I’ve been in Mors’s office and in his “Book Factory” a few times. It was amazing each time. He always made me go home with a backpack full. I explained that I was flying but he insisted. Each time there were about 30 pounds of books. One time he gave me a cookie tin containing an unfinished manuscript. I was so privileged to meet him and to know him. I wander what happened to all of his work, and his books, and all of those loose leaf binders? Hopefully someone has them who can really use them. RIP, Mors. Gone but not forgotten.
Mr Kochanski, you are a great asset to the overall bushcraft /Survival genre. I too share your love of books and fear that people solely relying on the Internet for their knowledge, are cutting themselves short. Awesome videos and the breadth of your collection is amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
I thought that I was a compulsive book hoarder. I cannot hold a candle to Mors! For every book that I have, he probably has a thousand! A lot of knowledge on those shelves!
My deepest respect for you sir. You are a huge asset and wealth of knowledge. Thank you for all you have done for the Bushcraft , survival and other communities.
I have to thank you for this share that is world wide. The gift and thirst for knowledge is a blessing. 40+ years in your quest in understanding of what you do is very apparent here. Thank you. As you know there is a movement afloat know of learning Bushcraft and so on. But all that Bushcraft will not help you unless you take the time to learn as you have with formal knowledge. Thank you Mors for this little visit in your home and it will be shared to those that need to know! I extend my hand always to you! Ross
somehow I can't helping hoping that this treassure could be preserved. Like put into a study center or semi-open study center/library. Given to an organisation with love for knowledge and books, with people able to process the cheer mass. Books need caring and love to live. Just the number of books related to the topic of survival…! And all related topics to that…! A treasure for sure and will help keeping the name of Mors alive for many many years to come.
@@KaramatThank you for the reply. Sound good, hoping for the best! I would not like to have my own books and papers wasted when I pass away. Actually I much prefer to give away a book to charity - or anyone - than throwing it away. If books are in very poor or even unhealthy condition it is a different thing of course, but it may also be a question of how rare the books are. Storing paper long term has some requirements, at least if you want to keep the material used healthy and be able to read the pages many years later. A brief, unstructed, side note to anyone on the subject of written information passed to future generations: Having a first sorting per condition may be a good idea if you have an existing, historical, mass to deal with, but then again, be sure to also check for rare books while doing so. Loose papers in fair condition are simpler and much faster to process mechanically/industrially compared to books at least while not picking apart the spine of the book (thinking batch scanning/document scanning not using flat bed scanner, flat bed being used in very special cases). Be sure to research on what file format to scan to and what photo manipulation you should do at the photo session of the scanning. Obviously, PDF as such will not do. MAYBE some version of PDF /A, but check it up before starting and then check what the professionals use when having requirements of long term usage of the created files. I have put some thought earlier on the issue with the troubles of storing information digitally for a long time. Not storing really, but ensuring how the information is actually possible to retrieve and parse on a much later date. In general, microfilm do better (vendors promising around 500 years I seem to remember and in theory you only need a strong eye and a light source to read information) and books do far better even so. Information on stones do best in some ways, but is not very mobile and spacious is it. As for loose pages and depending on material used, such as paper, cardboard and ink, the text printed or written may very well be made invisible in 30 years, making any normal retrieval implausible (been there on loose papers, but not on books), or pages glued together. A lot of information being just on digital media is not very long lived if not having a rolling migration of media and conversion of format. I have seen digital documents being about 20-30 years only causing great problems when it comes to read them in the same way they were intended to and see the information in the same way now as then. At the same time we have paper records going 500 years back still being possible to view and read, the digital copies of these paper records being a recent mean to distribute digital copies and providing a digital restore/backup feature for some time. A lot of people used to think about these things back in the days, but I am not sure about the present situation.
King Solomon, said by many to be the wisest man ever, warned that "the making of many books has no end, and much study is a wearying of the flesh." His conclusion of the matter was this, "Fear God, obey His commandments, For this is man's all." Having been a lover and collector of books, I too have at long last come to the same conclusion. Life is a journey and often takes many years of living to come to such a simple and yet profound understanding.
