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A Short Guide to Giving Books as Gifts

How to choose a book for someone else, and what to write on the first page.

A Short Guide to Giving Books as Gifts

A book is one of the most personal gifts you can give. It says: I thought about you, and I thought about what you might like to think about. Here is how we help people choose.

Start with the last book they loved

Not their favorite genre: their last great read. A reader who loved a slow family saga may well love a slow seafaring one.

Consider the edition

A hardcover feels like an occasion; a paperback slips into a coat pocket. For readers who travel, an ebook or audiobook edition might be the most useful choice of all.

Write something inside

A date, a line about why you chose it, your name. Years from now, that inscription may be the part they treasure most.

A demo article for the Foliowick theme. The books mentioned are fictional.


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