Thanks to Survivalblog mentioning Mama Liberty’s very kind review of the solar power ebook, I’ve actually sold enough books not only to pay for internet access through August, I can even get my chainsaw back from the shop!
There wasn’t anything actually wrong with the chainsaw, you understand, because my Husky has proven to be roughly the best chainsaw in the history of woodcutting. But it has seen two winters at the Secret Lair, and it needed some professional maintenance. The bar needed regrinding. The drive sprocket needed…an entirely new drive sprocket, and it needed a new choke lever because that’s the minimum your saw will need when a tree falls on it and rolls you down an embankment. Plus I got four chains sharpened. Perfectly normal for two seasons, nothing really wrong with the saw at all.
That ebook also paid for the Lair’s new floor insulation, I’ll have you know. If I could only convince everybody in Idaho to buy one, I could afford tarpaper and siding. Then I’d really have to go to work.
We thank you for your patronage! Haven’t actually heard much feedback, though. I hope readers aren’t disappointed.
A little book feedback as one (a “trapped” city dweller) purchaser.
While I think of myself as an intelligent person who can assimilate facts and ideas in order to put projects in motion successfully, I’ve generally stayed away from learning about solar energy due to a limited need for it CURRENTLY (though I fear it will quickly change) and the absolute flood of information — most of it geared to marketing the latest and greatest components — until recently.
I found your eBook to be a breath of fresh air in sharing your experiences of venturing into the subject. You explained many of the basics you either ferreted out of the information flood waters, friends and acquaintances who have real life — if not foraging based — experiences in developing systems and/or trail and error. In accurately descriptive words, you separated the wheat from the chaff in basic explanatory terms and cleared away a lot of the hype, promises and marketing present in more advanced works (which claimed to be “basic.”)
After reading your book, and experimenting with some basic components, I can now understand not only the knowledge I actually need, but can understand many of the sections about components — chargers, panel size and compatibility, battery requirements, etc. – to where I’m designing a system I have confidence in.
I found your book to be the best primer on the market and do thank you for it!
Oh, I’m so glad! This really “makes my day” in so many ways. 🙂
It’s my guess that No News Is Good News-if people didn’t like the book, you’d probably have heard about it. Complaints are more common than compliments.