FREE E-BOOKS: the official thread

[HouseWolf]

Mini Farming For Beginners: How To Build A Self Sustainable Backyard Mini Farm (Backyard Farming - Homesteading - Backyard Chickens - Handbook - Backyard Gardening) [Kindle Edition]



http://www.amazon.com/Mini-Farming-B...rds=free+books

Natural Antibiotics: Amazing Herbs to Know, Use, and Grow for Maximum Health: (Herbs - Natural Remedies, Herbal Remedies) [Kindle Edition]

http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Antibi...rds=free+books

[Babs]

The Man Who Knew Too Much [Kindle Edition]

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (Author)






http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Knew-Much-ebook/dp/B0082SSKYU/ref=pd_sim_kstore_76?ie=UTF8&refRID=0KKQMM08VC4D71 DPV8PT

[Achilles]

[RENMAN358]

List of e-books of old knowledge of 100+ years ago.

http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/list-of-e-books-of-old-knowledge-of-100-years-ago/141971#more-141971

[packyderms_wife]

I soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo want Julia Childs French Cooking: for dumb amerikans w/o a clue cookbook set!!! It's just to spendy at the moment.

[Alder]

Keep in mind that a lot of times you get what you pay for. (zero).

A couple of the free animal care books I've checked out have been worse than useless. Probably downright harmful for the beginner. Take some of this info with a big grain of salt. A lot of times people are trying to make a buck by emptying their brains on a subject and dumping it on a page when their brains don't hold much useful info to start with.

[Disastercat]

Yes, some of them are useless (especially some of the modern ones) but some are priceless. I love the Grandmother's Best series that I first got a few of free and have sent bought others; the women who wrote them is the grand daughter of a lady who trained as a hotel chef in the late 1800's and wrote professional cookbooks herself when she was younger.

The worst ones seem to be those books cobbled together from Internet sources by people trying to make a quick buck with an e-book. Then there are some by people who may be good cooks, but don't really understand how to communicate recipes or other similar information very well.

A good way to weed things out, if you are in a hurry, is to look at the customer reviews. You don't even have to read them, just look for stars if you are really rushed. Between 3 and 5 stars means at least one person probably found it useful; and since it says how many people reviewed it, you can see if 45 people rate it an average between 4 and 5 starts it is probably worth it for free or even 99 cents.

If it has one or two stars and more than one review, it is probably not worth it even for free. Anyone can dislike a book, but if more than one person dislikes a cook book for good reasons (like the one that said "all the recipes in the book are from the Inter, book is poorly written and contains many errors") just skip and move on.

I am hoping to put my Barn Cat book up, but I can say in my blurb that all the information has been reviewed by a Vet which it has. People writing animal care books who are not professionals should always try to have this done as a matter of course, or at least get a qualified vet tech to review the material before publishing.

[Disastercat]

A change of pace from recipe books, I'm also noticing some self-help books and/or in my case good books to have if you need to advise others. I have no idea if this book is good or not (though it looks promising) but I'm adding to my library and hope to at least skim through it. Just a couple of years ago a young women in our group of friend married her long time boyfriend only to have him die three months later (pretty much went into the hospital after the honeymoon).

I wasn't close enough to actually be a listening ear for that one; but the loss of a spouse is the sort of think likely to happen in a SHTF situation (as well as daily life). We often don't think of this sort of information as survival reading but in many ways it is, especially in terms of long term planning.

Anyway, free today on Amazon

[Disastercat]

Have not studied yet but these cook books look useful 1950's vintage recipes

The ABC of Desserts

The ABC's of Herb and Spice cookery

[4Him]

Book Description


It is ten years into the future and the nation’s government is nearing financial and moral collapse. A small group (the TLR) believes deadly force is necessary to save individual liberty from the two-party political aristocracy that divides and controls Congress. They believe dictatorial powers will soon be claimed by the federal government. They announce to the nation . . . and ours is the only form of revolution now possible. But it has this advantage. If lives must be taken, only ours or those that have stolen our lives will be required to forfeit theirs.
They give Congress three days . . . to approve their proposed Term Limits Amendment to the Constitution that prevents professional politicians from serving in Congress. Or, unless they first resign, the long term incumbents will be term-limited in the only way they leave us.
The Department of Justice targets term limits supporters and libertarians in its hunt for the terrorist group. But when the first senator is “term-limited” in spite of all that federal authorities can do to stop it, it is clear the terrorists will not be easily found. They are inside the federal law enforcement agencies that are hunting them.
In this novel, I examine the issue that Thomas Jefferson predicted we would be forced to deal with. All three branches of our federal government have ignored the Constitutions protection of the individual’s rights. They have increased their own powers far beyond the limits provided in the Constitution. But what can we do about it? If our liberties, our right to make our own choices, are diminishing with every year, how do we ever regain them? Is deadly force justified?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0041844AO/?tag=fkbfiction-20