A library that works when nothing else does.
The Prepared Edition ships with 260+ survival and homestead references — and an AI that has read all of them. Ask a question in plain English; get an answer sourced from the library, with zero internet.
Eight cards you can print and keep with your kit
One page each, designed for the fridge door, the bug-out bag, and the glovebox. Laminate them and forget them until it matters.
What's on the stick
Government field manuals, USDA guides, and classic how-to books from the era when every household did these things by hand. Every one readable on the stick — and searchable by just asking.
Survival & field manuals
- U.S. Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 (1992)
- FM 3-05.70 Survival — the 650-page successor
- U.S. Army Ranger Handbook TC 3-21.76
- Air Force SERE Handbook AFH 10-644 (644 pages)
- FM 21-76-1 Survival, Evasion & Recovery
- FM 31-70 Basic Cold Weather Manual
- Never Say Die — RCAF survival manual
- Galton's The Art of Travel (1872)
Medical, when help is far away
- Emergency War Surgery (Borden Institute, 5th Ed.)
- Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook
- U.S. Army Special Forces Medical Handbook
- FM 4-25.11 First Aid
- FM 21-10 Field Hygiene and Sanitation
- Radiological casualty management (AFRRI)
- Chemical & biological casualty handbooks
Food: grow it, catch it, keep it
- USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning (2015)
- 16 classic USDA Farmers' Bulletins — drying, pickling, butchering beef & pork, poultry, rabbits, sheep, bees, orchards, root storage, ice harvesting, home tanning
- Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants (1919)
- Kephart's Camp Cookery (1910)
- Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey Bee
Shelter & hands-on skills
- FM 5-426 Carpentry & FM 5-103 Field Fortifications
- FM 5-125 Rigging Techniques
- Shelters, Shacks and Shanties (1914)
- Log Cabins: How to Build and Furnish Them (1889)
- Farm Blacksmithing (1901)
- Soap-Making Manual (1922)
- Knots, Splices and Rope Work (1917)
Woodcraft classics
- Kephart's Book of Camping and Woodcraft (1910)
- Seton's Book of Woodcraft (1912)
- Beard's Camp-Lore and Woodcraft (1920)
- Nessmuk's Woodcraft
- Camp Life in the Woods (1881)
- Deadfalls and Snares (1907) & Tracks and Tracking
- Hunting with the Bow and Arrow (1923)
- Canoe and Boat Building (1885)
Disaster readiness
- FEMA: Are You Ready — the 200-page citizen guide
- FEMA CERT Basic Training Participant Manual
- Emergency Financial First Aid Kit
- EPA Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water
- Nuclear War Survival Skills
- U.S. Army map reading & land navigation manuals
- FM 3-25.150 Combatives
Every Prepared stick also includes bonus reading beyond this list. And it's still your stick: add your own PDFs — manuals, medical records, maps — and Think Stick reads those too.
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