Free books updated June 30, 2013

Today's new books are entered.   They include a couple of those troublesome Pollard books, which will only be free a few hours.

As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free. 

Preparedness Fair #20

Welcome to the 

PREPAREDNESS FAIR #20

I'm trying a new "widget" that allows readers to share links easily on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.  If you hover your mouse over the picture for each link entered, you'll see the little P, F, and T icon for those things.  It would be wonderful if you could both post entries to the Fair, and share Fair links on those networks.

If you haven't checked out the excellent posts on the previous Preparedness Fairs, please scroll down the right sidebar to "Preparedness Fair" under the Labels heading, or just click here.  Bloggers always appreciate readers showing support by leaving a comment when they check out posts too.

Please add your preparedness posts below--

And please TELL YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE INTO PREPAREDNESS about the Fair.  We need lots of great posts--and we need as many as possible to benefit from them!   Could you please invite people to share here? 

FEATURED POST from last week.

Actually 2 from the same great blog, LIVE READY NOW!:

Grow Your Own Animal Feed, Part I

Grow Your Own Animal Feed, Part II

An excellent series from an off-the-grid family on a very important skill--providing for your animals.  Thank you so much for sharing these posts and your knowledge and skills!  Please grab the featured button on the left for your sidebar.  :D

Here's the Fair:
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The Preparedness Fair is a blog hop, a collection of posts from various people, where we'd love preparedness bloggers to share their posts about many aspects of being prepared!  A new Fair will begin every Saturday and will be open for 3 days.  The following week's Fair will include a Featured Post, which will be either the most viewed or a favourite that I choose. Featured bloggers can grab a Featured button to put on their blog, if they so desire.

Please take a moment to read through the guidelines.

What kinds of posts to enter....
--At the moment it's open to just about anything disaster-preparedness related--that YOU have written.  
--Pictures always help...they make posts more accessible, and more read!  The thumbnails on the "Fair" are fairly big, so the better quality the picture you choose, the better it will look once up.
--Please, no foul language or non-family-friendly images in the posts.  No stores or selling, please, or completely unrelated posts or spam.  Any of the these will have to be removed without notice.

Blog hop etiquette
1. Please grab the button below and add it to the exact post that you linked.  (That way people who read your post can find their way here to find other posts about similar topics.

HOW to add the button:
A. Copy the code that's inside the grab box under the image at the bottom of this post.  It's also on the sidebar at lower left.
B. Paste it into the html code of your blog post, so that the image shows up when it's posted. (For example, in Blogger, use the "HTML" option instead of the "Compose" option.) Write something like "This post shared at:" before the button.

You can add the button to your sidebar if you like also, but it still needs to be in the specific post that you enter as well. Many blog hop hosts say that posts that don't have a link or button added to the post itself can't be chosen as the Feature Post, or that it will be removed; I don't want to do that, but do ask that you choose to add the button.  
2.  Please don't enter posts with foul language or non-family-friendly images.  No stores or selling, no completely unrelated posts or spam, please, these will be removed.
3. Please link to the actual post, not the main blog.   I've set it to only accept specific posts.  Please let me know if this complicates things for you.
4. It's always appreciated if you visit some of the other entries, and people usually appreciate comments too.

Worried about anonymity?
I realize that a lot of people who are serious about preparing for disasters or hard times also are wary of sharing too much. Note that you don't have to enter your email address in the address field, you can just use a dash.  Or perhaps you don't have a blog for this reason so haven't written any posts. For the moment I'd suggest that you could open a blog that has little personal or identifying information. Please do share your wisdom, though--there are many of us who can benefit!

How to enter your post....
If you're a seasoned "blog hopper" you'll know this, but if you're new at it...
1. First put the Preparedness Fair button into your post. It's lower down in the blog sidebar at left and also way down at the very bottom of this post. (See Etiquette heading above, #1)
2. Click on the little blue "Add Your Link" button at the bottom of the post
3. Enter the URL (internet address) of the specific post, not the home page of your blog. This way the links will remain accurate indefinitely.
4. Where it says "Name" put the title you want for your entry (not your name!).
5. For email address, if you are concerned about anonymity, you can just put a dash. (If there's abuse I'll have to rethink it.) An email address means I can contact you if there's a problem with your entry.
6. Click 'Next Step."
7. Follow prompts for choosing a photo for a thumbnail. By clicking on the tabs at the top you can choose a photo from your blog post or from your computer. You can crop it yourself if it's from your blog post, or let the software crop it for you.
[If the photo is from your computer, you can't crop it yourself; the computer will crop for you. If that's a problem you might want to make the photo square on a photo edit program first.]
8. Come back to the original page to make sure your entry worked, and visit some of the other links.
9. If you make a mistake, you can click on the little red X by your entry to delete it, and do it again.

