There are only 18 days before Christmas and we can already feel the Yuletide Season! Shops displaying holiday icons, FM radios playing Christmas songs, shopping malls offering great sales are some signs that the festive season is arriving. In this time, the spirit of love is apparent in the air and the art of giving gifts is also common. Along with that comes the most common problem some of us have – what shall I give him/her?
For this post, I am offering my list of gift suggestions for us, bookworms! Who else? Now, for a change, and as what the title suggests, this list won’t contain any book recommendation. Instead, I came up with some things that I feel are necessary for our lives of living with books.
Let’s cut the chase and go to these gift ideas!
1. Kindle/E-book readers. I know some vowed to read the printed words, but the world is changing and we cannot ignore the advantages a portable reader has. Amazon recently released Kindle Paperwhite and there are good reviews about it. Living in a country where Amazon is not that popular, many of us here do not own a Kindle, but I think I will try to own one in the future.
2. Bookbags. For those who love hard copies of books, a book bag will be your best friend. This ensures that your loved and well-valued books won’t be exposed with the elements, unless you joined them with chocolate wrappers inside your bag. More importantly, a book bag will enable you to travel more books with you wherever you go.
3. New and better bookshelves. I think it is already given that we have our own shelves, but as we acquire more books, the world of our beloved pages become small and we need to purchase another house for them. So there goes another bookshelf.
4. Stylish bookmarks. Even some books do not want us to put them down and instead finish in one sitting, some still need breaks so bookmarks are necessary! Find something that will surely fit the reader’s personality, and you will immediately get one score in the reader’s heart.
5. Unique bookends. If you have enough space in your shelf, the next problem will be on how to ensure that your books won’t fall over. Bookends are created for this. Try to get something with unique design, too!
6. Bendable book lights. Even if our eye doctors prohibit us from tiring our eyes much and using them even in the dark, nothing can stop us from finishing a novel. So thank you for those who devised this new creation – book lights! This takes us the hassle from reading in the dark by clipping the device in the book. No need to light up the entire room, then!
7. Flag highlighters. Some of us highlight our books for those quotable quotes a character mentioned. Some even want to mark an entire page because of an important revelation in that installment. Whatever the case may be, we do not have to damage our books by putting dog ears on them. With highlighters and post-its, we can save folding our books and decreasing its value.
8. Notepad/journal. Others may find actions mentioned in number seven horrifying, so they are contented writing quotes and other things in a journal. Or sometimes, they use this to list the books they have read/wanting to read for a month!
9. Comfortable couch (foot rest can be an option). Nothing can compare with the feeling of seating in your favorite chair in the center of the room while reading a book. Try to buy a design as above so you will really feel surrounded by books!
10. T-shirts and coffee mugs bearing favorite authors and characters. For fans, we love to have some book memorabilia – may it be signed books, t-shirts, mugs. These things remind us of the authors and characters we know and loved and they inspire us to read more.
So there goes my list of gift ideas for bookworms. There are other nominees, and should you think those two are not enough, here are the other three which did not make it to the top ten.
1. Hot cup of coffee, chocolate, or tea. Others prefer to concentrate deeply in what they are reading, while some fellows like me love to drink something while drinking. For us, another gift idea could be a hot drink while we read. It can be a bag of Arabic coffee or pure green tea.
2. A CD of Moxy Fruvous’ My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors. This album has the song My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors which tells the story of a man who loves a bookworm and their lives together. It is hilarious, but true.
3. Perfume which smells like book. Bookworms love the smell of books, and perhaps some wants to smell like one!
That’s it for now. I will be going to my company’s holiday party tomorrow and I hope to get some things I have mentioned above. Just kidding! I hope this list helped you in considering what to get for your bookworm friend/lover. If you have any other gift ideas, please feel free to comment below and share your thoughts.
I personally love the smell of books; but I doubt my list would have “perfume which smells like books” on the list. :))) I know you meant well, cookie, but… hahahaha!!!
See you at the party tomorrow dear!
Cookie! Hahaha. I forgot yours? Cupcake? Hihihi. Our threesome party was nice. LOL
My sister is a bookworm and I’m planning to gift her Bendable book lights, the chair is also looking super cool 🙂
Your sister is lucky to have you as her Santa then! Hahaha. the chair looks pretty, and I am thinking of manufacturing some myself hahaha kidding~
Please manufacture one for me 😀 lol
What about a book tokens to buy more books?
My parents are going to buy me a bookshelf (owed from my 21st birthday but I’ve nowhere to put it) when I finally move home. I’m much too excited about filling it and I haven’t even got it yet.
I don’t use little bending lights. There’s nothing that beats a proper cup of coffee and a book.
Hmm. Book tokens/credits sound good, too! You are lucky you have a new bookshelf. My babies are all cramped in one shelf hahaha.
