What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.)

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What books have a lot of useful information should I get? (I mean like a Wikipedia thing with vast knowledge, but non-electronic.) - sh.itjust.works

For the purposes of this question, lets assume all future computers are gonna become locked down and you’d need corporate approval to run things… so with such a hypothetical dark future in mind: How to hoard as much as info as possible?

Engineering textbooks and presumably chemistry and medical textbooks. But you then have to be careful to select one that’s not massively confusing and a slog to read