Re: Full-text Homesteading related books online...

[bigjack]

Thanks for the links, this is an absolute treasure trove of information.-Jack

[PrepLady]

Hope Preliator sees this--I've never seen so much biodiesel info as what was on the Journey to Forever site. It'll take me some time to wade through all of that! And it has some info on using the glycerin by-product, too, which I've been seeking for awhile. Thanks, Martin!

PL

[LeftoverHippies]

Thanks AlchemyAcres... This is my kind of readin material.

The ebooks can be downloaded and put on cd's... I hope. I've never done this before.

:D

[RangerRick]

You sir are a prince among men. Tks guy.

Ranger Rick

[MomKat]

Also check out The Humanure Book by Joseph Jenkins at

http://www.joseph-jenkins.com/online_pubs.html

Yes, it's about composting human manure, but there's also tons of info about composting that you're not likely to find all in one place.

Sue

[Walking_Tall]

Wow! Thanks a million AA!!! This will give me plenty to study while I get educated in the area of homesteading.

Jerry

[Chewy]

Great Links, Thank You

[CommanderKeen]

Yes Great Links. Only 1 problem. Money to print these books, because it impossible to read 100+ pages in notepad.
Any ideas on how to cheaply print stuff off ?
Commercial places want 5c.
Libraries want the same.
Sneaking into an office building and a cd-rom full of ebooks is not that easy. Besides these days they dont even have cd roms in most offices, schools etc.

Any ideas :?

[farmerstac]

Thanks alot AA now the days are filling up with learning instead of bordem. This is a great site for anybody that wants to learn about homesteading. I cann't wait till I get my first magazine.

[Plains_Scout]

Nice post thank you.

[Lost_and_Found]

I've got one to add: http://www.thelitterbox.org/librum/

[upstallboom]

These are not full-text (just a lot of old-time recipes, etc.) but being in China, I found them immensely helpful. How to make something from little or nothing always catches my eye.

http://waltonfeed.com/self/index.html

[upstallboom]

Sorry, look under "Old Timer Pages" in the chart.

[woodsrunner]

One of the first books I aquired back in high school was an old copy of "Dick's Encyclopedia". It's a must have for any homesteader, as it was printed origionaly in the 1870's for the homesteaders back then.

It can be found here. along with many other good reads.

http://www.librum.us/

This is the correct link for the one that Lost and Found posted. That one has moved.

[longshot]

gonna add this one for striker so it doesn't get lost


Link: http://www.again.net/~steve/page7c.htm


good info

longshot

[ryanmercer]

Wow, thanks for all the links. I almost think we need a sticky somewhere with just a huge collection of links.

[longshot]

another really good one

http://ftpforge.chez-alice.fr/Blacksmithing.pdf


great info for anyone wanting to set up a smithy at minimal cost


ls

[Hallo]

And just for fun, check out: :)

http://www.thefencepost.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index

A good Down-home publication-- some of you likely read it already... ;)

[DavidOH]

Something I've found recently.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Im checking out the science books available.
Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall

I've been wanting to read this one:
Sun Tzu
See: Sunzi, 6th cent. B.C.

Sun Tzu
Wikipedia
zh.wikipedia
兵法 (Bīng Fǎ) (Chinese)
The Art of War (English)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17405/17405-h/17405-h.htm

[StephiLou]

I used to work for the gutenberg website! :) The guy that started it is at the University of Illinois. He is a computer professor (go figure). ;) Anyway, his goal was to get 1 million books on-line. I haven't checked if he has gotten there yet.

He also downloads complete archives of the website onto cd's. Then we all go out to Illini or more often, high school playoff games (basketball, football, etc.) During halftime we throw all of the cd's to the crowd. We are usually out within a minute and a half. Hopefully, the kids actually use the stuff when they get home.

By the way, this is a great homeschooler's resource. They also have a lot of good classic literature on-line

Steph

[armels]

I posted this statement on the Homesteader/Survivors library thread. Here it is:

Just an idea here.
When I find a site that is very in depth or specific to something I want to know or keep for later, I save the site page as a PDF. There is a free PDF program called CutePDF www.cutepdf.com. This PDF program turns the site page, pictures and all, into a book appearance. It takes up some memory, but is worth it in that the site might be gone later, but I still got the information the way it was presented.
If you have Adobe, or Cute or any other PDF program, try it some time.
Oh, and thanks to everyone for the title suggestions.

[Suzy]

man, how am I supposed to get back to my writing for work when I have all this neat (and useful!!!) stuff to read!!!! THANKS!!! :D

[FN64]

WOW.. I just went thru some of the links and am amazed!!
Especially like the gutenberg site. E-books are great for me as my eyes arent what they used to be so the 'puter makes the txt bigger!!

Heres a site with tons of military field manuals:
http://www.stevespages.com/page7c.htm

Thanks all..

FN

[Sarah]

Just a quick note, the http://www.librum.us site has undergone a major upgrade.

And the purchase-able CD/DVDs also.

Sarah

[TNDadx4]

I don;t recall seeing this link mentioned, so here it is.

http://www.eaglerising.org/Library.html

According to their website, they "We will serve this mission by collecting links to information on emergency situations, sustainability, survival, preparation for the future, and rebuilding civilization if necessary. "

There are a number of .pdf documents on their library page with everything from solar to livestock to biodiesel.

[TNDadx4]

Just came across another good link with .pdfs, etc. to share.

Check out: http://survive.urbanbushpeople.org/

[randallhilton]

Just came across another good link with .pdfs, etc. to share.

Check out: http://survive.urbanbushpeople.org/


So many links! I decided to try out DownLoadThemAll (http://www.downloadatoz.com/_vista/pdt_download.php?product_id=downthemall), an add in for Fire Fox. It seems to be working nicely but it will be tomorrow before it finishes with this page!

[samie]

hi where is the first part of this thread that has the links

???

[siderea]

That's what I was wondering....
This thread seems to start in the middle. I would love to see the list and thank whomever for putting it together......
and read....

[AlchemyAcres]

Sorry!

Here's the important part of my original post.....

http://chla.library.cornell.edu/

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chlinks.html
(Scroll down to Historic Information-Full text of 19th and early 20th century materials)

http://medinfo.psu.ac.th/medlink/ebook.htm#single

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

http://www.netlibrary.com/library_home_page.asp

http://www.soilandhealth.org/



~Martin

[siderea]

Wow, that was quick. That should keep me from doing laundry for the rest of the evening!
Thanks a bunch!
lcc