Thread 64161667

Just finished this, it's a tiny free library, food bank and supply depot.

I'm way out inna woods of Maine but there are a decent number of people who have cabins and hunt out here. Everyone i know has run out of little shit like TP, ammo, food, basic items ect and ended up cutting their visit short or driving 50 miles to Jackman so i figured why not fix that? Doors not currently attached because i have to move it once the concrete base hardens.

It is double sided with shelves in back and front and will have books in front and in the back:
>Non perishable food items, travel shaving kits, toothpaste, little shit like that
>2-3 gallons gas
>Donation jar
>6 pack of beer, cheap whisky, some smokes and maybe some zyn, this is mostly so people who are already half wasted don't drunk drive to get more
>Above comes with a note that there is a camera pointed at it for minors
>Ammo!
>First aid kit
The #1 reason for a hunting trip cut short is running out of ammo hunting bird . I'm thinking a dozen or so .410, 20g, 12g and a box of .22.

So /k/, book and ammo suggestions?

Ammo should be appropriate for the game in the area. If the shotty ammo is meant for waterfowl then make sure it's lead free.

>book suggestions
boy scout handbook, field guides for the local plants and animals, books about local history, and picrel.

>>64161667 (OP)
You're a good guy, anon. And here I was thinking I was pro-social for putting baseball cards in my local free library.

>>64161848
All the shotgun ammo is going to be a mix of 4, 6 or 7 bird shot. It's all for grouse hunting since they are everywhere up here. The .22 is for that as well.

Books so far are:
>'Shelters shacks and shanties' by one of the BSA founders
>A basic home improvement manual
>All three volumes of 50 shades of Grey confiscated from the free library at the Jackman laundromat to protect the children.
>Kaczynski's manifesto
>'One good turn, the history of screws'
>A birding guide
>Quotations from Chairman Mao
>'Identifying wood' (yes really)
>A Maine atlas
>A bunch of service manuals for older ATVs and snow machines
>A few old cheap HP Lovecraft novels
>A Bible, the Nag Hammadi Scriptures and the Kebra Nagast
>Adrian Carton De Wiart's autobiography
>The life and times of Cotton Mather
Labor day weekend the Jackman historical society will be having a book sale, i'm going to pick up as many history, wildlife, hunting and first aid books that i can and bulk it out with a couple dozen Local legend/UFO/Bigfoot books.

I will be registering it as a free library/food bank since i can get a 'charitable use' tax deduction for 1/8th acre assigned to it cutting at least $5 from my property taxes. My goal is to have the most obscure and interesting free library on earth, not to mention that it has booze, beer, smokes, bullets and THC. If i included a deck of cards with the card for the Skowhegan massage parlor inside it then it would also technically have blackjack and hookers.

Besides the ammo which i should have covered and the first aid kit i can't think of much else, it will even have stuff like narcan and tampons. I work at a few food banks so there is alot of basic stuff i can get for free.

It will have at least three cameras and signs to ward off minors.

>>64161966
Thank you anon.

Books:
Death in the Tall Grass
Frankenstein
Lord of the Flies
The Albert Y'Nanza, Great Basin of the Nile
Man-Eaters of Tsavo
The Naked and the Dead
Moby-Dick
The Trial
Heart of Darkness
Robinson Crusoe
All is Quiet on the Western Front
Faust
Lonesome Dove
Complete works of Edgar Allan Poe
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Key of Solomon
50 Shades of Grey
An assortment of Touhou doujinshi
The Gun and its Development
All 5 volumes of The Machine Gun by Chinn
Sixguns by Keith
Riders of the Purple Sage
No Second Place Winner
Gilgamesh
Journey to the West

thumb drives containing PDFs of all the Paladin Press works

>>64161667 (OP)
Cook books, especially rustic or camping cookbooks and ghost story collections

>>64162018
Good idea, i was already going to include little ziplock bags taped to cans of salt pork filled with powdered milk and corn muffin mix for breading trout.

>>64162003
I already have or already have included some of those, list saved for the memorial day shopping spree!

