Give every reader on your list the right book. Most Christmas planners hand you a blank gift list and wish you luck. This one starts with the reader — match each person to one of ten reader types, set a budget that holds, track every gift through buying, making and wrapping, and write the note that makes the gift.
Match each person on your list to one of ten reader types — the Comfort Reader, the Deep Diver, the Speed Reader, the Reluctant Reader, the Young Reader, the Collector, the Book-Club Reader, the Practical Reader, the Nostalgia Reader and the Curious Wanderer — and each type brings four gift ideas chosen for how that person actually reads. Then set a budget that holds, write the gift list, and track every gift through buying, making and wrapping, so nothing is bought twice and nothing is left unwrapped on Christmas Eve.
And then the part other planners skip: the note. A book without a note is a guess; a book with a note is a gift. The planner gives you a three-sentence formula that works for every reader type, ten inscriptions you can adapt to write inside the book itself, and drafting pages to get the words right before the ink goes in.
Printable PDF in US Letter (A4 via “Fit to page”) — the full 21-page planner, delivered as an instant download after purchase through Gumroad. Print at home or at a copy shop; the gift-list and tracker pages are made to be reprinted under the Personal Use licence — a long list gets a second page, no questions asked.
This is the same 21-page planner already available on our Gumroad store at the same price — one product, one price, whichever shop you buy it from. It is not a different edition, and it is not priced differently.
Anyone with readers on their Christmas list — and no idea what to give half of them. If your list is one person and you already know the book, honestly, you do not need a planner; buy the book and write the note. If your list is five people or more, with a Reluctant Reader and a Collector on it, this is the ten minutes before a single purchase that stops the wrong book in the wrong ribbon.
Three real pages form a genuinely usable starter system: How to Use This Planner (planner p.2 — the whole system on one page), the signature Reader-Type Gift Finder (1 of 2) (p.3 — the first five reader types with all 20 of their gift ideas, enough to match five people from the sample alone), and Stocking Fillers (1 of 2) (p.15 — eight immediately usable filler ideas plus the “would they want it on an ordinary day?” test). Method + the matcher + usable ideas is enough to start planning honestly, for free.
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$7 launch price
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The Advent Countdown is a nightly read-aloud ritual — one card a night from 1 to 24 December, with an activity and a question to talk about. This planner is gift planning — matching each person to a reader type, setting a budget, tracking buying, making and wrapping, and writing the note. Different jobs; they work well together, and neither one replaces the other.
It is built for December gifting, and the calendar runs 1–31 December. But the matcher, the budget pages, the note formula and the inscription ideas work for birthdays and any other giving all year round — the reader types do not change with the season.
A 21-page printable PDF (US Letter; A4 via “Fit to page”), Personal Use licence — print and copy the pages for yourself and your family as often as you need. The gift-list and tracker pages are made to be reprinted when one copy is not enough.
It works best if you do — choices are widest and delivery is still ordinary in November. But the planner still works if you start in December: the calendar gives one task a day from 1 December, and the matcher and budget pages take ten minutes before a single purchase.
This planner covers gift planning — choosing, budgeting, tracking, wrapping and writing the note. If you want the nightly December ritual instead, see The Bookish Advent Countdown: Family Read-Aloud Edition, our 24-day read-aloud kit. The two do different jobs and work well together.
One of the planner's reader types will be a Nostalgia Reader — and the edition built for exactly that reader is A Christmas Carol — A Read & Reflect Edition: Dickens's complete 1843 novella with a companion after every stave and a four-session December reading-circle guide. The planner finds the reader; the Carol is the book for one of them.
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