What are essential books you should have before its all gone?

[Guntwranglerpole]

Like the title says, what books should you buy or archive before everything gets shut down, or government decides to increase their censorship and sanitize the internet further. With the recent assassination of that UnitedHealthcare CEO, government might start marking people who view and bought Ted Kacynski's unabomber manifesto. And sites like Anne-archive and Archive.org might disappear and be shut down one day. And with how Gen Z and Gen Alpha are grasping technology nowadays, it seems inevitable we will be falling under an idocracy because technologies like torrenting might be outdated and useless in 10+ years.

The goal is to list books that can make you be less dependent on the government or any centralized authority, as much as it can get you and love ones to stand on your own two feet. And books that government, whether in the United States, Europe, China, Russia and other countries don't want most people to read like how the federal reserve actually work that Null read and recommended once.

Books about cryptocurrency, plumbing, electricity, carpentry, mechanical engineering, cybersecurity?

EDIT: list also old encyclopedias and papers that are not bias. I can only think of Encyclopedia Britannica at the top of my head.

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

The Holy Bible.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

The Bible. KJV version, natch
The Encyclopedia of Country Living
The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

plumbing, electricity, carpentry, mechanical engineering

In a general sense (in other words, not specific books per se but subject matters) everyone should have several of these types of books in their library, as well as books on HVAC, radio signals, smithing, gardening/farming/fishing/canning/salting/curing, animal husbandry, weapons, medical books etc. I don't think these are at much risk of being memory-holed but would be good to have in case the grid goes down or in any general SHTF situation.

how the federal reserve actually work that Null read and recommended once.

My guess would be this was referring to G. Edward Griffin - The Creature From Jekyll Island, can confirm that is a great book and one that could be made "less available" as time goes on.

Along those lines, pretty much anything written by Kerry Bolton is going to be full of inconvenient things worthy of memory-holing. To see how this memory-holing happens in real time, try to find The Fourth Political Theory by Alexander Dugin on Amazon or at your local library.

Scott Howard has some very well-documented and equally inconvenient books worth having.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe - Democracy The God That Failed makes an ironclad case that Democracy is incompatible with freedom by definition, and that it can only ever lead to ever larger crises until it eats itself. This is important to understand because as more people get suffrage, things tend to get worse, not better.

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illitch is dated but a very good critique on public schooling. There may be newer books out that expand the case, but this is the one that laid the foundation I think.

Probably a good idea to have some books on propaganda techniques. Both warnings against it such as Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky, Coercion by Douglas Rushkoff etc and books written on how to do it to others so you can recognize it such as Cashvertising by Drew Eric Whitman. The best books on propaganda tend to be about advertising in general, but the techniques apply for government/media manipulation as well. Instead of getting people to buy useless shit, you want to get them to buy your load of horseshit. Same rules apply for the most part, it's all just the application of human psychology to achieve desired ends. So you need to be able to spot it and teach others how to spot it.

And of course Uncle Ted's books are worth having hard copies of. Industrial Society and It's Future is not a very well-written book, but the ideas in it and the predictions of what was to come were spot on which makes it a very prescient and important work to have, and yes it will cause concern if you ask your librarian for it. His other main work is Technological Slavery which was written much better and read like a professional editor took time to assist, but it's not nearly as important as his first ISAIF was. It expands on what he said so it's worth having though.

I'm missing a ton, but especially important history books will be important to have since these fuckers love to rewrite history and change narratives.

 

[CryptoHermit]

In a general sense (in other words, not specific books per se but subject matters) everyone should have several of these types of books in their library, as well as books on HVAC, radio signals, smithing, gardening/farming/fishing/canning/salting/curing, animal husbandry, weapons, medical books etc. I don't think these are at much risk of being memory-holed but would be good to have in case the grid goes down or in any general SHTF situation.

The "Volunteers in International Technical Assistance" is a sadly now defunt doctors without borders style charity for 3rd world disaster relief with USAID and has all their technical manuals for all sorts of topics available in the internet archive. Specifically their "Village Technology Handbook" has everything you could need on a small village setting. I have a webspace by a guy called Alex Weir who has all their 166 published technical manuals for download. https://archive.org/details/villagetechnolog0000unse/page/n15/mode/2up / http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/VITAlist.html (list of VITA publications, the hyperlinks to Alex Weirs website don't work since he remade the site to here : https://www.cd3wdproject.org/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM )

There's a public archive group called "The Eye" that did a lot of archiving of Xitter and Telegram in particular throughout the war in Ukraine for anyone interesting in that however the thing I'm pointing out for them is that they have a complete archive of ps-survival.com and survivorlibrary.com for "restarting civilisation" here: https://beta.the-eye.eu/public/Books/pssurvival.com/PS/ + https://beta.the-eye.eu/public/Books/survivorlibrary.com/. They also have all these as .tar files if anyone here wants to torrent them.

 

[Guymera]

With each day of the last few years bringing new evidence for doomsayers and preppers to feel justified in their hobby, I ironically think there won't be a lack for what many would call "the basics", though I do acknowledge the very real risk of lost knowledge. Even if completely lost however, much of math and science (and engineering, gardening, etc) can be (and throughout human history likely has already been) rediscovered.

