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Blackout Library Signature with its router, rendering
Signature: device, router, Faraday sleeve, field guide, power supply, rendering

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Offline library device

Blackout Library Signature

$999

Signature is the library built to be relied on. The same complete library as One, on a solid-state drive with no memory card to corrupt, a separate router that covers the whole house, and an on-device assistant that answers questions...

  • 60-day returns, no questions.
  • In-stock orders ship within two business days from Minnesota.
  • No subscription. No account. Nothing depends on us.

Signature is the library built to be relied on. The same complete library as One, on a solid-state drive with no memory card to corrupt, a separate router that covers the whole house, and an on-device assistant that answers questions only from what is on the device and shows you the exact passage it used.

How it works

Plug it into a wall outlet, a car charger or a USB power bank. It creates its own Wi-Fi network. Join it from any phone, tablet or laptop, the same way you join home Wi-Fi, and the library's home page opens with one search box across everything on the device. There is no internet connection, no app to install, no account and no subscription, ever.

The home screen's Right now panel puts bleeding, CPR, water, shelter, hypothermia and poisoning one tap away. The filesystem is read-only, so pulling the plug mid-use does no harm.

The Library Assistant

Ask a question in plain words. The assistant searches the library, answers only from passages it found, and shows the source beside the answer so you can read it yourself. If the library does not contain an answer, it says so. It runs entirely on the device; nothing leaves your home.

What's on it

  • English Wikipedia, complete, with images: more than six million articles
  • Stack Exchange communities on DIY, electronics, outdoors, gardening, medicine and amateur radio
  • Street and topographic maps of North America, searchable by place name, no GPS data service required
  • U.S. preparedness and medical documents from FEMA, the CDC, USDA, NOAA and USGS, plus the Army survival and first-aid manuals
  • About 1,200 public-domain books, cleanly typeset
  • Emergency reference packs on post-disaster response, medicine, water, knots and food preparation
  • The Blackout field guides: first aid, water, food storage, communications and home security, written for this device
  • Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikivoyage and Wikiversity
  • Maps of Europe, with terrain shading
  • The full public-domain book set

In the box

  • Blackout Library Signature in an aluminum case with a 1 TB solid-state drive
  • Dual-band Wi-Fi 6 router for whole-house coverage, pre-configured; the library opens the moment a phone joins
  • Faraday sleeve that holds the device, router and power supply
  • Printed field guide, 48 pages
  • USB-C power supply and Ethernet cable
  • Serial number, source list and library deposit date

Specifications

  • Storage: 1 TB solid-state (NVMe)
  • Wi-Fi: dual-band, 40+ connected devices, whole-house range
  • Power: USB-C, about 8 W with the router; a 20,000 mAh power bank runs it for a day
  • Assembled in Minnesota

Guarantee

60-day returns, no questions. Three-year hardware warranty. Quarterly library updates available on a USB stick.

The medical and survival content on this device is reference material from published sources. It is not a substitute for professional medical care or emergency services. Call for help whenever you can.