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Free books updated June 29, 2013. Preparedness Fair to follow

Today's new books are entered.   I'm very happy to say that there are new books under EVERY heading today!  :D    

As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free. 

Amazon doesn't seem to be publishing new free books today....

at least not in the searches that I do.  This is quite rare but does occasionally happen.

Have a great day everyone.

Free books updated June 27, 2013

The first 3 headings are done for today.  The rest of the day is very busy.  If I get time, ones added will be in PA fiction.

As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books. 

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.") These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing. Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list. Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop. I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free. (This may be never!) Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.

Free books updated June 26, 2013

As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books. 

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.") These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing. Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list. Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop. I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free. (This may be never!) Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.





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Free books updated June 25, 2013

Did the main ones early, and the fiction late today.  

As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books. 

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.") These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing. Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

 ---------- The new books each day are added to the top of each list. Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop. I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free. (This may be never!) Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.

Free books updated June 24, 2013

Did the main ones early, and the fiction late today.  Download away.

As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books. 

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.") These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing. Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

 ---------- The new books each day are added to the top of each list. Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop. I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free. (This may be never!) Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.



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Free books updated June 23, 2013

So, as I said a few days ago, I started on the most popular sections, and as I found others added them too. A few fiction, may have time for more later.

 As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books. Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.") These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing. Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

 ---------- The new books each day are added to the top of each list. Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop. I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free. (This may be never!) Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.

Preparedness Fair #19

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Welcome to the 

PREPAREDNESS FAIR #19

I'm trying a new "widget" that allows readers to share links easily on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.  If you hover your mouse over the picture for each link entered, you'll see the little P, F, and T icon for those things.  It would be wonderful if you could both post entries to the Fair, and share Fair links on those networks.

If you haven't checked out the excellent posts on the previous Preparedness Fairs, please scroll down the right sidebar to "Preparedness Fair" under the Labels heading, or just click here.  Bloggers always appreciate readers showing support by leaving a comment when they check out posts too.

Please add your preparedness posts below--

And please TELL YOUR FRIENDS WHO ARE INTO PREPAREDNESS about the Fair.  We need lots of great posts--and we need as many as possible to benefit from them!   Could you please invite people to share here? 

FEATURED POST from last week.

What to put in a child's first sewing box  from Sewing With Kids.  Sewing is a very important preparedness skill to set yourself and your children up with!  This blog is full of great ideas for getting kids interested and teaching them the skill of sewing.  Please take a look! Link above, I can't get the photo to link!

Here's the Fair:
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An InLinkz Link-up

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The Preparedness Fair is a blog hop, a collection of posts from various people, where we'd love preparedness bloggers to share their posts about many aspects of being prepared!  A new Fair will begin every Saturday and will be open for 3 days.  The following week's Fair will include a Featured Post, which will be either the most viewed or a favourite that I choose. Featured bloggers can grab a Featured button to put on their blog, if they so desire.

Please take a moment to read through the guidelines.

What kinds of posts to enter....
--At the moment it's open to just about anything disaster-preparedness related--that YOU have written.  
--Pictures always help...they make posts more accessible, and more read!  The thumbnails on the "Fair" are fairly big, so the better quality the picture you choose, the better it will look once up.
--Please, no foul language or non-family-friendly images in the posts.  No stores or selling, please, or completely unrelated posts or spam.  Any of the these will have to be removed without notice.

Blog hop etiquette
1. Please grab the button below and add it to the exact post that you linked.  (That way people who read your post can find their way here to find other posts about similar topics.

HOW to add the button:
A. Copy the code that's inside the grab box under the image at the bottom of this post.  It's also on the sidebar at lower left.
B. Paste it into the html code of your blog post, so that the image shows up when it's posted. (For example, in Blogger, use the "HTML" option instead of the "Compose" option.) Write something like "This post shared at:" before the button.

You can add the button to your sidebar if you like also, but it still needs to be in the specific post that you enter as well. Many blog hop hosts say that posts that don't have a link or button added to the post itself can't be chosen as the Feature Post, or that it will be removed; I don't want to do that, but do ask that you choose to add the button.  
2.  Please don't enter posts with foul language or non-family-friendly images.  No stores or selling, no completely unrelated posts or spam, please, these will be removed.
3. Please link to the actual post, not the main blog.   I've set it to only accept specific posts.  Please let me know if this complicates things for you.
4. It's always appreciated if you visit some of the other entries, and people usually appreciate comments too.

