Thank You very much!!
Matt

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I'm new to this site but have been a prepper since before Y2K. I have lots of PDF books but not many are printed.

Just wondering how everyone plans on reading their collection if there's no electricity?

I have printed some of the better ones but still have a lot that will never be printed.

Just asking.

Prepper62

Who says there won't be power? There's wind, solar, bio-gas, bio-fuel, and wood gas just to name the primary methods. What there won't be atleast for a considerable time is a Grid. Power however will exist............at least for those who are prepared.

I'll agree with Tracer. I'm off the grid now, and run on a mix of solar and wind.

Case in point, my notebook pc is right now running off an inverter that also powers my wireless isp dish.

As another member once told me in an email exchange - 'off grid' power is more about what you don't need to power as opposed to what you do need to power.

There are Bookoo devices out there as an alternative to grid power,especially for things that use 12v or less.
If you have a smart phone,or E-reader that reads pdf files,and takes SD/Micro SDHC cards.There are crank chargers,straight PV solar chargers,PV solar external batteries,AA battery emergency chargers that you can use NiMH batteries,and recharge them with common PV solar garden/landscape lights.Most of the stuff can be found on Ebay for under $15.
Similar stuff can also be found there for charging a laptops,though a bit more pricey.
Any 18v cordless power tool can easily be converted to generate enough power for charging/running any 12v device that draws 5amps or less.
Take two male blade connectors,each crimped to a 10-14ga wire.Now with a set of long needle nose pliers or hemostats,you slot the blades into the battery contacts inside the handle of the drill.Now you can take the other end of the wires,and connect them to a 12v outlet.
Once that's done,you just chuck in the means to turn the drill,and mount as appropriate.
Ways to crank the drill?
Chuck in a hand crank.
Mount on a pole,and chuck in a set of small shaft mounted wind turbine blades.
Chuck in a small shaft mounted rubber wheel,and mount drill body on a bike to where the wheel makes contact with the back tire.
Chuck onto a weed eater shaft,then construct a paddle wheel to go where the head mounts.Then mount the unit over a moving water source(off a dock,river bank,ect.).
For those with a piped artesian water source,you can chuck in a drill powered fluid pump,and connect it inline.
A steady crank on one of these drill conversions puts out about 14.4v(same as a car)@ 5amps.
It's not many amps(but enough for small devices,or trickle charge a couple of batteries),but several wired in parallel would give more amps for heavier load draw.(X1=5amps,X2=10amps,X3=15amps,X4=20amps,X5=25amps,.....)
OH,FORGOT TO SPLAIN SUMP'N!!
(Cordless power tools will change polarity,depending which way you turn them.You have to set it up to turn only one direction,and mark it with an arrow pointing that way.)
(Then you'll need a digital multi-meter to check the polarity/+- before you hook it up to Charge/power something.)
Matt

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Like Matt said., ( that was pretty impressive, Matt!) I remember HP saying on the radio show that the book readers like Kindle can be charges with a solar pad. I really want to get one..maybe I will see if I can't get one for my birthday this summer and start putting those pdfs on them!