Make a thumb hanger for your nook with sugru

"A Thumb hanger?", you ask, "What the heck is a thumb hanger?"

Why, It's a way to hang your nook from your thumb of course!

Again you ask, "But why!?". And again, I astutely answer, "Because!"

Prior to this wonderful invention, you would actually have to *grip* the nook, while reading it.

"But doesn't your hand get tired from gripping a nook during those epic reading sessions?"

Indeed it does, indeed it does. Thus was the motivation for this novel method of nook hold-up-age-ness.

Enough yacking! On with the show.

Step 1 Tools of the trade!

"So what do I need to construct this wonderful new method of hold-up-age-ness for the nook?"

I'm glad you asked! Because that's the whole point of this step. If you hadn't asked, I would have had to come up with some other way to introduce this step. And to be frank, I'm really quite short on ideas for other ways to begin this step, so it's quite fortuitous that you asked that particular question at this point.

Fortunately, the list is quite short. It consists of 4 items, those being:

1. A nook.
It seems a bit pointless to try to improve the hold-up-age-ability for an item you don't have

2. A hand
Yes indeed. You need one (preferably two!) of these wonderful tools that nature has bestown upon us to allow us the wonderful ability of manipulating things

3. Sugru
This wonderfully magical material is the keystone of this project

4. Scissors (or other sharp instrument)
It is not recommended to try to open these packages with your teeth. Do you really want sugru-mouth? Well, do you?

Comments

[mrmath]

A little off topic, but Adam Savage of Mythbusters pointed out that the name Nook e-reader is really a poor choice of a product name. Say it really fast, and you'll see why.

[JesusFreke]

I don't get it

[mrmath]

It's the Nook e-reader, or the "Nooky" reader. You can't use the Nooky reader when your wife is busy using her iPad.

[djlewis725]

sorry but i still dont get it. whats a nooky?

[mrmath]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nooky

[JesusFreke]

Ah. I was trying "nooknooknooknook" :)

[mrmath]

While nooknooknooknook is pretty funny, it's not quite as funny as the Nooky Reader. :)

[JesusFreke]

Right. That's why I didn't get it at first :)

[projectsugru]

hey JesusFreke, I am loving your Instructable, hilarious, but also totally ingenious :)

[JesusFreke]

Thanks! Glad you liked it :). I was feeling a bit.. erm.. goofy, that day :)

[l8nite]

what is sugru usually used for ? Ive never heard of it

[adamazing]

It's a silicone rubber that comes in 5g sachets. You can mold it by hand for 30 minutes after opening. It then cures in ~24 hours and bonds, they claim, to lots of stuff. Search Instructables for sugru. There's also a gallery of hacks using sugru at their website. (I'm not associated with them either, just a happy customer)

[JesusFreke]

It's a fairly new product. There are already other instructables that show how other people have used it. You can see more at www.sugru.com (I'm not associated with them in any way, I just like their product! :)