Jan 22 2010Sneaky: That's No Book, That's A MacBook!

Looking for that perfect MacBook sleeve that says, "I'm not just a creative, I'm a pretentious creative?" Then you're in luck. Also, probably not that creative. Burned you just got burned.
Called the BookBook, this $79.99 case literally transforms your MacBook into "an antique leather-bound book." Not just for looks, "its hardback sides with reinforced corners protect from impacts [and] the vintage designed spine provide crush protection."
Nice. Now when somebody breaks into your apartment to steal your first edition Shakespeare they're actually getting your MacBook. Haha, the joke's on them!
This Vintage Book Is Your New MacBook Pro Case [iphonesavior]
and
BookBook Case Turns Your MacBook Into Leather-Bound Book [techeblog]
Thanks to Michael and Erin, who have MacBook cases that look like large-print crossword puzzle books.
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Reader Comments
1. tn11 - January 22, 2010 5:36 PM
HEEHEHEHEHEH
2. tn11 - January 22, 2010 5:38 PM
now that i've established my firstardness... thats pretty sweet. kinda steampunky with out,,, well i dunno
3. Blue - January 22, 2010 5:45 PM
That shits getting burned with the next nazi revolution when they outlaw our books and mechanical pencils.
4. ALWAYS 1ST AT GEEKOLO - January 22, 2010 5:47 PM
HAHAAH 1ST AGAIN
I WILL BE TAKING OVER FROM HERE ON OUT GEEK GOERS
NO 1ST WILL BE SAFE
I JUST GOT PAID TO BE 1ST EVERYTIME
WELL WORTH IT
5. MOM - January 22, 2010 5:50 PM
COME home now., skarks rule the surf
6. therealRoboticDeathArmy - January 22, 2010 5:51 PM
ghey
7. bert - January 22, 2010 5:57 PM
Yeah this is geeky, but aren't the fans pointed out the back? things gonna overheat open or closed.
8. Brrrrian - January 22, 2010 6:18 PM
it's like a giant kindle, only more lame!
just sayin.
9. jimmydogballz - January 22, 2010 6:20 PM
the really GAY part is how therealRoboticDeathArmy types the word GAY
10. Cono - January 22, 2010 6:32 PM
Why the hell do people have to post "FIRST!" on every topic? This is all over the net! Who gives a shit if you're first? You're an idiot with nothing constructive to say, and every time you post "FIRST! OMG OMG FIRST!" it makes you look like a complete jackass. Do you honestly sit on Geekologie pressing refresh over and over just so you can post "FIRST!" and make yourself look like a complete moron who has nothing important to say?
11. therealRoboticDeathArmy - January 22, 2010 6:47 PM
@ JIMMYDOGBALLZ thank you sir for taking the time to make sure you spelled my name correctly, even the letters that are capitalized. I must ask you though why do you keep using jimmydogballz as your name if you hate it so much? Could it be that you possibly have a ghey crush on me? Or it is most likely due to the fact that you love dog ballz. Just admit it, the truth will set you free. At least that's what your mom said when she showed me her penis.
Also in another altercation we had. You said you posted comments relative to GW's post. Recently you haven't been holding true to that. For one hate comment on me I would like you to post 2 comments related to the subject GW posts.
Also, ELEVENTH! OMG OMG ELEVENTH!
12. Krys - January 22, 2010 6:57 PM
I like it.
13. naas - January 22, 2010 6:59 PM
Good friday geeko's... I missed spending the day on the boards with you today, especially because it's friday also. I also feel I couldn't have picked a better moment to walk in while trRDA & jimmydogballz go at it.
Has gay naas been commenting in my place & making me look gheyer then cummy drops on a sailors mustache? I hope so.... I haven't been here to agree with him & fight back if not
@the post. neat-old fashioned something. Whoever said steampunk before I agree with. I need to read back the earlier posts
14. therealRoboticDeathArmy - January 22, 2010 6:59 PM
NO ONE GIVES A SHIT THAT YOU LIKE IT!!
YOU EITHER HAVE SOMETHING NEGATIVE TO SAY OR SAY NOTHING AT ALL..... BRUTEFAG!!
15. naas - January 22, 2010 7:15 PM
@10 the dead horse has been beaten to an unrecognizable bloody pulp (like Ollie Williams' poopshooter) my friend. Unfortunately in the case with these stupid kids, giving retards negative attention trying to question their being retarded is undeserved attention all in itself
16. naas - January 22, 2010 7:16 PM
...saying that is an insult to the mentally handicapped. I apologize for that previous statement
17. jimmydogballz - January 22, 2010 8:00 PM
I think the zipper would bug the heck out of me with this case. I'd rather have fake pages with some sort of hidden clasp.
therealRoboticDeathArmy... dude I don't take the time, I just copy/paste your name from a previous comment.
why Jimmydogballz? Well if you can remember and I know it was all of 3 weeks ago, you started in with the whole dog ballz comments. At the time I didn't realize this is your thing (like Closet Nerd using "just sayin"). Since I knew that another Jimmy was posting occassionally I decided to clarify that I was the same person you were bickering with so I added the dogballz and decided to keep it. I know you feel all warm and cozy inside but as you mentioned it is just my mom's penis in your butt.
