Prepared Edition

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.

Emergency WaterBoil times, bleach doses, pool-shock stock, storage rules
Survival PrioritiesRule of 3s, S.T.O.P., order of work when things go wrong
Signals & CodesPhonetic alphabet, Morse, ground-to-air symbols
Radio FrequenciesFRS/GMRS, MURS, NOAA weather, ham calling, CB, marine
First Aid Quick ActionsBleeding, CPR, choking, burns, hypothermia, heat stroke
Essential KnotsEight knots with when-to-use and plain-words steps
Generator & PowerWattage tables, sizing, the CO and backfeed rules
Food Storage Shelf Life25-year staples, canned goods truth, storage tiers

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.

The whole library. No signal required.

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