One of my favorite survival and preparedness YouTube channels is Modern Refugee (You can find our recommendation of his channel here.) If you haven’t yet subscribed to the channel, please go here and do so! I recently stumbled across his review of Selco and Toby’s new book, SHTF Survival Boot Camp, and wanted to share it with you here, in case you’re on the fence about grabbing your physical copy.
With times being as tense as they are right now, who knows if we’ll be able to hop on the internet or read on our devices when we need real information the most? This book has been very well-reviewed and even called “an encyclopedia of preparedness” by one reader. There are some books you simply need a hard copy of and this is one of them.
The book review of SHTF Survival Boot Camp
The aspects that stood out most to the reviewer was the mental preparedness advice, the sanitation advice, and the information about medical treatment. Here’s what he had to say about the book.
SHTF Survival Boot Camp is the textbook for Selco’s course by the same name.
Due to the heightened tension of current events, Selco is offering his courses at half price to help you get prepared for the possibility of worst-case scenarios. You can get each course right now for only $99.
- SHTF Survival Boot Camp course
- One Year in Hell course
As the political situation in the United States heats up, now is the time to learn important skills that you won’t want to face the SHTF without.
Amazon lost my business when they decided to go into the business of censorship. Is there a way to get the book without giving patronage to that organization?
Unfortunately, they are the only game in town for self-published authors right now. (At least for authors who don’t have thousands to invest in buying hard copies and shipping them out.)
I am working diligently to access another platform that does “print on demand.” The prices may be higher but I think people will be willing to pay a few dollars more to vote with their money. This may be a few months away, but I’m determined to make it happen.
I, for one, would be willing to pay something extra. Thank you for your efforts!
Draft2Digital does ebooks at least – and I think Opyrus is making a comeback. They used to be FastPencil I think. Draft2Digital is kind of nice because they let you pick what markets you publish to, so if you don’t want to be on an Apple platform for example you don’t have to be.
(Not affiliated with them but I’d like an alternative to Amazon too. All my books are with them right now.)
I would be willing to pay a few dollars more as well. In process of removing all my business from Amazon.
This book becomes hard to locate. Referring to myself, I order this book in late December. The USPS sends it from NC to SC to DC to me in VA where I await its arrival. May be wise to pay for expedited shipping.
Grappling with Amazon
Sometimes Amazon is maddening to deal with. When I ordered the Kindle version of Selco and Toby’s book at $9.95 late last year, Amazon’s poorly vetted software forced an update onto my Windows 7 machine and broke their code that allowed me to read Kindle ebooks via their “free” software from my machine. While I was told to wait until they could fix their messed up “Kindle for PC” freebie download … in the meantime they advised me to go to
read.amazon.com
which pulls up a screen to log in to Amazon … which lets you read any of your Kindle ebooks directly online that way. That does work … but it’s been two months now and they still haven’t provided a fix for their broken software. So…
here’s one way to get an in-hand copy of that book without paying Amazon their $24.95 asking price for the 404-page paperback. You can install some freebie screenshot software that 1) lets you define how much of any page’s rectangular view you want to capture in each screenshot (so you control where the margins should be while preserving page numbers, etc), and 2) make sure that the screenshot software you choose has the ability to sequentially number each capture so you can later either read those captured pages in order OR print them out so you’ll have a physical copy on hand.
The freebie screenshot software I’ve been using for years is an older 4.4 version of Gadwin PrintScreen. Once I found that it does what I wanted … I stopped looking for any others — which are most likely out there in the wilds.
Whether there’s a way to use an ebook manager / converter like calibre to get a more compact digital version I don’t know yet — but what I’ve described above is at least one way to get a print version from that $9.95 Kindle ebook. The screen capture method can also provide a handy digital copy to store on a flash drive for when or if that becomes useful. You can transport hundreds (if not thousands) of books in digital form on one properly sized flash drive in case you should ever need to bug out without being able to take your bookstore-sized library of printed books with you — especially if that bug-out is for I.N.C.H. circumstances (meaning “I’m Never Coming Home”).
–Lewis
@Lewis,
Good on ya for going through all that.
Reading about what you had to go through, dang near made my eyes bleed!
samizdat.
It absolutely looks like a great book and I definitely prefer to hold a book . (Old school maybe) . I’m not a massive fan of Amazon either . I brought a few of your books last year and it took months to receive them through Amazon and I had other items privately sent from America to Australia that got here in a few weeks ordered at the same time. With a few Amazon items being lost along the way. For me it’s $53.00 to Australia something I may look at later on again. Reminds me just how far away we are here.
Actually the first book that came to mind when I saw the title was the bible.
Can’t wait to read it-lots of great reviews
Bought it for myself during the special holiday sale on this site
It’s the latest edition with daisy’s foreword dated sept10 2020