18. jimmydogballz - January 22, 2010 8:02 PM
I like the worn out look of the case.
welcome back real naas.
19. therealRoboticDeathArmy - January 22, 2010 8:57 PM
@naas it's ok jimmy didn't take offense from your statement being that he is handicrapped. He thinks I've been bickering with him, but I was actually talking about the other Jimmy.
And as you can see I have Jimmy in the palm of my hand. I tell him to post 2 comments on the subject at hand and he does... I tell him to go do derelick his ballz and he does... I tell him to make a man juice cocktail and he does....
...By the way Jimmy how did you like my link in the other post?... Did it clarify a few things for you?... Probably not being that you reek of twink so bad I can smell you whenever you post a comment. ooooh major diss right there hombre!!!
20. naas - January 22, 2010 11:25 PM
@17 hahaha
@18 thank you
@19 niiice man, well done
21. James - January 23, 2010 2:08 AM
That is very, very stylin. Thought I wonder if bert's point about the fan and overheating is apt to spoil the fun.
22. cabbo - January 23, 2010 7:06 AM
@13, you stoned, or under sedation in a hospital?
Huh, the unquenchable thirst of the troll...
I like the case, but... this is a place for geeks, right? Geeks who traditionally have their books thrown out of their hand by those dastardly jocks, right? This is a dangerous game.
23. Hasabrain - January 23, 2010 1:45 PM
@10
Although I agree that firstards are firstards ... somebody has to post first, they're not necessarily sitting there waiting for the article to pop up; I've never been sure where this logic has come from; I always figured one of the hundreds of thousands of regular visitors happens to land when the article does, click on it and go "oooh, no ones commented ... FI!!IRST!!!11".
Just sayin'
24. naas - January 23, 2010 4:08 PM
@23 making them an asshat, for being so knowingly & uncreatively annoying by shtting that word out instead of some attempt of the latter
25. Vanessa - January 23, 2010 5:18 PM
HAHA at GWs joke
26. Foxfire - January 23, 2010 10:53 PM
@10
First post! (for me at geekologie!)
Why do you care that people post first? Are you butthurt that your ever so spry and insightful comment didn't make it in the top slot? Aw poor baby. I mean it only takes all of a second to read the word 'first' and then move to the next comment. Suck it up big boy and learn to mousewheel down a page.
Also it's the internet you're talking about here.If people had important things to say they'd definately be wearing pants, not posting pant-less, as is required by internet postage law. Which I am certain we're all doing. Well I'm certain I'm doing it and I assume everyone else is doing it as well.
Oops I had nothing important to say, probably shouldn't have commented. Oh whut? That sums up your post. ZOMG.
27. Foxfire - January 23, 2010 10:55 PM
Edit: Second post.
My girlfriend just pointed out that I got so distracted that I forgot to comment on the article.
The macbookBook looks pretty cool. Now they just need to start making different styles and comic book covers so we can have Batman and Spiderman and Wolverine comic covers for our laptops.
That would be gold.
28. I have a crush on GW - January 24, 2010 2:04 AM
need a netbook version, those would actually look like a book
29. MarĂa - January 24, 2010 4:19 PM
I love that it claims it LITERALLY transforms your MacBook into an antique, leather-bound book, because it doesn't. It literally encases it in something that looks like an antique, leather-bound book.
Just saying, is all.
30. Smitty - January 24, 2010 7:37 PM
Oh come on, nobody has yet made a reference to this being "The Book of Jobs"?
You know... In the Bible? That old book... No, not that one. Yeah, that's the--Oh, screw it. Nevermind.
31. Nadia - January 24, 2010 7:38 PM
i can only afford the sleeve :(
32. joe - January 24, 2010 11:08 PM
save your macbook from THEFT too!
dumb criminals dont steal books
33. Milkman - January 25, 2010 1:23 PM
pretentious and overpriced, just the way i like it
34. loop - January 25, 2010 6:16 PM
Hey where can i buy one of those?
link?
35. RK6 - January 27, 2010 10:50 AM
MacBookBook?!?
Who the France would buy one of these?
Suggestion - BUY A FECKING BOOK!! Infact while you're at it, buy a decent slaptop.
Mac's are for computing spesh-tards & the lack of venting to the rear of this SEALED case proves my point quite nicely.
I give this product a few months before it's withdrawn due to idiot Mac users melting their computers by trying to surf Facetube for eleventay billion hours on the trot without removing the slaptop from it's badly designed monstrosity of a case.
This thing is a total fail.
Buy a decent (non Mac) laptop & then if you really have to; jump over to Fleabay to source a pointless antique book to ascertain the desired (ridiculous) 'look'.
Meh, looks like I've popped my posting cherry...... EEEEEE AWWWW
36. Fever Theme - March 15, 2010 10:30 PM
unbelieveable!
I think we need one.