There's nothing like the feel of a book. I've tried reading on my computer, iPad and Kindle...and can't get used to it. Quite a respectable working collection. Bravo.
When Mors says he would like an army to process the information he's collected what exactly would that entail? I would enlist gladly for the honor of doing it.
Thanks for the Video. Your Wife is a Strong Lady. I've always loved your words and your videos . Your a true seeker , and don't touch that bucket for at least 20 "Mors" years. Love and Respect to you and yours.
WOW! I just started reading your Bush Craft book.....Excellent! No Beard for the winter? Happy and healthy New Year my 100% polish brother! .....from Wisconsin.
If he remembers all those books he has read, he must be a genius. Imagine all that knowledge floating around in his head! It'd be so cool to meet Mors someday
I wish I knew the knowledge that you have forgotten over the years. I would be the Paul Bunyan of the 21st century. Great collection of books. You have red more books than I could ever read in five life times If I was lost in the bush I would want to have you in my group then I know I would be safe and get back. You do have a thirst for knowledge . Shane Aubuchon. (Chelsea ,Maine)
What an amazing collection. Mine is spartan in comparison and still is plenty to keep me busy for the time being. I'm glad you're taking the time to show us things that matter to you and made you who you are. Thank you.
Mors, you have your house well insulated and plenty of literature in doing so. That is a real life time of achievement in its self besides the numerous amount of students you have trained.
Actually I'm sure it would take several years for one person to scan all those books, but having a paper copy of all that knowledge would be priceless. It's funny how there is so much internet "knowledge" and people take that online digital data and reprint it out to paper copy for "safe keeping", but there is a big drive to flip it the other way and make the paper copy digital. An endless loop? lol
Mors, You can adopt me Fine Sir, I would be more than happy to continue your lifes work, when it comes to those books.I could work for a year in scanning all those books and making a viewable yet useable database and not have cracked a quarter of what you have in knowledge there.
in grade 7 in Calgary I took a course called Alberta wildlife at earnest morrow Jr high. it was a great course and I am wondering if you have the manuals for it?
THE humblest rich man. Rich in book wealth, rich in knowledge, rich in character & ethics. The elite aren't as "rich" as Mors!!!!!
Well said
Speechless. I didn't know a personal collection of books could be anywhere near as extensive.
It has been said that "the path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom", in this case I believe it to be true!
WOW. An amazing collection from an amazing man. Very nice of you to share your life with us Mors.
My wife said she thought I had a lot of books. 40 or so maybe. Mors, if your children don't want to carry on.... I am adoptable.
I live in Australia , and I never tire of watching and listening to Mors on any subject , and it seems he's well read on most .. thanks for sharing ..
I’ve been in Mors’s office and in his “Book Factory” a few times. It was amazing each time. He always made me go home with a backpack full. I explained that I was flying but he insisted. Each time there were about 30 pounds of books. One time he gave me a cookie tin containing an unfinished manuscript. I was so privileged to meet him and to know him. I wander what happened to all of his work, and his books, and all of those loose leaf binders? Hopefully someone has them who can really use them. RIP, Mors. Gone but not forgotten.
What an amazing man!
Thank you for inviting us in
Mr Kochanski, you are a great asset to the overall bushcraft /Survival genre. I too share your love of books and fear that people solely relying on the Internet for their knowledge, are cutting themselves short. Awesome videos and the breadth of your collection is amazing. Thanks for sharing this.
I thought that I was a compulsive book hoarder. I cannot hold a candle to Mors! For every book that I have, he probably has a thousand! A lot of knowledge on those shelves!
My deepest respect for you sir. You are a huge asset and wealth of knowledge. Thank you for all you have done for the Bushcraft , survival and other communities.
I could happily spend days browsing and reading through that book collection.
Decades.
Just throw some legs on that Da Vinci book and you've got a coffee table book for the ages.
I wonder if he finished sorting. RIP Mors. I hope your library is now complete where you rest.
