How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler Kindle Edition

This is my favorite book, it appeals to my sense of humor perfectly and gives me plenty of fun facts to relay to my friends.

Really fun read. I love the imaginative scenarios the book places you in.

In simple , albeit not very detailed way , this book tells you how to recreate all the technology that we humans have had since our existence : fire , clay , metal work , fuel ,transportation , flight , medicine , music , art , computers . Easy , small , fun chapters with useful footnotes . A gem .

How to Invent Everything is a fun book with a unique premise -- you’re a time traveler who’s somehow gotten stranded in the past, and you’re unable to fix your (rented) time machine on your own...so you check out the manual from the time travel company (aka this book).Only it isn’t really a manual for the machine. Instead, since fixing the machine is so complicated, they’ve provided you with a manual for how to make past!Earth more like an Earth you’d want to live on, including instructions for how to do things like inventing standardized measurements, figuring out which animals will help you most, and building machines to do all sorts of things for you.It’s a fun book with all sorts of stuff I didn’t know, and I do think it’s useful for a general overview of human technology/civilization.But.There’s two major problems.First, the instructions aren’t always clear. If I really wanted to learn how to program a computer, for instance, this isn’t the book I’d go to. Even something simpler, like building a kiln or a mill. The basics are there, but not enough.On a similar note, the book tells you where and when you’d find certain plants/animals, but it doesn’t include enough to identify them. Even a simple description would been helpful; a picture would have been better.Generally, the book needed a LOT more images. I get that ebooks do have file transfer fees, but still. This needed to be an image-heavy book, and it wasn’t nearly image-heavy enough.Second, the premise gets a little...Tired.I get what the author was going for, but in some ways it would’ve been better if he hadn’t hammered it in so much.I did mostly enjoy the book, and it does have some useful information.But the problems were big enough to knock it down a star.

This should be in every prepper's library. Well written and laid out.

Great as a bathroom book, or for time traveling. Makes you think of human history and how far we've come.

Im about halfway through the book, and Im enjoying it a ton. Its very humorous and light-hearted, so reading it is pretty entertaining. The parts of history classes I always loved was getting to hear all of the stupid errors humans have made in our past (I never cared to hear about culture tbh), and this book covers that well.If you want to learn a lot of new things, then this is the book to get. Do keep in mind that if you do not have an engineering mind, then this book might not do you much good. To go through EVERY inventions building block components takes a heavy amount of knowledge surrounding the basics.

You’re in a broken down-time machine and can’t get back to your own time. You have to rebuild civilization. I get it. First joke was amusing. This book keeps trying to tell about inventions through the same tiring lens.