Fablr

Gift guide

A Biography Gift for the Dad Who Has Everything

He doesn’t need another thing. Ask him about the summer job, the first car and the friend he still talks about.

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A father in his woodworking shop holds his Fablr hardcover as his grown son laughs beside him.

The gift is someone asking

Ask him what he wants for his birthday and he says he’s fine. Ask about the summer he worked the loading dock and you lose an hour. That second conversation is the gift.

A Fablr biography gives Dad a year of conversations with a biographer that asks good questions and remembers his answers, and gives the family a hardcover of his stories at the end.

Why it works for dads who don’t talk about themselves

  • The questions are concrete: the car, the boss, the house on Elm Street. Those are easy to answer, and the stories come with them.
  • He tells one story at a time, whenever he likes.
  • Next time, the biographer picks up where he left off.
  • If a detail comes out wrong, he says so, and the corrected version waits on the page for his OK.

What he does

He opens Fablr on a phone, tablet or computer, presses one button and talks. If you buy it as a gift, you can handle the setup. He opens a private link, with no account, no password and nothing to download.

What the family gets

A full-color, 8.5x11 hardcover of his stories, with a code on each recorded chapter that plays him telling it. People who come up in his stories can add what they remember.

Questions to start him off

  1. What was the first car you owned, and what happened to it?
  2. Who was your first boss, and what did they teach you?
  3. What did you and your friends do on a Saturday night at seventeen?
  4. What’s the best advice your father ever gave you?
  5. What were you thinking the day I was born?

More like these: questions to ask your dad about his first job.

At the kitchen table, a granddaughter scans the printed code on a chapter of an open Fablr hardcover with her phone camera.

If you would rather someone else asked

A biographer who asks the next question.

Fablr holds these conversations by voice, at whatever pace suits them. It follows up the way a good listener does and remembers what they said last time. The stories become a hardcover, with a code on each chapter that plays it in their own voice.

Conversation
15 hours over one year. No schedule.
The book
Full-color 8.5×11 hardcover, included. Free US shipping.
Price
$149, billed once. No renewal.
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Questions, answered.

Most dads say that. Start with something small and specific, like his first car or first job. The biographer asks the follow-up questions, and the bigger stories tend to arrive on their own.

No. He can use a web browser on a phone, tablet or computer, or the iPhone app if he prefers. If you set it up as a gift, he opens a private link and talks.

A journal asks him to write. Fablr asks him questions out loud and writes his stories down in his own words.

Yes. There’s nothing to ship until the book is ordered, so you can give it the same day. Write the first question in his card.

A full-color, 8.5x11 hardcover with his stories arranged as chapters of his life, and a code on each recorded chapter that plays his voice. It’s included in the $149.

Give them a year set aside for stories.

$149 billed once. No auto-renewal. 30-day money-back guarantee.

Give Their Story $149