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Portable Wikipedia on the Go (gumroad.com)
1 point by rvangapalli on Aug 24, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


This is $749?

Wikipedia provide free downloads:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

And Kiwix is open source software that supports Wikipedia on most platforms for free:

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Ki...

"Kiwix is by far the largest offline distribution of Wikipedia to date. As an offline reader, Kiwix works with a library of contents that are zim files: you can pick & choose whichever Wikimedia project (Wikipedia in any language, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.), as well as TED Talks, PhET Interactive Maths & Physics simulations, Gutenberg Project, etc."

https://www.kiwix.org/en/


Useful product on the go when you are backpacking or traveling across the world or you live in a place where there's no internet.




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