Pic with the doors going on it, salvaged from a house that was getting rebuild:

>>64162059
>>64161667 (OP)
That blue drum is full of potatoes growing in lawn clippings and goat shit, in the spring i plan to put up a bulletin board and a covered picnic table plus masonry grill. I can get the drums free from the local water department, maybe i'll make a tiny park and ring it with potatoes and tomatoes. I can just throw rotten tomatoes and green potatoes from the Jackman food bank into them and in the fall it will be ringed with a tiny garden that folks can just grab or dig out.

>>64162003
....continued
AD&D handbooks (plus a baggie with dice)
The Prize by Yergin
The House of Saud by Holden
Grimm's Fairy Tales--an O. G. translation, not one sanitized for kids.
The Things They Carried
Dracula
Gray's Anatomy
Steal This Book
Tinker Tailer Solider Spy
Day of the Jackal
Old Man and the Sea

>>64162141
>AD&D handbooks (plus a baggie with dice)
>The Prize by Yergin
>The House of Saud by Holden
>Grimm's Fairy Tales--an O. G. translation, not one sanitized for kids.
>The Things They Carried
>Dracula
>Gray's Anatomy
>Steal This Book
>Tinker Tailer Solider Spy
>Day of the Jackal
>Old Man and the Sea

Added to yard sale shopping list except for one thing...

I can throw in my copy of Dracula but they are getting my 1st/2nd ED AD&D books from my cold dead hands. Then they find out why they are so cold and dead when i Lich Touch the fuckers and permanently freeze their asses. Even if i have multiple copies of them no one touches potential phylacteries on my watch.

>>64161667 (OP)
Box of gallon ziplocks. I don't know how applicable that is to people in cars and cabins, but I did a thru-hike once and running out of bags for trash or leftovers was always a sneaky little thing that could send you into town if you forgot about them.

>>64162141
>AD&D handbooks
You sure 5e or something like Microlite20 might not be a better idea?

>>64162335
>ziplocks
I have a bundle of two or three 8-10 inch zip locks lying around, that is a very good idea for convenience items. So is some good tape. Maybe include a few shall hose clamps.

Please keep in mind the available space for the two halves is 10 inches deep, 24 inches wide and 38 inches tall each. The peak has about a 24x24x24 inch area but that is going to be medical supplies and a camera. I'm looking to help out half a squad at most, not a platoon.

I don't want to go crazy with it at least at first, i just want it built and put it in place. My big issues at the moment are getting back my rotary drill so i can lag it to the concrete base.

>>64162409
OP here, if you ever mention a AD&D edition besides 1st or 2nd edition again then get out of my thread and don't ever show your face again to me or i will throw you into a 55 gallon drum filled it with Legos, old fishing line, 1D4s and fish hooks.

>>64162409
I was being deliberately vague to leave some interpretation up to OP, but IMHO there's two ways do to it. If the intent is to actually play I'd pick 3.5. If the intent is more for nostalgia reading material then originals or 2nd ed could be cool, though I I agree with OP's comments in >>64162200 that leaving old originals out where they could easily get swiped is not a good idea.

>>64162435
I'm just saying, newbies to tabletop would have plenty of fun with something like 5e and you probably wouldn't feel too bad if they swiped it or just used it for kindling, right?

>>64162436
I hate anything past 2ed, at least with the 2ed handbooks you had leeway to sculpt your character via kits without going full retard with later editions. Everything being reverse compatible in 1st/2ed was a major bonus, having Bards be a separate class was a very good thing 2ed did.

The later Eds trash, it isn't D&D it is a money making scheme. Fyi, i was probably playing a 1st ed Necromancer before you were born. Not saying that as a insult or a 'flex' but as a statement of fact.

So, let's get back on topic shall we?

>Most popular suggestion is 50 Shades of Grey
>It already has all three volumes of 50 shades

Come on guys, i'm not putting my La Blue Girl DVDs in there.

>>64162499
I'd say throw Hatchet and The Grapes of Wrath on there for kids and teens respectively.

>>64162455
Your statement isn't entirely wrong and burning it isn't a bad idea. However that isn't what this thread (or board) is about so let's leave it at 2ed D&D.

>>64162499
Introduce them to laserdisc.

>>64162541
They don't need introductions to expensive toys that they threw away 20 years ago.