Worried about anonymity?
I realize that a lot of people who are serious about preparing for disasters or hard times also are wary of sharing too much. Note that you don't have to enter your email address in the address field, you can just use a dash.  Or perhaps you don't have a blog for this reason so haven't written any posts. For the moment I'd suggest that you could open a blog that has little personal or identifying information. Please do share your wisdom, though--there are many of us who can benefit!

How to enter your post....
If you're a seasoned "blog hopper" you'll know this, but if you're new at it...
1. First put the Preparedness Fair button into your post. It's lower down in the blog sidebar at left and also way down at the very bottom of this post. (See Etiquette heading above, #1)
2. Click on the little blue "Add Your Link" button at the bottom of the post
3. Enter the URL (internet address) of the specific post, not the home page of your blog. This way the links will remain accurate indefinitely.
4. Where it says "Name" put the title you want for your entry (not your name!).
5. For email address, if you are concerned about anonymity, you can just put a dash. (If there's abuse I'll have to rethink it.) An email address means I can contact you if there's a problem with your entry.
6. Click 'Next Step."
7. Follow prompts for choosing a photo for a thumbnail. By clicking on the tabs at the top you can choose a photo from your blog post or from your computer. You can crop it yourself if it's from your blog post, or let the software crop it for you.
[If the photo is from your computer, you can't crop it yourself; the computer will crop for you. If that's a problem you might want to make the photo square on a photo edit program first.]
8. Come back to the original page to make sure your entry worked, and visit some of the other links.
9. If you make a mistake, you can click on the little red X by your entry to delete it, and do it again.

<div class="Preparedness-Fair-button" style="width: 150px; margin: 0 auto;"> <a href="http://preputilityvehicle.blogspot.ca/"> <img src="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d88/legomum/ddeea597-9a0c-488b-a89b-db4b0eaedb72_zps85d0c59f.jpg" alt="Prep-Utility-Vehicle" width="150" height="150" /> </a> </div> <!--end button code box-->

Free books updated June 21, 2013

Today's new books are entered.   As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free. 




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Natural Living Link-up
Simple Lives Thursday
Small Footprint Fridays
 

Free books updated June 20, 2013, and how it will go here for a couple of weeks...

Books for today are done.

NEWS for the next 2 weeks...
We have a graduation coming up and many, MANY: hours of preparation that accompany it, immediately followed by a 3-day music festival that my husband is organizing and running, and that my family is heavily involved in.  During this time, we will have 3 to 4 guests, with no spare rooms to put them in (children will be vacating theirs to sleep on floors.)  My parents, who have been back in the country for a couple of months, leave immediately after that.  So the next 10-14 days will be crazy mad here.

What I intend to do, in order to not leave everyone here completely in the lurch while still being present with my family which is MOST important, is to begin each morning on the favourite headings (as determined by the poll of readers, which you can see on the lower part of the right sidebar of this blog) and just continuing on with the headings in that order as I have time.  I hope this makes sense.



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As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free. 

Free books updated June 19, 2013

Actually the non-fiction was mostly done early, but due to a child's birthday, followed by computer problems, the fiction is not done.  There are several up, though, and I'll continue to try.

As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

----------
The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free. 

Free books updated June 18, 2013

Today's new books are entered.   As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free. 




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The Frugal Days, Sustainable Ways Wednesday Blog Hop

Free books updated June 17, 2013

Today's new books are entered.   As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

----------
The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free. 




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Shared at: 
Homestead Barn Hop

Free books updated June 16, 2013

Actually only general and gardening are complete; with Father's Day and visitors, I started on fiction but may not get it done.

As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free. 



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Shared at: 
Clever Chicks Blog Hop

Free books updated June 15, 2013, and don't forget the Preparedness Fair today too...

Today's Preparedness Fair #18 is open!  See some great preparedness posts there at the previous post or click here .

If you like downloading free books, please support us by sharing your posts on preparedness there.  Share what you've learned lately or anything helpful on the topic!

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Today's new books are entered.   As always, please double-check the price before you "Buy" your free books.

Free books are found under the tab headings above. (You'll have to go to the actual site if you're reading this on a "feed reader.")  These books have been found to be free in the USA as of this morning. Different countries may have differing pricing.  Please check prices before clicking "buy" to make sure they are still free.

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The new books each day are added to the top of each list.  Once you hit the books you saw yesterday, you can stop.  I will delete books as I have time to check they're no longer free.  (This may be never!)  Amazon makes it complicated and time-consuming for me to tell from Canada whether they're free in the US.
 
Some books that will end up at the bottom of the different lists are long-term free.