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Offline library system
Blackout Library Vault
$2,999
Vault is the library for a place that has to keep working: a second home, a shelter, a boat, a ranch. A full computer with three terabytes of storage in a Pelican case, its own battery, a router that covers...
- Built to order. We confirm your build date within two business days; current lead time is about three weeks.
- Lifetime hardware warranty. Includes a 30-minute setup call.
- No subscription. No account. Nothing depends on us.
Vault is the library for a place that has to keep working: a second home, a shelter, a boat, a ranch. A full computer with three terabytes of storage in a Pelican case, its own battery, a router that covers a compound, and the larger Library Assistant. Built to order, numbered, and covered for life.
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.
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
- Wikipedia in Spanish, French, German and Chinese, with images
- Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikivoyage and Wikiversity
- World maps with terrain shading
- Every Stack Exchange community
- Open-access medical research from PubMed Central
- The complete public-domain book collection, more than 60,000 titles
The Library Assistant
The larger model on Vault answers longer questions and reads more of the library at once. As on Signature, it answers only from passages it found on the device and shows you the source, and it says so when the library has no answer.
In the case
- Library computer: 8-core processor, 32 GB memory, 3 TB solid-state storage
- Wi-Fi 6 router with four external antennas
- Pelican 1450 case with custom-cut foam and an engraved serial plate
- Laptop-size Faraday bag
- Bound field guide and system manual
- LiFePO4 power station, 245 Wh, ships separately; runs the system for eight hours and recharges from a wall outlet, a vehicle or a solar panel
Options
The 4 TB configuration adds a terabyte of storage and a 100 W folding solar panel.
Built to order
Each Vault is assembled, imaged and tested by hand. We confirm your build date within two business days of your order; current lead time is about three weeks. Every Vault includes a 30-minute setup call.
Guarantee
Lifetime 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.