A hot cup (I prefer tea) and a book sounds nice 😀
Those are such fabulous gift ideas! I recently got an e-reader for my birthday from my fiancé, though I certainly wouldn’t mind getting those bookends or that amazing couch. I once sent him a really fancy customized bookmark from this site: http://kyledesigns.com The end results turned out great. 🙂
I <3 my kindle. It's not the paper white one but when I need to read in the dark, I just read on my tablet since it also has a kindle application.
Great ending note with the book-scented scent! haha!
I am one of those people that find the actions outlined in #7 horrifying but I do love #8! I have a few journals already with little references to situations or quotes in books that I can refer back to. Plus, bookmarks are a fabulous idea! I’m always losing mine or putting them down and forgetting where they are when they aren’t in a book so they are always a great idea for me.
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This is a great list of Christmas gift ideas for the bookworm in your family.
I love the comfortable couch. A great use of space and I am always looking for more book storage. Thank you for sharing.
Great list! I want all of these things. Especially the new bookshelves. My Ikea ones are going to give way any minute!
I am all about that chair/book holder!
Great list!! Other bookworm ideas: bookplate stickers (“from the library of…”) and fingerless gloves to keep your hands warm when they stick out of the covers to hold your book up.
I like the idea of fun bookmarks, but only if they are also sturdy! I have one that I made my first year of teaching with my students as a holiday gift. It’s basically a strip of folded file folder covered in wrapping paper with a magnet on the ends so that when you put it between two pages, it sticks together and can’t fall out!
It’s my favorite bookmark and it has lasted 5 years!
One more item to add to the list…someone with a nice soft voice to read a book to you when your eyes are tired and you just want to sit and listen…now, is that so much to ask for??!!
Good idea on the bookends! I’m definitely going to get some (for myself) :p
Yes. I am not much of a fan of superheroes, but those two look funny pushing the books in between. Good luck finding an interesting pair!
Very good list.
This is a very good list, Monica. My favorites are the bookmarks, reading bag and reading lamp. The lamp is essential and something that often gets overlooked.
True. I have poor eyesight and having good amount of light helps taking care of my eyes. I like the bookmarks, too. I can’t imagine folding or making dog ears in my book!
Halfway through the first paragraph that’s on the Kindle, I realized that it was The Hunger Games. That’s how good I am.
Oho! You have a Kindle, too. I thought at first that others do not want to read ebooks, but I’m happy others try, too. Good luck reading the trilogy. It is good. May the odds be ever in your favor!
GREAT ideas! I actually have the antique globe bookends you pictured here. I love collecting interesting bookmarks, and the book bag is not only useful, but fun.
Really? How lucky you are! I wish I have a huge world map in my room, but Mom detested the idea so I would settle for globe bookends. Good thing you have them! I like book bags, but they don’t last for me. Too heavy things inside kill them. 🙂
Love the Moxy Fruvous idea! I haven’t heard someone mention their name in quite some time.
And thanks for turning me on to Demeter! I have never heard of them before and I don’t wear perfume but this company could change that.
Wow. You know them? Very few people know about this, I think. In fact, I won’t know about this good song without the help of my friend, Micah. She introduced me to this song and I love it!
I also don’t wear perfume most of the time, but perhaps a bookish scent will do 🙂
This post just made my wish-list for Christmas grow even larger. The bookmarks are so beautiful!
That’s a sad note, but true. How I wish Santa can give me all! Hahaha
Great ideas for gifts. Luv visiting here, always find good stuff.
Thanks, Bob. Now you have some gift ideas for your bookworm friends 🙂
I do love my notebooks. I’m always looking for new shapes and types. And pens, different kinds of pens. ^_^ Great list, although the perfume not so much for me, and definitely no highlighters for my books! I’m one of those people :). Funniest thing, I fought Kindle for a while, but, I ended up getting one. It makes reading so much easier. I’d add sticky notes, colorful sticky notes. 🙂 I love you lists, Gongjunim, great post!
Lovely as always 🙂 My notebooks are so East Asian inspired – lots of flowers and cute characters, panda, frogs, and rabbits! I love different kinds and colors of pens, too. Aha. So now you have a Kindle? Lucky you! I think I will want to get one in the near future. It seems a lot easier, indeed. Oh, Kindle, Kindle~~~
Book smell perfume?!?! I’d never heard of that before – how cool is that? 🙂 Last year, I tried making bookmarks myself as a gift, that’s certainly fun, especially if you go a little crazy and inventive. 🙂
Yes, I haven’t heard about that until a month ago. How cool, indeed! Aha! I didn’t know you have that creativity skills hidden. I would love to see some. 🙂
I’m intrigued by the perfume that smells like a book:) Very interesting post. thanx for stopping by and liking my blog:)
Me, too. Perhaps someone can try that and write a review after. Thank you for swinging by in my site, too.
What a wonderfully creative list, and as a fellow bookworm, I want them all! 🙂
Me, too! There’s nothing wrong with wishing for all of them, right? 🙂
Awesome!!… I loved the Bendable book lights the best… I had never heard of it before…
Oh, Naz. Try to purchase one in the department store. It will be beneficial especially to your night reading. 🙂
It definitely will!.. Infact I think that product is MADE FOR ME!!.. Hahaha.. Good one Nica!
