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Reader "Dave" comments with a tip:
"I ran into a problem downloading books with the .AZW[1] file extension. They don't show up on the Home page and don't work with Amazon's Kindle for PC download.
"According to the Kindle Forum it's a glitch that they're working on. One can fix it by downloading to your PC (Apple users are on their own), go to the folder you downloaded it to and RENAME the file by deleting "[1]" in the extension. To do that you must go to CONTROL PANEL, select FOLDER OPTIONS, select VIEW, and make sure the line saying "hide extensions for known file types" is unchecked. The file should now read "Yadda-Yadda.AZW" Then just copy it to your Kindle via USB cable."
Thanks for the great tip, Dave! I hope that other readers remember it if and when they run into this problem.
Anonymous also comments with a problem:
"the books have not been coming to my email the last few days...I have my email linked from your blog. I was getting them every day and then nothing."
My reply: I'm sorry this is happening! I haven't changed any settings recently, and I don't know who I would contact to actually get help--Blogger, Google, or some feed company. I have been having troubles with Google Reader working properly for me for over a week now, but I don't know how that can be related. Maybe a more tech-y person has some suggestions....if you do, please help!
Here's what I wrote a while back to someone with a similar problem (only their emails were arriving the next day rather than not at all.) September 18 post about feed problems.
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NONFICTION
General self-sufficiency and survival—today lots of self-defense
Get Real! A Practical Approach to Personal Safety
Prep School: Making Primitive Weapons
Defining Your Trophy Buck And Legal Issues For Deer Hunters - Deer Hunting Books
CONTACT CLOSE COMBAT
Changing Your Brain For Speed Hitting
Martial arts.
Food, Home, and Farming/Gardening
Water, Vitamins, Minerals And Dietary Needs For Goats A Simple Guide (Goat Knowledge)
A John Deere Fit For The King
”How Elvis Presley's John Deere tractor was restored by a team of students and an instructor at Northwest Mississippi Community College. With photos.”
Cook What You Have: A Guide to the Lazy Garden and the Lazy Kitchen
”contains dozens of recipes, as well as cooking and gardening tips and stories. The best part of this book is that it teaches to cook meals using the ingredients available, substituting when needed, and creating your own take on meals.”
Food Canning: How To Safely Preserve Foods
JeBouffe Home Canning Step by Step Guide (second edition) Revised and Expanded
This one is free long-term so doesn’t come up on searches as new, but I occasionally remember to find it again and relist it.
Understanding Hot Water Heating Systems
Health
The Eczema Itch Buster Most Skincare Companies Don't Want You To Know About (Heal Yourself With Nutritional Therapy)
ADD - Diet and Nutrients Don't Affect ADD... or Do They?
Acne Free for Life - 28 Days to Radiant Skin in Youth and Beyond
”Weston A. Price diet Friendly!”
Education
Maurice on the Moon (The Maurice Series)
”an adopted science text for students from 5th to 8th grade in several districts across Southern California…earth and space science.”
Counting With Tesla
“Little geeks in training can learn numbers big and small while also learning all kinds of electrifying facts about Tesla's inventions. “
Ideas/Theory
Changing Zip Codes: Finding Community Wherever You're Transplanted, An Inspirational Guide for the Unemployed, Uprooted, Cast Off, Deployed, Transferred, and Outsourced (Relocating)
The T.A.S.S.L.E. Plan
Finance-debt elimination.
Would The Real First Amendment Please Stand Up?
True Accounts
War Stories: An Enlisted Marine In Vietnam
Lt Col John Withers, Civil War Confederate Officer, In His Own Words: American Civil War Journal of Asst Adjt General for Jefferson Davis, records of civil war life, battles, history
Letters from Alcatraz
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FICTION
Nature Survival and other Hardship
Turn Back Time (The Stoneworth Chronicles)Award winning. Excellent and extensive reviews. “Security, gentleness, joy, love, and faith were hallmarks of Hattie Stoneworth Crowe’s life. Now the horrors of the Great Depression and the death of her husband threaten her future and that of her three-year-old daughter and unborn child. A potentially greater danger looms from an unexpected source. Smith Delaney, an out-of-work miner known for his wanderlust, hair-trigger temper, fast fists, and love for liquor comes to her looking for work as a handyman. Against all reason, she hires him. Their story is set in the coal fields of Muhlenberg County, in west-central Kentucky. Through hardships of the times, through birth and death, tragedy and triumph, a young woman seeks to hold on to faith and family; and a lonely man seeks family and faith. “
A Room of My Own (Historical Fiction Best Sellers)
Great depression
Before the Scarlet Dawn: Daughters of the Potomac, Book 1
“Circumstances throw Eliza in Hayward's path, and they flee to America to escape the family conflicts. But as war looms, it's a temporary reprieve. Hayward joins the revolutionary forces and what follows is a struggle for survival, a test of faith, and the quest to find lasting love in an unforgiving wilderness.”
