Page Keeper

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A gadget for keeping open big book pages with your thumb while reading. My coworker spotted a similar item in one of those "strange Japanese product designs" articles. She asked me if I could print her one based on the low-res photo she showed me. It's a fairly simple design, so I quickly sketched out the 2D outline in Illustrator and then went through a complicated process to get it into OpenSCAD using various techniques I'm still learning. I'm sure there's an easier way to build the model, so please feel free to share any tips you might have. UPDATE: After posting this, I discovered that it wasn't the first one. Without knowing the right terminology, I was looking for the wrong thing. It looks like this design was already here first: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1120 and this is newer and closer to my design: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1747