Books for when the SHTF

by grizzlydueck » February 18th, 2013, 11:32 am

Hey preppers here's some of my top picks. Lets here some of yours! thanks

Books for if the shit hits the fan or just for the excellent info! My tops pics are on the top shelf out of catagory,it took a couple of hours to pick the most useful ones. If i have to G.O.O.D and have the time and room i'll dump another shelf into the rubbermaid. lol

I have been collecting homesteading /survival books for 25 years and have narrowed it down to my 8 top grab books:

- THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COUNTRY LIVING BY CARLA EMERY 838 pages of everything homesteading
-The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer
-Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt To Plate (The Wild Food Adventure Series, Book 1) by John Kallas
-Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rocky Mountains and Neighbouring Territories by terry willard
-Where there is no dentist by murray dickson
-Where there is no doctor by david werner
-Patriots A novel of survival in the coming collapse [great reference]
-When all hell breaks loose by cody bare feet lundin [great reference]
The where there are no dentist /doctor books are developed for 3rd world countries were you have to be self sufficient -
how to preform the skills needed in plain english with ordinary tools-to preventative care. Worth their weight in gold!

Some other interesting reads :

-one second after by william forstchen i would rate this book a 10/10
-living ready magazine is top drawer 10/10
-an older magazine that i collected for years was countryside magazine 10/10
-Guerrilla warefare by ernesto guevara
-Ragnar's Ten Best Traps: And A Few Others That... by Ragnar Benson
-the trappers bible by dale martin
-the SAS survival handbook by john wiseman
-a fun read = the worst case scenario survival handbook by josh pivven. Tons of awesome info: from how to escape from the trunk of a car,
to how to control a runaway camel!

I just ordered, Holding Their Own: A Story of Survival... has anyone read this one? Should off maybe ordered part 2 at the same time!

Just finished reading "One Second After", must say, an easy read and very thought provoking and scary...the fact that something like that could happen and how ill prepared and little info we would have is definately eye opening.
Just began "World made by Hand" and have the second part to read following...I have read it already but want to refresh before I read the second part...pretty good book from what I recall last time.

Cheers
OffThePath

Has anyone touched on how they would take their library with them if SHTF? I've been loading up my Kobo with as much as I can; it can store a tremendous amount of info in a lot of different formats including .pdf. If your internet/torrent search-fu is up to it, almost anything can be found and stored. Just be sure to use Caliber instead of the Kobo software.

NorthernCX,

I have many of my references in PDF and I keep them on one of two USB thumbdrives. 12 Gb of the 16Gb available. I add to these when I find new stuff. I am aware that in an EMP environment the tools to read these devices may not exist anymore or the data on the USB's may get destroyed but for the rest of known threats this data is safe, as long as I can find power.

I like PDF, too bad my MP3 player does not read this format. 🙁

I hear printing on gold leaf pages keeps forever. It is rumoured there may be 3 such libraries located on planet Earth. Not sure if that is true. But obviously, preserving knowledge has challenged mankind from the dawn of time through the rise and fall of all empires great and small.

Mountainman.

PS - Some very good posts happening here. Great.

I am not going back page by page but has anyone done up a list of what has been posted so far?

It would be great if we could have a google document page so that people can add to the list. If it was in an excel style form; you could quickly search to see if it has already been posted. The risk with these sites is that if it is open to the public for editing; some jerk could theoretically erase it. That could be minimized by someone saving it every Monday of course and then keeping that back-up.

If there's interest I'll look into this, unless there's a rule against posting forum content in such a public space? Maybe Denob already has a similar tool that I'm unaware of?

I will do up a list.

I was wondering if Mountainman could just add the list to his original post until another solution can be found

Howdy,

If I understand correctly we need to make a master list of all books suggested on this thread?? It will take sometime. BUt I will see what I can do. I am not one of them techie's this will be blackboard and chaulk technology.

I like the idea of a master list that can be searched and added to. Maybe a column or two for thumbs up and thumbs down voting by members.

Cheers,

Mountainman.

Would it be ok if I did up the list and then someone else check my work? I need to practice/spend time on the computer to help me get ready for going back to work. It would give me something "productive" to do.

I wonder if some of these books come on Micro fiche. As grouchyprepper said today, books are good but how many can you carry. with a micro fiche portable reader, 100 books can fit the size of one thin pocket book.

I wonder if some of these books come on Micro fiche. As grouchyprepper said today, books are good but how many can you carry. with a micro fiche portable reader, 100 books can fit the size of one thin pocket book.

Just my 2 cents on this

I have worked for years in finance where the main method for storing documents was putting them onto micofiche. Basically its a camera type thing that takes pictures of the page that you want, the film is a strip that has to be put into a "4 x 6 card of plastic" The film is processed in a chemical bath. Its all done in contained equipment. There are several companies out there that still rent out the equipment to do microfiche storage. I have no idea of the cost. You could in theory put all of your documents on microfiche yourself.

Here are a few issues with microfiche; it can rip, I think only about....dern I am trying to count the old sheets in my head....I think it was 5 rows with 10 pages per row...so 50 sheets per page - that makes a lot of microfiche cards for one book.

Those are the only issues I can think of which is far few issues then having a hard copy of a book

oldschool,

Go ahead and get some computer time. I will try to review the list once made, if you like.

Mountainman.

The ones we had in the military was 14 across and 7 down, the fiche cards are what you were using. the amount that the documents were reduced by was 95%. I could have my whole library in a shoe box. But the chances of that happening is 0 to none.:mrgreen:

oldschool,

Go ahead and get some computer time. I will try to review the list once made, if you like.

Mountainman.

Thank you. I will email the spreadsheet to you when done. It will take me a few days.

The ones we had in the military was 14 across and 7 down, the fiche cards are what you were using. the amount that the documents were reduced by was 95%. I could have my whole library in a shoe box. But the chances of that happening is 0 to none.:mrgreen:

no buddies still in the military to help you out 😉