Build your Preparedness Library

[prepngo]

While having a lot of how-to files on one's computer is great, what's going to happen when the lights go out (including the power to run that comptuer)? All those great how-to files will be totally useless.

That is one reason many suggest printing off any information you want to keep and building an hardcopy survival & preparedness library.

Survival Homestead.com (http://www.survival-homestead.com) offers several informative eguides and ebooks, designed to be printed out and placed in a binder. Books about 'dehydrating for bugout' (http://www.survival-homestead.com/survival-preparedness-library.html#foodforbugout)and 'medicinal plants' (http://www.survival-homestead.com/survival-preparedness-library.html#medicinalplants)should be part of everyone's survival library (http://www.survival-homestead.com/survival-preparedness-library.html).

They also sell an ebook package about colloidal silver or ionic silver solution and a survival silver generator. (http://www.survival-homestead.com/survival-preparedness-library.html#survivalsilvergenerator)

[Sarah]

While having a lot of how-to files on one's computer is great, what's going to happen when the lights go out (including the power to run that comptuer)? All those great how-to files will be totally useless.

Prepngo,

You touched on a subject 'near and dear', so let me reply, and I hope others will enjoy, and be able to use.

Search the web for 'B.O.L.T.', (Bug Out Lap Top). *It was a pre-y2k how-to. *A full blowout of how to prep a cheap laptop to run under any conditions, so one had one's library, to include off car batteries and also how to build a fail-safe archive of files, battery, etc. How to step up/down dc voltage if laptop not 12vdc. All kinds of things! I wish the Librum's copy had not 'walked out the door' (five finger discount)(A bane of many libraries.)

Also, do not overlook all the great materials that were microfiched/microfilmed pre-y2k. Many are still for sale, and dirt cheap in this electronic age.

You may also microfilm. We have several y2k collections, and huge microfilm archives of magazines, etc. But conversion to microfilm is expensive, and frankly, film stinks. Yes, a smell. And is climate sensitive. One good cold snap and/or humidity out of range, and the emulsion will start to peel and stick. A *MESS*

You may also microfiche. HP made a 'FichePrint' printer, but it was sold under a lot of different y2k brandnames. We have two. Basically, if you can put into pdf, use save as, and print to the fiche. These are the opaque plastic (normally white), and the lazer burns the images to the fiche. Olivetti also made one, based on their carbon arc ink cannon. If you can find one of these 'tanks', grab it.

It may make you laugh but it does not take any special plastic for fiche. I have seen white milk jugs melted and used. And document protectors. And two mil ziplock bags. Basically any thin thermoplastic that burn marks will show on will work.

Fiche magnifiers are DIRT cheap.

Sarah