#handybooks

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Ad for Audels Machinists & Toolmakers Handy Book by Frank D. Graham, on back cover of Blue Ribbon Comics #21 (MLJ, 1942) featured by Heritage Auctions in 2023.

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Bat Houses

Plans for Bat houses! Want to help out our flying little friends by building them a home. Here are some wildlife approved plans that are suitable to hosting roosting bats.

Four Chambered Nursery Bat House

Rocket Box Bat House

Looking to really dig into bat house then these are two great resources on bats houses in Canada and the US.

Bat House Builders Handybook

Best Management Practices for the Use of Bat Houses in the US and Canada

Quick tips on choosing a ready made bat house

First off it needs to be the right size. The minimum size a bat house needs to be to keep the temperatures inside stable enough for bats to live in it is 24" x 16" (60cm x 40cm). Smaller than that and it won't retain enough thermal mass to stay stable. Leading to bats getting too cold or too hot to use it long term. This is especially important if you live in a hot climate as bat houses that get too hot in summer can seriously harm baby bats!

Next is avoid any house that has mesh of any kind inside the bat house to provide grip or a rough surface for bats to cling too. The mess is an entanglement risk and as it degrades it becomes more dangerous over time. If you have a house with mesh or that is all that is available to you remove the mesh from the house.

All About Bat Houses

[rainbowmilk1996]

6 and 8 for the book asks!

The books I've read in the last month...

Molly's Collection (the American Girl books)

Anne of Avonlea

The Rover Boy's at School

The American Girl's Handybook

Little Men

And the first book I remember reading was probably a PowerPuff Girls Golden book.

[uicb]

As the show was just deinstalled from its display in UIowa Special Collections, we wanted to offer our congratulations to Leslie Smith for receiving the Handy Books exhibit purchase prize for her book "Inner Rooms." Also recognized with honorable mentions by our jurors were Maggie Heineman, Colleen Lawrence, and Lisa Miles. In her work "Inner Rooms," Smith combines the contemplative and the surprising, wherein the serenity of the individual mind at work—its grasp of and grasping after memory and place—opens itself to unexpected directions. "Gamete•Zygote•Embryo•Fetus•Neonate:" Synthesizing disparate sources and using the book format to imagine anew ideas about fetal existence, Heineman animates the entire piece with intelligent whimsy. In "Toward a Natural History of the Corallines," Colleen Lawrence worries the history and devolution of coral by overturning the book aesthetic of eighteenth-century print, employing white ink and hand lettering against translucent handmade paper mixing gray and indigo coloring. In “An Exploration of Friends; Taking into Consideration that I Love My Friends & I Don’t Eat My Friends; A Brief Internal Inquiry of the Pig: A Sentient Animal Which Possesses Mental Capabilities on Par With a Three-Year-Old Human Child,” Miles produces a homespun keepsake that is by turns edgy, sentimental, and funny, petitioning its audience through a witty use of crafty books that never loses it sharp critique. #bookarts #exhibition #awards #bookbinding #artistbooks #handbound #art #show #craft #uiowa #uicb #uispecialcollections #handybooks #cognition

[springtidepress]

B'bye Bannon! Another spread from "Trump and Judy" now at @uictrbook #handybooks #movablebooks #artistbooks #resist #notmypresident

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[stickerstack]

Seeso's trademark style resounds in these pocket sized beauties

The Blank Notebook from Seeso Graphics is a distillation of everything that makes the Seoul-based brand one of the most exciting around. Striking and bold designs, quality materials, and a keen eye for the little things all add up to make these a must-have stationery gem. Lightweight and slimline, these are the ultimate in portable paper perfection. And in a choice of eight styles, you'll feel truly spoilt!

[in-pleasant-company]

Hi! During our shut in I want my Samantha to be as comfortable as possible. What kinds of books would she like, other than Oz and Sherlock Holmes. I also have Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Anne of Green Gables. Is there anything I’m missing? What kind of music would she listen to? I tried searching the music tag but couldn’t find anything. Thanks in advance!

This is such a nice idea! Here’s picture of my Samantha and Nellie’s bookshelf.

They have Treasure Island, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Secret Garden, The American Girls Handybook, Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, a book of Celtic fairy tales and the Wizard of Oz. I made all these books using foam core and book covers from Google Books. If you want you can print out the inside pages because these books are public domain!

Samantha reads An American Boys Handybook (perhaps it belonged to Uncle Gard?) and Heidi is mentioned in one of the mysteries. (Except I wouldn’t call it cheerful. Wtf American Girl!?)

She could have read books by E. Nesbit like Five Children and It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and books by Jane Austen.

Check Amazon and ebay for Running Press Miniature editions. I have a miniature copy of Romeo and Juliet from R.C. Brady.

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @diegoferminillustration Diego Fermin (Spain/France).  Section of the cover for the forthcoming book, The Handybook of Revelation, indicative of covid19 anxiety.  

[russianbluewitch]

19th century Troom Troom

(Word added at bottom of page by me because I didn’t want to photograph the next page. If I keep this up I’m never finishing the American Girls Handybook…)

[bastard-woodsman]

Some interesting means of cooking in camp. Image from page 78 of “The American Boys’ Handybook of Camp-lore and Woodcraft”, by Daniel Beard (1920)

[nemfrog]

Items of personal comfort for backpackers. The American boys' handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft. 1920. 

[uicb]

This Thursday, August 31st, join us in the Main Library for talks on "Distributed Cognition in Ancient Science" (2:00 pm), and on "Art, Science, and the Mind in the Movable Book" (3:30 pm)—with the Handy Book exhibition reception to follow that evening at the Center for the Book (for more details, follow link under our profile) #handybooks #symposium #uiowa #uicb

[springtidepress]

Last spread of "Trump and Judy" for #handybooks exhibition at @uictrbook this fall. #movablebooks #movabletype #artistbooks #notmypresident #judypunchesback #nastywoman

[diegofermin]

RETROCALYPSE NOW. The Handybook of Revelation. (V) "I SAW A LAW, HE HAD SEVEN EYES AND SEVEN HORNS" https://www.flickr.com/photos/diegofermin/albums/72157675363132377 https://tictail.com/pinkiepress #diegofermin #retrocalypse #apocalypse #revelation #future #retrofuture #war #nuke #lamb #antichrist #beast #abomb #illustration #pinkiepress https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu6R6F5Bsmb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bozwdixg45rh

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