For this week's book review, how about a little fun? Most readers know I love books, and therefore I'm also a sucker for books about book collecting. Over the years I've purchased a number of coffee table-sized books with beautiful photos depicting book collections. Some of these books are great, some are not so great.
This one is my favorites: "At Home with Books," by Estelle Ellis and Caroline Seebohm.
If you drool over the home libraries of serious book collectors, this is the volume for you.
Don's recommendation this week is a power stapler. He had a project that required him to crawl under the house to install additional electrical wiring. The wires, of course, had to be secured to the underside of the house, but it was impossible to swing a hammer under those conditions. As a result, he was dreading the task.
As he put it, "If you've ever had to crawl on your back under the house or in another cramped space, stapling up electrical wiring while trying to swing a hammer with just inches of clearance, you'll understand the value of this tool." Add to this mix that, as a 67-year-old man, his interest in such physical gymnastics is just about zero.
So he purchased this tool, and wow ... just wow. It worked beautifully.
These are the crown staples the tool uses.
This stapler is a game-changer when it comes to working in tight conditions. Of course, a cramped space is only one of its many applications, but that was the original reason behind its purchase. The tool came highly rated, and Don can confirm it lives up to its promises. 10/10 would recommend.
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Happy stapling!
Call me old, but I really love the "Ansel Adams in the National Parks" Coffee Table Book.
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BTW, looked at your link to I"love Books"
OMGosh you truly are a Bookaholic aren't you HAHAHA
Ansel Adams photography never grows old to me.
DeleteI absolutely see the value of that staple gun- my poor husband has had to do some projects in weird places with no clearance. But you know- all the time in old(er) houses when we come across odd workmanship or a funny repair, it's not necessarily that they didn't know what they were doing- they didn't have the right tool and made do. Or the right tool hadn't been invented yet.
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