Instead, I would be concerned about how few people are archiving recent publications in science, literature, and history, especially pertaining to geopolitics. By recent, I mean from the 70s to about 2016, as efforts to preserve publications made in that time period appear to be under attack if the last ten or so years are anything to go by. My feeling is that the books most likely to disappear would be anything that could be considered propaganda that goes against the current narrative for what constitutes modernism or truth. Old encyclopedias would be a good candidate, as would any papers published about the biological differences between men or women, or in regards to health or novel cancer treatment or prevention, etc. This is why manifestos have the reputation they do, and it is, for instance, the same reason most history classes in the US do not translate the German when showing footage of nazi speeches.

 

[CoolGuy1990]

how 2 guides
anything from bushcraft, engine repair, home gardening, navigation manuals, weapon maintenance and modification, chemistry for dummies. general use manuals

 

[A Hot Cheese Sandwich]

Great Sausage Recipes and Meat Curing by Rytek Kutas goes over every single aspect of the manufacture and processing of one of the oldest methods of meat preservation known to man, and is just a good read all around.

Also any US Army field explosives manuals as they are mostly in the public domain at this point and provide insight into obtaining helpful (not just for bomb building) base compounds from everyday products that will likely be written off as otherwise disposable.

 

[Spamton G. Spamton]

All [WH4CKY?!!] people should have the following, assuming they are [Of legal reading age]:

-Holy Bible (whatever approved translation you want. I prefer the Jerusalem Translation)
-Foxfire Collection (entire book collection with gems centered around Appalachian folk medicine, survival, etc)
-Gates of Fire (for general philosophical understanding of war, love and how to combat fear)
-At least one book on poetry. For the unlearned, I reccommend Robert Frost as his poems are easy to understand but have a lot of depth. Otherwise I reccommend the American Transcendentalists, or any other poet of choice.
-US Army has a publication directorate that's both public and free. Reccommend field manuals and training manuals on broad topics.
-Guilty Pleasure reads & personal development (for me it's Can't Hurt Me by Goggins)
-Decline of the Roman Empire, or any of the Classics (can't go wrong here)
-Books like Dune, LotR, etc. At least some kind of good fantasy to break up all the non-fiction.
-Above all, look through local libraries and book giveaways for things that interest you. There are hidden gems everywhere.

I can go on but really reading should center around a trifecta of non-fiction, self development/technical knowledge & good fiction for fun. If you rotate through these three kinds of books at once, you'll read a lot more than you currently do (at least it works for me).

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Very important for archiving.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

The entire collection from pallet and press all of the books by uncle festo on how to make homemade explosives U.S. Army field manual.
Several copies of the BSA handbook it actually has a lot of useful information in it.
Sieging the castle

Defending Your Castle: Build Catapults, Crossbows, Moats, Bulletproof Shields, and More Defensive Devices to Fend Off the Invading Hordes​

the warrior of the flea
tm 31 210 improvised munitions handbook

Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare

basically any technical manual is good written on generalised information there's a lot of good manuals on car repair HVAC plumbing one of my favorites is the really efficient Carpenter a book written by one of the greatest carpenters of the 21st century it's about framing.

 

[CryptoHermit]

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Group:Low-tech_Lab#
https://www.appropedia.org/Low-tech_Lab / https://archive.ph/d9MwL
Low-Tech Lab is a French NGO that's obsessed with "Low-Tech" solutions and jury-rigging DIY stuff to be cheap and quick to use in disaster scenarios and developing countries. They publish all their articles from creative commons. They also have a book on a past and forgotten patents for contemporary technologies that have only now become in vogue. They do a whole study of them like Augustin Mouchot's solar collector before mass electricfication, Raphaël Horace Dubois that wanted to replace lightbulbs with luminescent bacteria routinely fed starch substrate etc..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Retrotech-Lowtech-forgotten-patents-future-ebook/dp/B095QRRSBM

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook

 

[Shroom King]

Here you go:

 

[888Flux]

https://wiki.lowtechlab.org/wiki/Group:Low-tech_Lab#
https://www.appropedia.org/Low-tech_Lab / https://archive.ph/d9MwL
Low-Tech Lab is a French NGO that's obsessed with "Low-Tech" solutions and jury-rigging DIY stuff to be cheap and quick to use in disaster scenarios and developing countries. They publish all their articles from creative commons. They also have a book on a past and forgotten patents for contemporary technologies that have only now become in vogue. They do a whole study of them like Augustin Mouchot's solar collector before mass electricfication, Raphaël Horace Dubois that wanted to replace lightbulbs with luminescent bacteria routinely fed starch substrate etc..
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Retrotech-Lowtech-forgotten-patents-future-ebook/dp/B095QRRSBM

This stuff is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Medic]

The Bible KJV and The 48 Laws of Power would be my top two.

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

While not falling under the "books that will be banned" category, I would suggest shop manuals for any vehicle or machinery that you possess, to keep things in running order. Technical manuals dealing with metalworking/smithing, building, electrical (if you have any off grid power), and especially small scale farming/ permaculture/ livestock management. Humans lived for a very long time without having modern conveniences, but we live a very short time without eating.
There's other things; water filtration, food preservation, medicines, but you get the idea.

Unless it's a full SHTF moment, in which case your religious text of choice and a fuckload of ammo is all you'll need.

 

[Forever A Loner]

I'm not leaving this one behind in the apocalypse.

 

[Heem 'em all.]

As much European myth, folklore and history as you can carry, preferably pre-1990s editions.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Bible - KJV/NIV

You can pick this up cheaply in pretty much any used book shop/charity store:

This is an older book, published in the 70's, and the advantage of it is that everything is analogue. It is all stuff you can do without needing any computers/digital equipment.