ stability and adjustability. For models that included a splatter guard, we looked at how well they covered the surface area of different-size books and how easy they were to fold down in order to turn the page.

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The Stump Stand is the best stand we’ve found for accommodating nearly any device, including phones, e-readers, and tablets. Molded from a single piece of silicone (available in a number of colors) with a metal weight inside for stability, the Stump Stand measures just 4 inches across but remains heavy enough to hold an iPad Air in portrait orientation. This product is one of our picks in our guide to iPhone and iPad accessories, but it works with non-Apple products, too.

The Stump Stand accommodates most cases up to half an inch thick. Grooves in the stand help it provide more viewing angles than other stands we looked at: nearly upright, roughly 30 degrees from vertical, and a low position for typing on the screen. (The front of the Stump Stand even has a handy Home-button cutout so that you can easily wake up your device or exit an app.)

The grippy-silicone base keeps the holder from moving and is easier to clean compared with the bases of other stands. It’s the smallest stationary stand we found, so you can easily stash it away in a kitchen drawer or cupboard when you’re not using it. The Stump Stand does wobble a little when you tap the device’s screen in portrait orientation, but we think this is forgivable since the stand offers compatibility with so many devices, supports a range of reading angles, and occupies minimal counter space.

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If you have more counter space, we also like the Heckler Design @Rest Universal Tablet Stand, which was the most sturdy of all the tablet stands we tested. It’s bulkier than the Stump Stand, and it has only two viewing angles (30 and 60 degrees), but it offers more stability for bigger tablets and will even work with some laptops.

Changing the angle or tweaking the stand for a thicker case is quick and easy: Simply slide the included pegs into the correct slots on the stand. Machined cable slots let you charge your tablet or laptop while it’s in the @Rest.

We considered the CTA Digital 2-in-1 Kitchen Mount for tablets. Its ingenious design allows for inconspicuous mounting under a kitchen cabinet, or you can adjust it to turn it into a tabletop stand. While we love the versatility of this holder, we didn’t try it in this round of testing, so we can’t give it a solid recommendation. However, we plan to revisit this tablet holder in future updates.

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The Clear Solutions Deluxe Large Cookbook Holder with Cherry Base outperformed every model we tested. With the heaviest, sturdiest base among the models in our test group, it supported the weight and thickness of even the heftiest cookbooks. And its hinged, extra-wide acrylic shield provided more splatter protection and allowed for easier page turning than the designs of the two other traditional stands we tried.

You can position the 8-by-11-inch acrylic back support vertically to hold a piece of paper and very tall books, or horizontally for small to medium-size books. You can also fit the back support into any of several slots in the base to accommodate various book thicknesses. This design provides a much wider range of positions than most other stands offer.

While it looks flimsy, the acrylic back support of the Deluxe Large Cookbook Holder is surprisingly strong and designed to fit seamlessly into base slots spaced 1 inch apart to accommodate various book thicknesses.

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Though it’s the largest model we