We wont waste time trying to justify why you should buy books; if youre in the books-are-dead crowd, youre probably not reading this. But if you agree that books still matter, you already know that they are the perfect present they can help pass an hour or change the direction of a life. What other gift has so much power? Not socks, thats for damn sure.
And hey, were no purists; fit each book to its use. Youll want to experience The Wes Anderson Collection in all its weighty coffee-table beauty, whereas some of our more prosaic cookbook picks may be most useful in the kitchen as a Kindle edition. Just remember, its tough to fetchingly wrap a wireless transmission. Jessica Bryce Young