The London Review Bookshop's Close Readings Plus: Among the Ancients: a subscription that includes "carefully chosen translations of Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Seneca," exclusive podcasts, and live seminars led by Emily Wilson. (At the tippy-top of my personal 2021 wishlist.)
An array of Postalco notebooks, specifically the A6 size with pingraph paper (the best).
Extremely smart shoes (the Martiniano high Neubau loafer).
A prism magnifier, for parsing small print.
Colorful pens, for notes in the margins.
Vintage ring engraved by Annina Vogel with the phrase: "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
An extremely elegant, be-fringed reading chair (or a replica of the chairs for curators and readers at the Bodleian Library).
A wooly jacket for woolgathering walks.
A complex perfume that smells like fall evenings.
An e-reader perfect for reading open-source digital documents that lets you read and mark-up PDFs (and 16 other file formats) with handwritten notes and that can convert written text to audio, so that you can rest your eyes and listen.
A sturdy bag for toting books home from the library.
A new idea (always welcome, even in postcard form).
