THIS IS NOT A REVIEW, FOLKS This, is a post full of stuff you can waste your hard earned money on. I love reading, I love books, I love everything that goes along with the world of print, including the awesome culture that springs up among bibliophiles, casual readers and people with a soft spot for pointless, although rad, bookish themed accessories. Spending a lot of time on the internet and having a full time job means I have just enough time and resources to spend money on things I probably don't need but I do like to show my interests in relatively subtle ways... I prefer to support small businesses where possible which means I shop on Etsy a lot, but I will include other sites in my list because there's a huge market for nerdy things if you've access to the internet and a bank account.
Bookish Pins It's quite likely that I have a problem with buying enamel pins, and while not all of the ones I have are related to books, I'm always on the look out. In researching for this post, I bought two. Crap. I mentioned Fable and Black earlier, their pins are on point, but there's literally a hundred different sellers I could recommend... The one's I've chosen to post today are very generic book related ones, but pick a fandom and run a search - you'll find so much is available! Here's a few favorites you can click on to take you straight to the page. I'm enabling you. Sorry, not sorry. Book Sleeves This is a whole new world, friends. Instead of leather bound books, we throw our paperbacks into our bags or the passenger seat of our cars, leaving them places we shouldn't and generally beating them up. There's something very satisfying about finding a well loved book, a little smudged, a broken spine, well thumbed edges... But now, now you can buy padded little jumpers for your books. There's a few different sellers nowadays, and I've pulled together a few good ones for your perusal.
Bookish Threads & Jewellery There are so many places you could get literary themed clothing. All over eBay, Etsy, little boutique stores, tiny Facebook ads (or is that just me?). Modcloth is a good one, they have all sorts of clothing, shoes and accessories for the bookish inclined. You can get any book entirely printed onto a scarf or t-shirt, and book prints and librarian styles are all the rage. There's a few great places dedicated only to literary gifts The Literary Gift Company - clothes, socks, mugs & candles https://www.theliterarygiftcompany.com/ Bookish Gifts - https://bookishgifts.com Litographs - customisable shirts and scarves - https://www.litographs.com/ Book Lover Gifts - clothing, accessories, home wares, posters - https://booklovergifts.com/ Random Acts Of Poetry - quotable notebooks at her Etsy Shop Literary Art Prints - Customisable jewellery, scarves and tote bags - check out her Etsy Homewares If you're still looking to spread some more lit love throughout your home, there's a million different things you can put in every room of your house but the kitchen is one of my favorites. I have a few magnetic word kits so I can make fridge poetry while I'm waiting for various things to boil or bake, and even when friends come round for tea they have a crack at making something up on the fly. Literary Gift Co. actually have Scrabble tea towels as well, which I tend to think would make me want to play rather than cook, but they're a very cute kitchen addition. I think that you may have enough cool stuff to be getting on with. It's simple enough to type some requests into the search bars of Google, eBay or Etsy and find some truly awesome stuff, and if the prices are something you don't love then you can either shop around, or just save up so you can surround your home space with literary themed joy. Let me know if you've found anything you really like with a bookish theme that you'd recommend to someone - bonus points for small businesses!
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