How do I gift an ebook?

Kindle lets you buy most titles as a gift to an email address, and it arrives in minutes. Apple Books does not gift single titles, so for an Apple reader send an Apple Gift Card — the balance buys the book directly. It is the reader's own app that matters — ask which they use.

Is an ebook a good gift, or should I buy the paper book?

Ask how they read. Someone who reads on a phone or a Kindle will be genuinely pleased with a title that arrives at once; someone with shelves wants the object. If you do not know, the paper edition of a book on their list is the safe answer.

What do you buy a reader who has read everything?

The thing they read with: a good reading light, a bookmark that is nicer than a receipt, a subscription. Or — the honest answer — the next three books on their own list.

Gifts for book lovers

Buying a book for a reader is the highest-risk gift there is: they have read it, they have it, or they have decided not to. The reader is the one person whose list you genuinely need.

This page is the books people are reading right now, as ebooks that land on their phone or reader the second you send them — which also makes it the last-minute gift that does not look like one — plus a few bookish things that are not books.

Ask for a list anyway. A reader's to-read pile is already written down somewhere; you are just asking to see it.

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Make the list, stop getting guessed at

Save anything from any store to a free wishlist, share the link, and let people buy you things you actually want. Reserved items stay hidden from you, so the surprise survives.

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