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I hope you're all preserving as many good books as you can | |
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Butch DeFeo
 User ID: 53505556 United States07/01/2020 11:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You'd best practice reading your books by the campfire. Soon there will be no electricity to illuminate your reading lamps. :DOCSRBAFFLED::redblueLED::DONTBEAPANDEMICS: Only you can stop the fake pandemic for yourself, no one will ever tell you the pandemic is over. It's time to WIN. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 79097104 United States07/01/2020 11:36 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Get yourself a copy of Carla Emery - Encyclopedia Of Country Living. Quoting: Mental Case Most useful book I own!!! You don't read it like a book...you look something up when you need the information. How to skin a rabbit? It's in there. How to deliver a baby? It's in there. The best way to grow corn? It's in there. Thank you.  |
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| Mental Case
User ID: 79096977 United States07/01/2020 11:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Get yourself a copy of Carla Emery - Encyclopedia Of Country Living. Quoting: Mental Case Most useful book I own!!! You don't read it like a book...you look something up when you need the information. How to skin a rabbit? It's in there. How to deliver a baby? It's in there. The best way to grow corn? It's in there. Thank you. You're welcome :) If I am going to be damned...I am going to be damned for who I really am! |
| SmoothSailing
User ID: 77042548 United States07/01/2020 11:57 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77932578 United States07/02/2020 12:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I read that in ancient times, scribes at the library at Alexandria in Egypt would force all incoming vessels to hand over their books to be copied exactly, after which the copy would be returned to them. If ever modern civilization falls apart, something like this on a local, less centralised scale could be immensely useful for reestablishing a knowledge base for society. Just don't keep it all in one place for some jerk to come along and burn it.  |
| Tubbs
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| Tubbs
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77932578 United States07/02/2020 01:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you have programming skills and a fast internet connection, you can automate the archiving process. not sure how you have a link? No, sorry. If you search for "programming tutorial", you can teach yourself programming, but it takes a while to learn and get good at it. For simplicity with archiving, I'd suggest using a high level language which abstracts away some of the underlying networking and media functions, such as Java or PHP. Otherwise, if you want more general purpose programming skills at the same time, try C++ or some form of BASIC. |
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| Secretizer
User ID: 78467371 United States07/02/2020 01:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If the ill-mannered Zerg swarm is not made to cease their antisocial behavior, then statue toppling will not satiate them. Book burning has happened far too often when demonic forces were at work. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77932578 If I may make a suggestion, the following categories are of critical importance to the future: STEM textbooks of all kinds (science, technology, engineering, & mathematics) Homeschooling material for all levels of education History books not tainted by leftism The Constitution The Declaration of Independence Classical scientific books and papers by well-known European and American scientists Feel free to add to this list. It's best to have both physical paper copies and digital copies if possible. Classic works of philosophy like Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Spinoza, Pascal, Descartes, Leibniz, etc Great works of literature written by white men. |
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| Secretizer
User ID: 78467371 United States07/02/2020 01:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Important to keep actual books and not just digital. I have a large library of history and philosophy and need to buy more. These books will soon disappear as they get expunged from libraries and as bookstores disappear. We all know Amazon cannot be trusted. The new dark ages are upon us. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78214437 Canada07/02/2020 01:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have a shit load of college Chemistry, Medical, and Biology books. I have a ton of other stuff but thought those would be a good idea. What do you think of running a Raspberry Pi with a screen and solar charger? You can read those digital books on it. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78214437 Canada07/02/2020 01:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have a shit load of college Chemistry, Medical, and Biology books. I have a ton of other stuff but thought those would be a good idea. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78214437 What do you think of running a Raspberry Pi with a screen and solar charger? You can read those digital books on it. 300 charges battery life with a ton of unopened replacements. I'm not sure how long batteries last unused though. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77932578 United States07/02/2020 01:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Important to keep actual books and not just digital. Quoting: Secretizer I have a large library of history and philosophy and need to buy more. These books will soon disappear as they get expunged from libraries and as bookstores disappear. We all know Amazon cannot be trusted. The new dark ages are upon us. Indeed, physical books are intensely important. A new dark agree is exactly what I aim to prevent, but it will take all of us doing what we can. Once upon a time, I frequented an amazing university library with an immense collection covering many floors, but I dread to think how it might have changed since then. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77932578 United States07/02/2020 01:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Important to keep actual books and not just digital. Quoting: Secretizer I have a large library of history and philosophy and need to buy more. These books will soon disappear as they get expunged from libraries and as bookstores disappear. We all know Amazon cannot be trusted. The new dark ages are upon us. Indeed, physical books are intensely important. A new dark age is exactly what I aim to prevent, but it will take all of us doing what we can. Once upon a time, I frequented an amazing university library with an immense collection covering many floors, but I dread to think how it might have changed since then. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77932578 United States07/02/2020 01:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have a shit load of college Chemistry, Medical, and Biology books. I have a ton of other stuff but thought those would be a good idea. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78214437 What do you think of running a Raspberry Pi with a screen and solar charger? You can read those digital books on it. Very good, as long as it can be kept functional. Always remember that redundancy is good in this case. Nothing lasts forever. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 77932578 United States07/02/2020 02:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If gasoline becomes unavailable or prohibitively expensive, you can power a car or other internal combustion engine using a wood gas generator. Many years ago, FEMA published plans for a homemade unit. It's said that the design is not optimal, but it should work with readily available equipment. [link to www.build-a-gasifier.com (secure)] Similar designs were used during World War 2 in some parts of the world. |
| The Lathe Of Heaven
User ID: 77515983  United Kingdom07/02/2020 02:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Tales of the butler? What the window cleaner saw? Bareback cowboy? Do tell! Last Edited by The Lathe Of Heaven on 07/02/2020 02:50 AM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 78513563 United States07/02/2020 03:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If the ill-mannered Zerg swarm is not made to cease their antisocial behavior, then statue toppling will not satiate them. Book burning has happened far too often when demonic forces were at work. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77932578 If I may make a suggestion, the following categories are of critical importance to the future: STEM textbooks of all kinds (science, technology, engineering, & mathematics) Homeschooling material for all levels of education History books not tainted by leftism The Constitution The Declaration of Independence Classical scientific books and papers by well-known European and American scientists Feel free to add to this list. It's best to have both physical paper copies and digital copies if possible. Survival guides |
While those wouldn't be my first choice of things to read, preservation of history is important, whether we find it pleasant or not.
