Ruminations:
So, I was going through my library shoring things up. I am a bibliophile and was in a discussion that got me thinking about the effects of the internet going "poof", especially on the younger generations.
When I was young, I lived rurally and didn't have any playmates around, so I read...A LOT! My parents had books everywhere floor to ceiling. The chemistry texts from college didn't interest me so much but, I read everything cover to cover including the bible, dictionary and encyclopedia set.
With the advent of the internet, younger generations don't turn to the older ones for fix-it advice, or read anything with a physical page, even in school. It really is a different way of garnering information than when I grew up.
I have been doing this prepping thing for decades and am beyond the "just surviving" preps. I am looking now to educating the next generation.
When the internet goes bye-bye, there will be a lot of lost kids out there. One of the books or rather set of books I think will be very handy will be the Encyclopedia. Maybe not a modern set as history has been re-written, or two sets, one modern and one older so that a comparison and discussion can be had.