Wow! Absolutely amazing. Hopefully one day someone would open a library with these books in his honor.
Absolutely overwhelming! Thank you, sir!
is there on a book on how to escape from a book avalanche?
I have to thank you for this share that is world wide. The gift and thirst for knowledge is a blessing. 40+ years in your quest in understanding of what you do is very apparent here. Thank you. As you know there is a movement afloat know of learning Bushcraft and so on. But all that Bushcraft will not help you unless you take the time to learn as you have with formal knowledge. Thank you Mors for this little visit in your home and it will be shared to those that need to know! I extend my hand always to you! Ross
Love, love, love, this video. Awesome library. Thank you for sharing.
Amazing! Thanks for giving us a glimpse into a life's work!
Absolutely speech less. Its inspiring to see such a great collection of books by a great man.
Damn, that collection is amazing, as a book lover I think I would sit down there, start reading and never get up again.
somehow I can't helping hoping that this treassure could be preserved. Like put into a study center or semi-open study center/library. Given to an organisation with love for knowledge and books, with people able to process the cheer mass. Books need caring and love to live. Just the number of books related to the topic of survival…! And all related topics to that…! A treasure for sure and will help keeping the name of Mors alive for many many years to come.
The family is looking to doing just that.
@@KaramatThank you for the reply. Sound good, hoping for the best!
I would not like to have my own books and papers wasted when I pass away. Actually I much prefer to give away a book to charity - or anyone - than throwing it away. If books are in very poor or even unhealthy condition it is a different thing of course, but it may also be a question of how rare the books are. Storing paper long term has some requirements, at least if you want to keep the material used healthy and be able to read the pages many years later.
A brief, unstructed, side note to anyone on the subject of written information passed to future generations:
Having a first sorting per condition may be a good idea if you have an existing, historical, mass to deal with, but then again, be sure to also check for rare books while doing so. Loose papers in fair condition are simpler and much faster to process mechanically/industrially compared to books at least while not picking apart the spine of the book (thinking batch scanning/document scanning not using flat bed scanner, flat bed being used in very special cases). Be sure to research on what file format to scan to and what photo manipulation you should do at the photo session of the scanning.
Obviously, PDF as such will not do. MAYBE some version of PDF /A, but check it up before starting and then check what the professionals use when having requirements of long term usage of the created files.
I have put some thought earlier on the issue with the troubles of storing information digitally for a long time. Not storing really, but ensuring how the information is actually possible to retrieve and parse on a much later date. In general, microfilm do better (vendors promising around 500 years I seem to remember and in theory you only need a strong eye and a light source to read information) and books do far better even so. Information on stones do best in some ways, but is not very mobile and spacious is it.
As for loose pages and depending on material used, such as paper, cardboard and ink, the text printed or written may very well be made invisible in 30 years, making any normal retrieval implausible (been there on loose papers, but not on books), or pages glued together.
A lot of information being just on digital media is not very long lived if not having a rolling migration of media and conversion of format. I have seen digital documents being about 20-30 years only causing great problems when it comes to read them in the same way they were intended to and see the information in the same way now as then. At the same time we have paper records going 500 years back still being possible to view and read, the digital copies of these paper records being a recent mean to distribute digital copies and providing a digital restore/backup feature for some time.
A lot of people used to think about these things back in the days, but I am not sure about the present situation.
WOW..I didn't think I would ever get to see Mors's collection.
Thank you very much
Wow! Amazing!
King Solomon, said by many to be the wisest man ever, warned that "the making of many books has no end, and much study is a wearying of the flesh." His conclusion of the matter was this, "Fear God, obey His commandments, For this is man's all."
Having been a lover and collector of books, I too have at long last come to the same conclusion. Life is a journey and often takes many years of living to come to such a simple and yet profound understanding.
There's nothing like the feel of a book. I've tried reading on my computer, iPad and Kindle...and can't get used to it. Quite a respectable working collection. Bravo.
When Mors says he would like an army to process the information he's collected what exactly would that entail? I would enlist gladly for the honor of doing it.
