The problem with a card is that it takes ninety seconds and says almost nothing. This takes an afternoon and says everything. Sixty four hardcover pages of prompts, silly and sincere in roughly equal measure, waiting for the specific things only you know about him.

Of all the millions of fathers in the world, you might be the only one who blank. Fill that in honestly and you have made something he is going to keep in a drawer for twenty years. It is the rare gift that costs almost nothing to buy and is impossible to replace, and it works for Father's Day, a birthday, or a Tuesday.

Dad, I Made You a Book is the newer Compendium fill-in book for the same job, thirty two pages with a world's best trophy to name and a frame to draw in, and Mom, I Made You a Book is its companion.