TURNING A BLOG INTO AN E-BOOK

I am getting a little giddy, here.

A reader from Cardston, AB just sent me a link to a program that allows one to take the blog material from the blogosphere and make it into an e-book, using the RSS feed (may Aaron Schwartz rest in peace....).  I thought it would take months to grind thru this thing in order to put it into .pdf format so that it could be readable without having to have the internet..... 

The program is:  www.ebookglue.com

Why do I care about this??  Simply because I do not believe that the internet will be totally free anymore (maybe starting in the next couple of years) - and that information like this - even though politically neutral, will be hard to come by.  I speak of a system where there eventually will be no head (other than Christ) and a time when the existing systems (including the internet) will cease to exist either due to lack of a stable electric grid or simply due to widespread destruction where all the internet nodes are broken or gone.

I do not foresee a time when all electronic devices do not work (such as a pda or notebook), if you can supply a source of power for it and protect it from a potential emp, but the ability to connect to what was out there on the internet will be gone.  I will be in a state of mourning - because I think the greatest miracle of my lifetime is the internet.  Free knowledge, freely given and freely taken.  No control of information, no money required to obtain it.  The things that Aaron Schwartz was fighting for.  The reason I would never charge for the e-book.  What comes freely, should be shared freely.  I suppose I will have the same attitude with my food storage when it comes right down to it.  I only have it because God gave me the means and knowledge in order to obtain it, so why should I not share it freely with those who love what is right and love the truth.  IF someone attempted to take it by force, my attitude would change drastically.....  I learned this kind of thinking from my father who learned it from his mother and his father who learned it from her father (the Cedar City Patriarch in the early 1900's).  The joke was that he would always help everyone else out - but not so much his family.  Apparently, he had a very giving spirit about him.

Anyway - I hope to use this tool to get this blog online in the form of a free e-book.  My intent and dream is to see it on as many devices as can be had so that when things do begin to collapse, people are able to see ahead into the future and see what their next steps should be based on what they see happening around them and what the blog shows is next.  I expect that after the total economic collapse happens and then the earthquake and social collapse begin to happen, people will begin to look to the left and to the right hoping to have some peace and direction as to what is on their horizon.  This blog information will provide that.

This is on my list to obtain in the next couple of years is a vast store of electronic data of herbal medicines, maps, religious texts and other essential informations that are portable and available for the post-collapse scenario.  Those who are able to navigate what is coming with grace - and not at the mercy of others - will be those who become the leaders, even if they do not want to be.  Those who have ignored good counsel and who are suffering or constantly scrambling for survival will find themselves wanting at that time.  Thus, the last shall be first and the first shall be last..... and the meek and lowly will inherit the earth.  It is precisely this factor that will allow the righteous Lamanites to come forth and blossom as the rose at this juncture.  Where they have lived simply, they will shine.  Those of us, in our ease while residing in Babylon, will suffer tremendously where simple living does not come easily.