Five Great Gift Ideas for Readers and Word Nerds

If you’re like me, you are frantically  joyfully searching for meaningful gifts for the people you love.  And you’re running out of time to do it.

No worries, I’ve collected some unique gift ideas for the book lovers in your life.  Or, for you.  😉

Personalized Book Plates from Zazzle  Customize one of the many cute designs to create personalized book plate stickers. These are fun and inexpensive, running about $5 a sheet, depending on the size you choose.   I want no mistake about who owns my books, so I chose the 3″ size!

Zazzle book plates

Personal Library Kit by Knock Knock  Be a generous reader, but keep track of who has your books with these “old-school” library cards and book pockets.  I found it cheapest on Amazon for $13.29.

Personal library kit

Aquala Bathtub Caddy from Umbra.com  This bamboo tray has a built-in soap dish, wine glass holder (!) and fold away book rack.  This gift is a bit luxurious, priced at $50.  A girl can dream…

Bathtub caddy

Book Rest Lamp by Suck UK  Since I’ve launched into the expensive, I’m gonna stay on that trajectory.  I found this book lamp at Real Simple .  It’s pricey at $71, but very cool, you must admit.  Almost as cool as…

book-rest-lamp-ictcrop_gal

Lumio Lamps from hellolumio.com  Whoa.  You’ve gotta check these out.  They are portable lamps that fold into the shape of a hardcover book.  Just open the “book”, and an accordion-like “shade” opens to generate soft light.  Some Lumio lights have USB micro-chargers for cell phones and wooden pegs or a strap for mounting/ hanging.  These incredible babies aren’t cheap – $125 for the Mini Lumio, $190 for the full-sized Walnut.  But if you want to give something different…

Lumio

 

And I’ll put in yet another plug for the affordable and totally artsy/literary Postertext posters.

The Book Thief via Postertext
The Book Thief via Postertext

 Find anything you like?  Better yet, can you share any other ideas and add to this list?

Don’t forget about the My Favorite Books of 2015 Giveaway.  Share the best book you read in 2015 (it does not have to be published in 2015) and enter my giveaway for a book of your own!  Don’t forget to tell me why you liked the book you enter.  Details at the What Was Your Favorite Book of 2015 post.  I’ve gotten a great response and should have a giant book list for you by Monday, December 14.

Thanks for stopping by, and happy shopping!

 

Julia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julia Tomiak
I believe in the power of words to improve our lives, and I help people find interesting words to read. Member of SCBWI.

4 Comments

  1. I saw bronze book darts on another gift list – bronze book darts, to mark not only your page but the line you were on. There are a bunch on Amazon for about $15 for 125 of them.

    That light is amazing!

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