Politics, Terrorism, and Intrigue/Conspiracy
The Sleeper
Aviation terrorism
Fall of the Citizens
Or maybe this should be in the next section. A little hard to tell. “A pharmaceutical company receives a lucrative government contract for a vaccine currently coveted by the entire U.S. population. They set the price at $60,000 per shot, putting the vaccine out of the reach of all but the wealthiest of Americans. The situation creates a class warfare powder keg that only needs one thing to ignite, the words of a man….A revolution has begun.”
Pandora's Succession
hyperdeadly microbe
BALLISTIC
“A Nuclear Missile...A Band of Terrorists... And Only Two People Who Can Prevent Armageddon. When a doomsday cult captures an U.S. Air Force missile base, it's up to a lowly sergeant and a female psychiatrist to prevent a nuclear holocaust.”
Collapse, Post-Apocalypse, Speculative Futures
The Codex file
“Forget everything you think you know about the internet. If you think nefarious web sites peddling a cocktail of online scams, illegal pornography, racial hatred and vicious computer viruses was all you had to worry about - think again. The government has banned access to the internet and the world wide web, dubbing it an illegal, unregulated zone. Sounds good news doesn't it, until you know that its replacement controls every aspect of your life, from digital content, provision of your gas, water and electricity, and all your money. And with everything and everybody connected, we're all now potential targets if we oppose it. Do you still feel safe? Empowered? Connected?”
The Broken Road
“Ten short stories around the themes of the wasteland, the post-apocalypse, psychological growth, sanity, madness, war and liberation. “
The Change In History
Short story. “The aftermath and lead-up to the fall of an empire. Follow along as one man chronicles the the fall of the United States. Set in the future, between 2016 and 2026, corporations and government battle for ultimate control over the population. As laws are made, freedoms are taken but behind the scenes an uprising is about to occur and world powers are set to collide.”
The Declaration
“Democracy and freedom require constant vigilance, now more than ever. In The Declaration, discover what happens when a President sees himself as above the law…and a nation tries to free itself from his unrighteous grasp on the levers of power. It’s not just a novel. It’s a warning of what could happen…and sooner than we think.”
More Sci-Fi-or-Fantasy-ish
A Hero Rising (A New Dawn)
The Bionics (The Bionics Series Part 1)
Shorter, set in nuclear wasteland.
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REDUCTIONS
Breakers
Sci-fi, virus. “When Vanessa dies of the flu, Walt is devastated. But she isn't the last. The virus quickly kills billions, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. As Raymond and Mia hole up in an abandoned mansion, where they learn to function without electricity, running water, or neighbors, Walt begins an existential walk to LA, where Vanessa had planned to move when she left him. He expects to die along the way.
Months later, a massive vessel appears above Santa Monica Bay. Walt is attacked by a crablike monstrosity in a mountain stream. The virus that ended humanity wasn't created by humans. It was inflicted from outside. The colonists who sent it are ready to finish the job--and Earth's survivors may be too few and too weak to resist.”
Original Price: $4.95 Previous Price: $2.99 (According to the book-watching program I use)
Current Price: $.99
PLAGUE, The Release
“A war weary veteran, Chris Owens, returns to his apartment after his team's mission in rural Western Maryland. The mission to find and secure a contaminated soldier appeared successful, but the situation quickly spirals out of control as the uncontained virus spreads at an astounding rate. As death spreads across the landscape, it has an even more ghastly consequence and small groups of everyday people try to survive. A father and his two children witness the destruction and death from the distance of their remote cabin, but they are not insusceptible to the onslaught of the virus. A woman and her elderly father avoid the quarantines and roadblocks to escape the city only to find death encroaching in the countryside. As these few survivors band together in a world where they are the minority, their survival is measured in hours. Chris deals with his own demons while attempting to avoid the ever growing number of infected who relentlessly pursue the survivors; his mission: to keep everyone alive long enough to find asylum or answers. Time is quickly running out.”
Previous Price: $7.99 (According to the book-watching program I use)
Current Price: $4.99
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