No electricity anymore what books are a must have for your library?
Let’s say there has been some kind of apocalypse and we don’t have access to electricity anymore. What books would be a must have for your library to help you pass the time.
As for what’s already physical outside of my little library, I’d take gp to the nearest bookstore and load up on tons of other sci fi and fantasy series I haven’t started.
NotAnEmergency22 on
How to farm.
Expert_Squirrel_7871 on
Complete Dickens catalog as well as collected works of Dostoevsky
BelmontIncident on
No electricity is no brain waves, so I’m dead.
Changing that to no power grid, I’ll be spending most of my time either trying to produce food or running from and fighting against people who have decided to try to eat me. Passing the time is not a major issue but I will take nonfiction on how people did things in the 19th century and earlier for help in rebuilding civilization.
If I ever got to the point of having leisure time again, probably the complete Discworld by Terry Pratchett.
netscape_now on
A book on the history of electricity (and perhaps, how to create it)
bigbysemotivefinger on
“How to Invent Everything” along with all the survivalism and farming manuals I can find.
Codices of edible plants for my area and everything southward, in case I have to leave.
As for leisure, if I expect to have any, I might take up reading those overly long classics like *War and Peace* since books like that were intended to be read for months.
Like /u/Fearless_Freya said, there’s lots of sci-fi and fantasy series I’ve never made time for. Maybe I’ll give Malazan another chance.
Then again, knowing my luck, I would end up like that guy from the Twilight Zone episode, breaking my glasses on day one.
8Deer-JaguarClaw on
“Where There is No Doctor” and also “Where There is No Dentist”. You know, since society has collapsed and what we have come to think of as standard services are no longer available. 🙂
ConsciousRoyal on
I’ve seen the Twilight zone – I’m making sure I’ve got some spare glasses first.
Queenofhackenwack on
LMAO…. i always have a stack of “real”books, from my what i want to read next list… i have 8 in my pile right now….. where i live the lights go out and sometimes down for days… and i don’t give a shit…
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I would go with Encyclopedia
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– The Encyclopedia of Country Living – Carla Emery
– Sam Thayer’s Field Guide to Edible Plants
– Appalachian Mushrooms – Walter Sturgeon
– The Foxfire Series
– The Merck Manual
– The Modern Herbal Dispensatory – Thomas Easley
– Rodale’s Garden Problem Solver – Jeff Ball
– a wide selection of field guides
– the collection of Storey’s livestock books
– Gazeteers of the local area.
– Fiction would hopefully include the Longmire Series by Craig Johnson, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, a collection of Sherlock Holmes, and the Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz. Anything beyond that i would consider a bonus
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Kindle and solar chargers. Heh
As for what’s already physical outside of my little library, I’d take gp to the nearest bookstore and load up on tons of other sci fi and fantasy series I haven’t started.
How to farm.
Complete Dickens catalog as well as collected works of Dostoevsky
No electricity is no brain waves, so I’m dead.
Changing that to no power grid, I’ll be spending most of my time either trying to produce food or running from and fighting against people who have decided to try to eat me. Passing the time is not a major issue but I will take nonfiction on how people did things in the 19th century and earlier for help in rebuilding civilization.
If I ever got to the point of having leisure time again, probably the complete Discworld by Terry Pratchett.
A book on the history of electricity (and perhaps, how to create it)
“How to Invent Everything” along with all the survivalism and farming manuals I can find.
Codices of edible plants for my area and everything southward, in case I have to leave.
As for leisure, if I expect to have any, I might take up reading those overly long classics like *War and Peace* since books like that were intended to be read for months.
Like /u/Fearless_Freya said, there’s lots of sci-fi and fantasy series I’ve never made time for. Maybe I’ll give Malazan another chance.
Then again, knowing my luck, I would end up like that guy from the Twilight Zone episode, breaking my glasses on day one.
“Where There is No Doctor” and also “Where There is No Dentist”. You know, since society has collapsed and what we have come to think of as standard services are no longer available. 🙂
I’ve seen the Twilight zone – I’m making sure I’ve got some spare glasses first.
LMAO…. i always have a stack of “real”books, from my what i want to read next list… i have 8 in my pile right now….. where i live the lights go out and sometimes down for days… and i don’t give a shit…
I would go with Encyclopedia
– The Encyclopedia of Country Living – Carla Emery
– Sam Thayer’s Field Guide to Edible Plants
– Appalachian Mushrooms – Walter Sturgeon
– The Foxfire Series
– The Merck Manual
– The Modern Herbal Dispensatory – Thomas Easley
– Rodale’s Garden Problem Solver – Jeff Ball
– a wide selection of field guides
– the collection of Storey’s livestock books
– Gazeteers of the local area.
– Fiction would hopefully include the Longmire Series by Craig Johnson, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams, a collection of Sherlock Holmes, and the Odd Thomas Series by Dean Koontz. Anything beyond that i would consider a bonus