I may be getting an ebook reader… ^^
Wow. You are lucky then! I am thinking of getting a Kindle myself, too. Hmmm
There’s book perfume? How awesome!! I love the chair as well.
Yes! I just saw this over the web and I was surprised as well. Haha. It seems the book chair is popular to you guys, I might try manufacturing some. Hahaha
Somebody give me a Kindle Paperwhite for Christmas! *ehem* Monica *ehem* 😀
Ahahahah. Wait, I must have one first! LOL. Dear Santa…
We still have two weeks left to wish! 😀
Where is my genie? Oops! I must buy a lamp first.
Hey Princess were are you. Haven’t been posting. I like your reviews. Something with coffee is my favorite. Anyhow , look forward to your future post and that cute smill of yours.
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Hi there, Chef. Thanks for dropping by. Got busy cooking, eh? I can tolerate coffee, but I am a tea person. 🙂 I will drop by in your page shortly.
Epic list. I think I’ll get myself the furniture that doubles as bookshelves. They look awesome.
I agree. Not only it is a space saver, but fun, too. It will be comfortable sitting surrounded by old friends – er, books.
One and the same. One and the same. 😉
Your suggestion of perfume which smells like books made me smile.
I’m glad it brought a smile to your lips. 🙂 I haven’t tried Demeter, but I can imagine how it smells. Perhaps someone can be mistakenly called a librarian. Haha!
I love the post-it not highlighter/pen combos! Post-it’s make the world a better, and slightly stickier, place.
Haha I agree. I like post-its; you can see a lot in my work area! 🙂
These are so cool! I especially love the perfume. 🙂
All of these suggestions are really amazing, though!
Thank you for appreciating it. I think you can order for the perfume online. I’m not sure if there are available stocks though. In this post alone, a lot seem to like to purchase Demeter. 🙂
Let me share it with my family and friends, they should gift me some of these. 🙂
Sure! I hope they get you those things that you want. Happy holidays!
These are great ideas!
I already have a book light but it has only one head. The one you pictured here looks much more convenient.
I had no idea book-scent perfume existed. Brilliant!
Thank you! Well, I hope Kimchi man will read your comment so he’ll know what to get you this Christmas. 🙂 Would you love to smell like a book?
Who wouldn’t? 🙂
I have read other’s thoughts and they passed for that perfume. But I love the smell of books!
I love your gift ideas. My friends usually give me gift cards to Barnes and Nobles. Now I can share your list with them as a hint, hint.
Thank you. Now, you can “suggest” these to your friends. You can even be more specific as to what color or kind you want 🙂 Happy holidays!
Love the idea of bendable book lights. Never come across them before. I presume they are battery powered. Any more comments on them? Do they work well? How long do the batteries last for? Any particular model you recommend?
Acrually, I haven’t tried one myself though a friend told me that yes, they are battery operated. As for how long it will last, I guess it depends on how long you read using it. I’m sorry I cannot recommend a model right now as I haven’t tried one.
Some lovely ideas there and they’d be just as good for a birthday present!
True! Wish my friends will present me with at least one hahah
What a nice varied list, I loved it especially the book lights that looked like they would work well, the music-hmm, the scent–who knew? My favorite recliner chair is next to a book shelf and has lighting on both sides, an adjacent table with a spot for a mug of mocha hot chocolate and a heavy duty lap robe to keep me comfortable while reading. And yes I’m horrified by #7, marking in books, no please don’t…
You are lucky to find such a comfortable sounding chair for reading! Hot chocolate seems good on cold days, but I’m afraid of getting my books stained. Oh, we share the horrror for #7.
Thanks for reading mine, and these are great ideas for all year long. Terrific work.
Thank you!
my problem with bookends is they take up space where books could be… but i have to say i might give in if i ever did find that batman one… so cool
I agree with you, so usually have the plain thin ones which don’t occupy much space. I admit those superheroes pushing against those books are interesting.
yeah my husband is a welder and he made some kind of gear thing that looks pretty cook but it turned out didn’t work right so i use that to separate some of my books, like the ones i’ve read from the ones i haven’t… it works pretty well…
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Fun ideas! As a bookworm myself, I agree!
yay! Which would you like best to receive?
Nice list! I especially like that chair, books all around! 🙂
Me, too! Makes me feel like my old friends (books and characters) with me.
What great ideas – I love them all!
I want all the stuff on this list!
Me, too! Now, let’s start sending “wish list” to our family and friends. *evil grin*
I wish I could find those batman/superman bookends. Those rock and I have a perfect friend for them.
I am not sure where one can purchase them, but hopefully you can find something in the web. Your friend is lucky to have a thoughtful person like you. 🙂
This just gave me soo many ideas to get my friends and family! 🙂