If I ever have kids, odds are that they’ll turn out to be gadget-obsessed bookworms. But even if they don’t, we’d probably spend a few afternoons flipping through these interactive iPhone-powered books together, giggling in delight at the stories.

Dubbed Phonebooks, these neat little books combine with your iPhone to create a fun experience at every page turn. And while I rail against using iPhone apps for parenting purposes, this is an extraordinarily cute and age-appropriate way for your lil’ one to play around with an iPhone. [Japan Trends via Dvice]

Floating Bookshelves: If your book lover is prone to piling books up in stacks everywhere, then maybe it’s time to get him an appealing storage solution. An invisible bookshelf is an old favourite and can slip in with most decor. Besides, who doesn’t like some spooky floating books? $US14 [Amazon — or make it yourself via Cut Out + Keep]

Photo of DIY version by Cut Out And Keep

Bookology Trivia Boardgame: Let’s face it, even the most modest of bookworms enjoy showing off now and then. A simple way to indulge them while spending time together is a good ol’ fashioned trivia board game. Bookology Trivia just happens to be perfect for that, but heads up: It’s way more fun with a larger group. $US11 [Amazon]

DON’T BUY Gift Certificates: There are those times when you’re hesitant to pick out an actual gift. What if he actually likes ancient history instead of sci-fi? What if she’s not ready for a book with that many pages? Whatever you do when those questions kick in, please don’t get your bookworm a gift certificate. While you may think that it says “Here. I remembered to get you a gift,” the message that comes across is, “I couldn’t be bothered, so take this fake limited-use money and buy your own crap.”

Technivorm Thermo Moccamaster: Coffee. Coffee. Coffee. Aside from being part of our morning routines, it’s also a part of a proper cuddle with a book. While there’s real science to making a good cup o’ joe, the Moccamaster delivers the best results for a drip coffeemaker, without the extra work of other methods. But it’ll cost ya. $US265 [Roast Masters]

Berkeley Lamp II: Yes, a lamp. Seriously. It’s tough to find a lamp that illuminates the room well without making your eyes feel like they’re gradually being pulled out of their sockets. The Berkeley Lamp II may be expensive, but it’s bright — with a ceiling-pointed “room light” and a downward facing “task light” — and energy conscious. Plus, it comes with a grounded 120V socket for plugging in your ebook reader at the end of a week of heavy page turning. $US289 [Berkeley Lamp; Review]

Nook, Kindle, Cool-er, Sony, Alex, Que. The ebook reader choices out there read like a biker chick’s list of ex-lovers, and it’s tough to pick the best. To us, it comes to a showdown between the newly reduced-price Kindle and the Nook, but we haven’t reviewed the Nook yet — nobody has — so it’s a tough call. If your love for Amazon knows no bounds, pick it, but if you are curious about what the Nook’s second screen can do (and at what cost), wait a few more weeks. $US259 for either one [Nook Preview; Amazon Kindle Page; Barnes & Noble Nook Page]

A Rare Book: You know exactly what your bookworm’s all-time most beloved book is and you know that he would love a special copy of it. So where on earth do you start looking for a first edition, advanced reader or autographed copy? If you’re hesitant to hit eBay or trudge through bookshop after bookshop then places like AbeBooks and Alibris should be your first stop. They offer a selection of rated rare booksellers and some incredibly customisable searches. I’ll make your search even easier if you want to get me one of my favourites: A lovely first edition of Fante’s Ask the Dust is available for a mere $US12,000. Not shopping for me? Ah well, maybe next year. $.01 to $US1 million

Photo by p0psicle

Don’t forget to recommend your own favourite gift ideas for bookworms in comments — include pricing if possible.

All Giz Wants is our annual round-up of favourite gift ideas, including amazing attainable objects and a few far-out fantasies. We’ll be popping guides catered to different interests several times per day for the next week, so keep checking back.

The book’s called Voyage To The Heart Of Matter – The Atlas Experiment At CERN and it’s written by Emma Sanders and crafted by Anton Radevsky. It’ll be out at the end of November and run for about $US33. I just want one because it’ll satisfy both the physics dork and the bookworm inside me all at once. [Atlas via Shiny Shiny via OhGizmo!]

Designer Christian Swinehart has parsed piles upon piles of Choose Your Own Adventure titles, and rendered them as a series of visualisations, from charts documenting how frequent “catastrophic” endings occur as opposed to “favourable” ones to animated representations of every single permutation of a given book to a full-on digital copy of Zork, which tracks your every move on a visual graph.

See your favourite childhood books exploded into animated data sets? Click here. [via MetaFilter]

It’s rare that technological advancements in bookbinding make their way to Giz, but you have to trust us on this one. The RevolveR, a $US21 reversible journal, will put a hurt on your brain. [RevolveR via boingboing via Making Light]

Creative is also talking with publishers, a la Apple, although in their case the talks are primarily in Singapore, where they already have a number of e-learning initiatives.

Images were unavailable, although Engadget did manage to snag a source who snapped a blurry pic of the Creative UI reveal (pictured) earlier today. There will be a touchscreen, which would make this slate/tablet markedly different than an ebook like the Kindle, although somewhat similar to the Nook. That’s all for now. [Epizenter via Engadget]

Seen here is a magnetised iPod bookmark. If you were a little guy or gal making the rounds in Bellevue, Washington Saturday evening, you got one of these in your candy sack.

Eat less candy? Read more? Indoctrinating America’s youth against the the Kindle? We can’t be sure what Apple’s true intent was here, but what we do know is the kiddies seemed to love it. The bookmarks were all gone by 7:30 p.m. [iPhone Savior - Thanks, Seth]

The sad truth is that you’ve never experienced Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra until you’ve had it read to you by the Kindle’s text-to-speech option. You’re welcome…

This isn’t another 1984 scenario (at least, not to my knowledge). Purchased books aren’t being remotely deleted from devices at the behest of evil publishers everywhere. But there seems to be something happening with publishers pulling out of the Kindle Store – or at least the Australian store.

The first book I purchased for the Kindle was Raymond Feist’s Krondor: The Betrayal. It’s the first book in a collection of three, all of which were available on the Kindle Store when I first received the device. Instead of buying all three at once though, I opted to pick up the first book, and use the “Save for Later” feature to mark the other two for future purchase.

The problem though, is that when I went back to buy those books after completing the first, they were no longer available. They still sit in my “Save for Later” basket, but searching for them, or the author, on the Kindle Store brings up no results. While the original book still sits on my device, I don’t have any access to purchasing its sequels on the Kindle.

But the situation is even bigger than just my single experience. Yesterday while searching for the books, ensuring it wasn’t my imagination playing tricks on me, I noticed that the Kindle Store boasted it had 285,000 odd books available to purchase. This morning, that number is sitting at 283, 292. Amazon rep Laura Porco said the other day that the number was around 288,000. So what’s going on? Why has the Store stopped selling almost 5000 books in the past week (or 2000 overnight)?

I’ve put the question to Amazon, but they have an Apple-like “no comment” response mechanism, so don’t expect too much in the way of details. Still, in the future it’s worth noting that you should probably buy all the books in a series from the outset to avoid any disappointment that might arise…

[Kindle on Giz]