Great stuff Mors ! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the Video. Your Wife is a Strong Lady. I've always loved your words and your videos . Your a true seeker , and don't touch that bucket for at least 20 "Mors" years. Love and Respect to you and yours.
the amount of knowledge collected there is just mind blowing. Very cool video !
WOW!
I just started reading your Bush Craft book.....Excellent!
No Beard for the winter?
Happy and healthy New Year my 100% polish brother!
.....from Wisconsin.
This might be one of the smartest man walking the Earth today I am so happy to know or even have the chance to listen and have him as my idol
A gentleman and a scholar
If he remembers all those books he has read, he must be a genius. Imagine all that knowledge floating around in his head! It'd be so cool to meet Mors someday
amazing collection
I wish I knew the knowledge that you have forgotten over the years.
I would be the Paul Bunyan of the 21st century.
Great collection of books. You have red more books than I could ever read in five life times
If I was lost in the bush I would want to have you in my group then I know I would be safe and get back.
You do have a thirst for knowledge .
Shane Aubuchon. (Chelsea ,Maine)
Okay, that is staggering. And I felt busy with the 1' tall stack of books I have to work through in the next few weeks.
that's an insane collection, ... time to open a public library,
putting them in digital format is a great idea for sharing,
What an amazing collection. Mine is spartan in comparison and still is plenty to keep me busy for the time being. I'm glad you're taking the time to show us things that matter to you and made you who you are. Thank you.
Mr. Kochanski, I can't help adoring you.
Excellent!
Heck of a way to insulate a house. Impressive none the less.
Mors, you have your house well insulated and plenty of literature in doing so. That is a real life time of achievement in its self besides the numerous amount of students you have trained.
A gem in the rough
This amazes me. Good works
Book heaven!
Holy Smokes! That's a bunch!
Incredible
Thanks for the link - fascinating! I feel a little less of a hoarder now.
I truly hope all this info isn’t going to waste
A real Renaissance Man!
Wow! And I thought I loved books.
I see a Kill Bill VHS. Mors, you're a fascinating man.
Amazing
I'd be in heaven!
Will there be The Mors Kochanski public library?
Would love to have a digital collection to rival that mass of books!
Wow.
I wonder if he had any books about surviving a collapsed bookshelf.
Sheesh I think I could get with mors and be there for a month scanning all those books into PDF form.
Actually I'm sure it would take several years for one person to scan all those books, but having a paper copy of all that knowledge would be priceless. It's funny how there is so much internet "knowledge" and people take that online digital data and reprint it out to paper copy for "safe keeping", but there is a big drive to flip it the other way and make the paper copy digital. An endless loop? lol
The video wasn't over when I said several years for one person to scan all those books, looks more like several hundred years now :D
Only 13 minutes in and I'm in AWE of his collection. I pray that it gets preserved or made into a library after he is gone.
My final thought: HEAD BLOWN!!!!! thanks Galen for sharing!
Mors, You can adopt me Fine Sir, I would be more than happy to continue your lifes work, when it comes to those books.I could work for a year in scanning all those books and making a viewable yet useable database and not have cracked a quarter of what you have in knowledge there.
Although I love the printing press just think - all of those words would fit on less than 1 DVD disc.
You definitely could not fit the contents of all these books on one DVD, a standard DVD is less than 5GB.
in grade 7 in Calgary I took a course called Alberta wildlife at earnest morrow Jr high. it was a great course and I am wondering if you have the manuals for it?
Can I please, please, please process your collected knowledge? It would be an honor and a pleasure!
Impressive. I wish all the best in 2014.
wow
Have you read every book...? :)
Somebody with more books than me. :) How do you keep the critters and mice out of some of those?
It would take a hundred of your lifetimes to read all those books!! Why??
Somebody get him a Kindle!
What happened to all that knowledge after his death?
so books
Do you have any books written by Murray Rothbard ?
If you don't you should make room for a few.
Phew!!!!!! Your wife must be an awfully tolerant woman!!! LOL!!!!!!
Exactly what I was thinking lol
This nothing compared to is record collection!