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Originally Posted by rcentros
It's more personalized if it's a specific book. Maybe a book the gift-giver really liked.
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That sentiment sounds good, but is unlikely to be true. We all have this romantic notion that some grandmotherly figure is going to find that Anne of Green Gables gift card and put it in a Hallmark card where she's going to write a message about how important that book was to her as a girl.
But that hasn't been what happens in my life. What you usually get is someone who isn't a reader, but has to buy a gift for you. They don't know much about you, but they know you are a reader and since you're a nerd you must like Star Wars, so you wind up with How Star Wars Conquered The Universe. A book you have no interest in.
At least if it were a gift card, I could have got a book I wanted.
Even if there's some book that moved you enough that you want to give it as a gift, unless it was a big recent best seller, what are the chances that Walmart is going to have the card for that specific book in stock? So you loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Is Walmart likely to have a card specific to that book in stock? No. They are going to have a hundred of the latest James Patterson spin off and then they will have the generic cards which are really all that is needed.