As to reading, I think all of the above suggestions will supply the beekeeper with good, usable knowledge. I don't any of us can know too much about bees, but i do think that many of us tinker with our bees too much. The first year or two that I kept bees, I made up excuses to myself to "inspect" the bees. My bees survived the learning curve, but they did not produce any honey to harvest. Now, I stay out of there lives as much as i think prudent and have good honey harvests. So, read the abc/xyz book and the others and even the Michael Bush book. Many of this forum think very little of Michael Bush, but he is a top notch bee biologist.
A sidebar on sticky notes: It is my fervent hope that I don't kill someone over sticky pad notes. When I first started supervising drilling operations in the 80's, it was a common practice to record every detail on a sticky note and stick it on the wall of the job shack. When someone off the drilling site called and wanted information we walked around the office searching for the correct sticky pad note. There were times that three grown men were practically searching for "the" note. It drove me crazy. I discovered that everyone simply put info on a sticky pad, stuck it one the wall, and WALA, IT WAS FILED. TASK FINISHED.
I put a spiral notebook on the desk and told everyone to carefully note each phone call and info request into the book and each day we would tab the book to the day on the daily report, i.e., day one, day two, day three............ That way we could go back to the day or close to the day and find the information. I'm sure there are people that make good use out of sticky notes, but to date, everyone that I know that uses sticky notes uses them to falsely complete a task. I don't allow them in my office. Rant over.
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