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Books can make fantastic holiday gifts (obviously!) but knowing how to buy the right book for someone in your life can be harder than it looks. Today we’re tackling the challenge of buying books for others and sharing our best tips. And we also have a Santa-worthy list of our favorite bookish gifts. Oh, and you’re totally allowed to buy all of these things for yourself if you have no bookish person to buy for in your life. We won’t tell. ;)
Highlights:Gift-giving is a love language and one of us doesn’t know how to speak it fluently
How to know if Roni loves you and what she hasn’t done with her husband in fifteen years
Dad books
The key to the “also boughts” on Amazon
When that person in your life only reads one author or one series exclusively
Dawn is a fail at hiding gifts
Making a book gift feel extra personal
Roni can’t seem to conjugate a verb
Buying for the non-readers in your life
A good ebook reader’s power to reignite a reading life
A drool-worthy list of bookish gifts (no, we weren’t putting stuff in our carts for ourselves as we recorded, hush.)
What gift makes Roni feel like she has a little taste of the library in her office
Dawn gets attacked by a fly
Out of town library cards
Don’t put your address in a used book or Dawn will stalk you
The joy of bookmail and our favorite bookish subscriptions
We have feelings about the Amazon First Reads
Go for the gold type gifts
Making it easier for your family and friends to buy the right gift for you
Our RAD Reading Recs of the week
Stay tuned for bloopers at the end
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