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Foxfire Books (This series is why I keep calling my browser Foxfire instead of Firefox, too many foxes!)
Encyclopedia of Country Living
Canning guides
Dehydrating guides
Boy Scout Manual
Kartographers Survival Manual
A row of reloading guides
A row of how-to manuals
A hard drive full of stuff that I'm now printing and putting into binders.
"If Howdy Doody runs against him, I'm voting for the puppet." - SkyOwl's Wife, 2012
My wife is a nurse so tons of medical manuals and trainging books.
old car repair books and manuals.
old farm tractor repair manuals.
manuals on building old hand tools and man power equipment.
5 years of mother earth news and backwoods home mags.
a ton of do it your self home building and repair books.
Books on solar, wind and hydro power.
2 years of hobby farms mags.
Big blue book of canning.
USDA booking of canning and food prep.
Reloading manuals ( not set up to reload yet )
sausage making cook book.
Meat curing cook book. ( covers smoking, drying, salting and jerky and sausage making.
I think every blacksmithg book out there.
Edible plants of New England.
Tons of gardening books.
Lots of live stock raising books.
Just too many more to list
You guys should take some time and brouse some of the sites I posted in the "downloadable" thread....lot of good stuff in there.....I'll try to post my master list later....it's on my work machine......lots of extreemly valuable PDFs on there.
Live like you'll die tomorrow, learn like you'll live forever.
My library.
Gardening
Herbal and natural healing
EMT and medical reference
Gunsmith manuals
Canning guides
Lot of back to basics type books.
Plant identification books
Assorted survival manuals.
Navigation guides
DIY books from crafts to welding
The Bible.
Bible, various CDs on various subjects, Info from this and other sites to improve my situation when SHTF, Books and about anything else that I can get my hands on.
- Encyclopedia of Country Living (extremely comprehensive, get it - 9th edition or later)
- Modern Carpentry Manuals (Digest/Home Depot/Black&Decker/etc.)
- Modern Plumbing Manuals (ditto)
- Building w/Stone (a handful)
- Sewing Manuals (how to books)
- Quilting Manuals (how to books)
- Sewing Pattern Books (many and cheap)
- Square Foot Gardening (older version - still completely useful)
- Indian Skills (old book, good info)
- Boyscout Manual (mine from way-back-when, but currently missing)
- Root Cellar-ing basics (pamphlet)
- Smoke Housing basics (pamphlet)
- Dehydrating basics (pamphlet)
- Canning/Freezing/Dehydrating Books (a few)
- Homesteading/Gardening Video (excellent overview, butchering, gardening, water, rabbits, chickens, cows, land, etc.)
- Butchering Venison Video (shooter but no hunter here - excellent info)
- How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It (audio book - excellent info)
- One Second After (audio and print - excellent either way)
- Patriots (good book, but it's certainly stretching the "what if" aspects of SHTF - IMO)
- Various PDFs out the WAZOO (like Skyowl's Wife, I'm printing/bindering them as time permits). Electricity is a wild card.
Check your library's annual or semi-annual remainder sales. Ours... $0.75 paper backs (any size) and $2 hard backs. $40 total netted me a HEAVY box of older but completely useful books.
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