>>64162506
>Hatchet
I think i can get multiple copies of that entire series for pennies, good suggestion. While i'm thinking about it i might be able to pick up a whole Tom Swift collection.

Thank you, those are good suggestions.

>>64162541
I'm on the fence about DVDs, let's not go crazy. DVDs available:

>'Where the Red Fern Grows', #1 and #2 as well as the books and movies. There is a second movie, it is worse than the first. The second on involves WW1 PTSD and puppies. >Complete collection of Little House on the Prairie
>Original Red Dawn
>Starship Troopers

>>64162624
Decisively unbased. Laserdisc and VHS are the true video formats.

>>64162675
It's a free physical book library, food stop and emergency supply depot, not a VHS library.

>>64161667 (OP)
All the teen boy classics. Captains Courageous, Treasure Island, Howard Pyle's Book of King Arthur/Robin Hood, Tanglewood Tales, etc.

>>64162719
Record yourself reading books on VHS. Now it's a physical book library for the visually challenged.

>>64161667 (OP)
>Cannery Row
>100 Years of Solitude
>As I Lay Dying
also I'll send a few dozen Conan the barbarian comics if u want

>>64162761
>also I'll send a few dozen Conan the barbarian comics if u want

Add in a 1st Ed Sonya vs Conan Marvel Comic and you have a deal!*

>>64162739
>Record yourself reading books on VHS. Now it's a physical book library for the visually challenged.

No Geordi, my programming will not allow me to do that.

>Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

An exotic adventure novel about an Irish street orphan in 19th century India. Part coming of age novel as Kim grows up under the wing of a British spymaster and a fatherly Afghan agent of the crown . Part a historical spy novel when a now 16 year old Kim goes north into High Asia with a Webley full of wogstoppers in his jacket to play the Great Game. Peak Kipling IMO

>The nature works of Jack London, The Call of the Wild and White Fang.

also The Cruise of the Snark about his sailing adventure across the pacific in 1907. Great sense of exploration and when the world was a big place.

>The Goshawk by T.H. White.

About White training a wild caught Goshawk and eventually flying her. Great man and nature story.

>Moby Dick

Merville sets the scene for adventure better than anyone.

>Beowulf (Heaney translation)

One of the best medieval poems and certainly one with the greatest sense of adventure. Heaney's translation is GOAT

>The Master of Ballantrae

I'm biased for personal reasons but it's my favorite R. L Stevenson novel.

>Vathek by Beckford

Tragically underrated gothic horror novel set in Arabia. It really captures the sense of strange experiences in foreign lands (It inspired Lovecraft). The Author was the most flamboyant homosexual of the entire 18th century (which is saying a lot) but it doesn't come across in writing except for that a single character gets an overlong introduction describing about his exceptional twink beauty, his soft lightly tanned skin, his delicate, effeminate manner and how he's so feminine he often get mistaken for his sister. Aside from that it's a flawless novel

>Flashman

Great series of 19th century historical comedy novels about the cowardly and caddish British officer Harry Flashman written in the style of a memoir. He forrest gumps most victorian events and you know the history its 100x more enjoyable.

Comfy adventure reading is what I would choose if I was in a cabin or hunting/fishing

>>64163170

Some poetry examples that aren't really "adventure" and that I dropped for post length but which still have the sense of exotic new experiences, far off lands and the call to adventure:


>Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Very evocative persian poetry about how the brevity of life and the beauty of experience. It really puts you in the headspace of far off Persia and the lines have the pure spice of the exotic.

Also without the retarded Sufi Ghazal stuff you see in Rumi or Mirza Ghalib i.e "imagine allah as a 17 year old boy and I'm metaphorically brushing away his curly hair and kissing him on the cheek" and when you are confused and look at the footnotes it says it's a theological rebuttal to Jabir ibn Zayd about the unitary nature of Allah.

>The Drunken Boat by A. Rimbaud.

Written from the POV of a ghost ship abandoned by her crew and drifting across the oceans. About the restlessness for adventure, homesickness and nostalgia

If I want a water of Europe, it is the black
Cold puddle where in the sweet-smelling twilight
A squatting child full of sadness releases
A boat as fragile as a May butterfly.


>Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas

A play that is a dream adventure that follows the dreams of people in a welsh village, drifting between them. It really captures the sense of being in a dream. it makes even the seemingly mundane dreams captivate and affect you on some seem level. The rural village setting and their lives reflected in dream also give the entire thing a comfy and whimsical feel.

11/10 book to curl up comfy in bed reading. Literary malted milk.

Just wanted to say thanks, not from me but in general because this is just real fucking handy and kind.

>>64163483
Thanks but it really isn't a huge effort and it is something that anyone who lives in a low crime rural area can do. I'm sure /k/ has a larger than average number of people who live inna woods or at least close to them, i see no reason why this shouldn't be a national or even global thing.

As long as you are reasonably sure it will not be vandalized or abused not only will it not cost much to do realistically you will actually run a net profit. The vast majority of people who use it will either replace anything they took and replace it or at least leave a donation. Furthermore many people will donate all sorts of things, most people only come up here for the summer or to hunt so when they clear out for the year they will donate everything they would normally throw out.

It will end up costing about $100 since i scavenged most of the material, i have one neighbor alone who i know for a fact will cover that within a single years time just from him running out of Zyn and not wanting to spend three hours going to town. Honestly there wouldn't be a problem with literally everyone doing it, it would make things very convenient for all involved.

Bumping for the evening crew.

>>64161667 (OP)
Can't wait for this shit to be dronerapebait in the SHTF, you fucking retards never learn

>>64169760
Yes anon, the NWO is going to drone all 200k tiny libraries and make sure it's done right by sending a UN rape squad to finish off the survivors any day now. littlefreelibrary.org is nothing more than a death list created by the Trilateral Commission, ahhhhhhhh save me John Birches ghost!!

Final bump, you guys really suck when it comes to basic decency and effort.

>>64169760
I hope that you walk down a staircase then step onto a lego block or a D4 at 3:30 AM while you are going to the bathroom.

>>64169814
>>64171961
>t.raped by government drone

>>64161987
Doing the God's work here.

How about including some local hunting legislation info? Seasons, limits, regilation, areas...?

>>64172539
The state publishes season hunting guides at the local gas stations, there is no reason i can't grab one and pin it up.

The little 3x2 concrete slab i poured should be hard enough to drill and mount it on tomorrow, i'll update with pics when i can.
>>64172514
>>64169760
You are a horrible person, either you are trolling for money or you do it for free. Either way you have earned the hatred of everyone in this thread besides you. I don't know what you intended but trust me, at some point a Indian male will be walking down a street in the USA and someone will hit him in the back of the head with a baseball bat. I want you to know that it happened because of you.

>>64162735
>tfw never read any of those as a teen

>>64172716
Tom swift?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift

I'm happy you live in a nice enough place where you can have a "street libtrary", OP

>>64172578
You ain't gonna do shit pussy, zog will rule over you and no gay library will stop them

>>64173330
Yes, the evil Jews are going to stop me from making a 2x5 foot free library and if you stop that then somehow this helps Russia win the war in Ukraine?

Do you people have any idea how stupid an counter productive your tactics are?

>>64173328
Hell yeah. Welcome to a white people zone. Enjoy your stay (but git out by sundown if you're jeet).

>>64172716
Wow you missed out. Captains Courageous is probably the key book to read when you're 15.

>>64161667 (OP)
Someone is going to take the ammo then use the gas to burn it to the ground within the year

>>64173648
No, that will not happen because it is 14 miles from the nearest paved road and it is in rural Maine.

Everyone who says thing like you just did will never live here or visit, for which i am thankful. If you did show up and acted like you just suggested we would simply shoot you dead.

>>64161987
>>64162003
>gnosticism
>50 shades of grey
>mao but no gaddafi green book or uncle ho
cringe

>>64162409
5e sucks. ADD/OSE is far superior. 5e is only good when you add hardcore rules and OSR aspects to it. See dungeoncraft, Seth skorkowski, questing beast, shadowdark, DCC dying earth, etc.
>but 5e gives you options!
You need a rule book to tell you what you can or can't do in an imagination based thinking game?

>>64161667 (OP)
If you put food in that it's going to end up ripped apart by bears.

>>64173695
I lived in Maine for a year
Saw all the tent cities and crack dens around Bangor, they will make their way to you