Shown here is our eBookmark at a more advanced stage. The basic idea of operation is that a user will mark their place in a book with a touch strip and it will be stored and displayed via the embedded LEDs. A toggle switch at the top of the device selects the left or right page of the book. The indicator sleeps after 5 seconds and wakes up to display the last saved bookmark upon the next touch of the strip or toggle switch.
All of the electronics including microcontroller, white surface mount LEDs, resistive touch strip sensor, tact switch and lots of teeny tiny wires are embedded in a carved 7” x 1” x 1/8” basswood body. The front panel is a temporary proof of concept. The microcontroller code was written in pure C and compiled with avr-gcc. Getting all of these small parts wired into such a small and delicate wooden frame was no easy task. The most trying moment was when I realized I had initially installed all 16 LEDs backwards :| However, it’s already looking pretty rad at this point and I can’t wait to finish and show the final piece!
Shipping pretty pony bookmarks all across North America! Pick up your pony crew, available individually, as a set, trio and pack of four, you’ll want to collect them all.
Full confession, Christmas is my absolute favourite holiday! I don’t even mind an early sprinkling of snow to make everything more festive. Emphasis on the “sprinkling” part. What’s your favourite holiday? ☃️ - - - Sent out this trio of pretty ponies to Texas today! Want your own pony bookmarks? Tap the link in my bio to shop!
Christmas decor out in stores✔️Cheesy Christmas movies playing ✔️Snow covered everything ✔️ Hang onto your candy canes, Christmas is coming full steam ahead!
Shipping Saturday! Another order of pretty ponies is heading out to Minnesota for an excited customer. This sweet trio also just received another 5-Star review on Etsy. Love my happy clients!
One interesting piece from this collection of orphaned ephemera is a troop billet card for the U.S.S. Leviathan, a massive German-built steamship seized by the United States in 1917 and used as a troop transport during World War I. While we can’t quite make out the name penciled on the back of the card, we can (just barely) read the annotation below, which allows us to date this particular voyage:
Left New York Harbor June 15th 1918
Can anyone read the name of the soldier in bunk #895? While we can’t say for sure if the former owner of this card made it home from the War, the fact that the card survived gives us some hope.
During its tenure as a military transport, the Leviathan ferried over 119,000 American troops between the United States and Europe. After the War ended, the ship was refitted again to serve as a passenger liner for the United States Lines, and continued to sail across the Atlantic for another 20 years.
There’s a lot more to studying provenance than deciphering arcane inscriptions and other marks of ownership. Sometimes previous owners will leave other traces of themselves behind, like these loose items we’ve found stuck between the pages of many of our old books.
These pieces of ephemera, or transitory materials originally meant to be discarded after a few uses, have survived against all odds — in some cases for over 100 years — as forgotten bookmarks, safely tucked away and waiting for our librarians or catalogers to stumble across them.
Unfortunately, these particular ephemera are orphaned materials, their original sources unknown or undocumented. Where they might have come from, what books they were originally found in — these remain mysteries that we will probably never solve. But while their usefulness as pieces of provenance evidence is likely nonexistent, these fragile, rarely-preserved fragments of another time and place are still interesting in their own right.
#ampersandmay17 day-19 ‘note’ I’m really enjoying the prompts for this #mayphotochallenge they are pushing me to create better content! #rfabmay17 day-19 'recent purchase’ I’ve been trying to find The Raven Boys for a while in used book stores and so far was only able to find book 2 and 3 so I broke down yesterday and bought this copy from chapters! I can’t wait to start this series I have heard only the best things about it!
Qotd: What company do you recommend for bookmarks?
Just wanted to share with you guys these adorable bookmarks i found at Barnes and Noble! I love them! They’re even scented! ….. { #bookmarks #bookstagram #reader #bibliophile #goodbooks #pages #bookblogger #bookphotography #bookporn #books #bookworm #booklion }
Don’t be a dick in bookmarks, folks. And yes while I made this image, I’m giving free reign. Take it. Spread it far and wide. Because I’m hearing that some readers don’t know that their bookmarks are visible.
Printable bookmarks! Bookmarks with feathers and phrases from the book we all love! Available if you subscribe to my $1 Patreon(and you’ll find lots more yummy goodies too!)
The time has finally come to share my new Kindred Whispers Armory! This was a project that started with an idea and quickly branched to something more. I built this room for creating a display for some of my work and to try something new. It took a while for everything to come together, but I’m very happy with how it turned out. This adventure helped me explore more of my creativity. I will be shifting, and adding more to my Armory as new pieces are released. Also I have ideas for more rooms to accommodate my work. The wall to the right will feature something special soon. I will also create more blog posts for the accent pieces I added to this project. What do you guys think!?
