🛟 Offline Emergency Kit — START HERE

This drive is an offline survival library with an AI. Everything works with no internet.

🔎 Find it fast

These pages open in any web browser:

🆘 Emergency finder — something happening right now (bleeding, not breathing, fire, fallout…)? Go straight to the right page. Print it and keep it with the first-aid kit.

📇 Subject index A–Z — look up any word, like the index at the back of a book.

🔢 Unit converter & calculators — measurements, tanks, concrete, wire sizes, recipes and more.

📚 Guides by subject — all 54 guides in 14 groups (below).

Every file on the drive: README.html, and the local books by subject in Southern-Oregon\LOCAL-FILES.html.

🔍 Search everything, and ask the AI

Double-click the START file for your device: START-Windows, START-Mac, START-Linux.sh or START-Android.sh. One search box finds anything on the drive, and an offline AI writes an answer with links to the pages. See Start the Library on Any Device.

What's on this drive

Folder	What it is	Guide
`AI-Offline\`	The offline AI	The offline AI
`Manuals\`	Survival and repair manuals	The manuals folder
`Medical\`	Medical encyclopedia and first-aid books	Medical books
`Wikipedia\`	All of English Wikipedia	Wikipedia and Kiwix
`Map\`	A map for any web browser: roads, topo lines, property lines	Offline maps
`OsmAnd\`	Bigger offline maps, for the OsmAnd phone app or a computer	Offline maps
`Kiwix-Reader\`	The app that opens Wikipedia and the encyclopedias	Wikipedia and Kiwix
`Phone-Apps\`	Apps to put the library on an Android phone	The library on a phone
`Southern-Oregon\`	Illinois Valley local pack: topo & forest maps, hunting & fishing regulations, gardening & food preservation, wild plants, wildfire, earthquake & tsunami, local radio/weather	Illinois Valley quick reference

PDF books and these guides open in any web browser. Wikipedia and the other encyclopedias (.zim files) open in the Library Assistant or the Kiwix app.

📚 Guides by subject

Plain-English guides written for this library. Each one links to the exact book page (📖), to drawings and diagrams in the books (🖼️) and to photos in the offline Wikipedia (📷). Every guide has a 📘 Guides › group bar at the top and Previous / Next links at the bottom, in this order. The same groups appear in the Library Assistant's 📘 Guides and 📚 Books tabs.

🧭 Start here: 🆘 Emergency finder · 📇 Subject index A–Z · Illinois Valley quick reference
🩹 Health & medicine: Injuries with no help coming · Recovering from injuries: rehab · Medical books & found medicines · Childbirth & small children · Sanitation, waste & disease
💧 Water: Water purification · Wells, pumps, springs & cisterns
🍞 Food: Food when it is scarce · Food from scratch · Preserving food · Root cellars & food storage · Milk, butter & cheese · Your seed bank
🌲 Living off the land: Hunting, trapping & fishing · Mushrooms · Skills of the valley's first peoples
🐐 Animals: Chickens · Ducks · Geese · Turkeys · Rabbits · Goats · Sheep · Pigs · Cattle · Horses, mules & draft animals · Bees · Dogs
🏠 Shelter & building: Shelter & building · Natural building · Mortar, concrete & roads
💡 Heat, light & power: Firewood · Fuel · Off-grid power · Storing energy without batteries · Heat into work & power · Candles, lamps & lamp oil · Engines, motors & generators
🛠️ Making & repair: Practical math & measuring · Make-do household · Blacksmithing & hand tools · Clothing, leather & shoes · Paper, ink & toilet paper
🥾 Getting around: On foot: backpacking & travel · Bicycles & carts · Navigation & weather
📡 Radio, community & protection: Emergency radio · Signals & Morse code · Community & barter · Home & property protection
🚨 Disasters: What to expect: scenarios & timelines · Wildfire with no fire department · Nuclear fallout · EMP, solar storms & Faraday cages
📖 Stories & fun: Stories, games & fun for long evenings
💾 Using this library: Start the library on any device · ARK Vault (ammo-can computer) · Get the whole library · The offline AI · Ask the AI about your own PDFs · Wikipedia and Kiwix · Offline maps · The library on a phone · The manuals folder
🔧 Tools: Calculator · Unit converter & calculators — plus the pill identifier (Medical\Pill-Identifier\PILL-IDENTIFIER.html) and walking routes (Southern-Oregon\Walking-Routes\WALKING-ROUTES.html).

⏰ Do these now, while you have internet

Phones: install the free Kiwix and OsmAnd apps (iPhones can only get them from the App Store). See The library on a phone.
GPT4All (optional): its first setup needs the internet once. See Ask the AI about your own PDFs.
Try everything once with the Wi-Fi off, so you know it works.

⚠️ Reminders

Offline AIs and old manuals can be wrong. Verify anything safety-critical.
Keep the drive backed up (a second copy on another drive/USB is wise).
Practice using each tool now so it's familiar in an actual emergency.