One of the items I’m thinking I need a few more of are the Cheaper brands of e-readers. I currently have an Aluratex brand e-reader I was given by my wonderful family for Christmas a few years back. It’s a very SIMPLE one, black & white. However since it will read PDFs I can take a web page or article and copy it to CUTEPDF creator and save it as a file. Since I would be needing INFORMATION and not bells and whistles that come with all the latest and greatest e-readers, I can go less expensive by buying second hand when I find them. Or older models as mine is.
This allows me to save anything I THINK might become valuable to know in a SHTF situation without having to actually memorize every tiny little thing. I can also store things in subjects on SD cards taped to a listing of WHAT is on that card, saving time later from having to go through 100 different cards to find my information.
I haven’t checked out the Kindle stand alone readers yet, but I do know you can’t copy, save or print to other media with these, and I want my information stored in as many ways as possible.
- Supports PDF (Adobe Digital Edition DRM/non-DRM), TXT, FB2, EPUB (Adobe Digital Edition DRM/non-DRM), MOBI (non-DRM only)
- Supports BMP, JPG, GIF, animated GIF picture format
- Includes 2GB SD Card and 100 free eBooks
What I like about this is that in an off-grid situation it will charge through a USB port making almost any small solar charger good!
I keep several SD cards PACKED FULL of valuable information.
I do also backup everything I save as PDFs etc to DVDs, as we know.. SD cards can and do go bad every now and then, and having things in multiple formats is always a wise idea!
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