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WikiReader Pocket Wikipedia
Offers the entire English Wikipedia with 3 million topicsNo internet connection requiredFast, portable and informativeFun and easy to use touchscreen interfaceBattery life runs for months, not hours
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18 Reddit comments about WikiReader Pocket Wikipedia:

u/secretly_an_alpaca · 110 pointsr/gadgets

3 or so years ago I bought a Wikireader off amazon for sheer curiosity sake. It's a simple touch screen interface with backup of Wikipedia saved to it (sans pictures) so you can look stuff up without an internet connection. You can also use it to hold The Gutenburg Project, turning it essentially into a $20 e-reader. Also you can hack around with the software if you want, though I'm not aware of any really ambitious projects written onto it other than what it already does.

It seems kind of really useless, and for the most part it is for a lot of people, but it can be useful if you don't have a steady internet connection but still want to look things up on wikipedia, and the unlit screen reduces strain on my eyes when I'm about to go to sleep when I'm suddenly hit with grand curiosity about how rap music evolved or something.

u/real_tea · 7 pointsr/shutupandtakemymoney

Woops, forgot to mention amazon has them on sale for $20 (down from $99)

u/powercow · 5 pointsr/WTF

wikipedia pocket reader?

edit and think you can download updates.. despite amazon claim i dont think it is the entire wikipedia.. just the most looked at bits.

you can download updates or even have them mailed to you and download different languages and it is the complete thing, runs on double a batteries as they are available world wide and has a capacitive touch screen.. pretty cool.

u/pippx · 4 pointsr/Parenting

My husband and I are planning on giving our kids WikiReaders pretty early on. We're both big on promoting them to ask their own questions and find their own answers, and Wikipedia is a good resource for that. A WikiReader is nice because it will let them go off on research tangents, but in a limited and controlled space.

u/bookchaser · 4 pointsr/Libraries

As a child, I became keenly aware of the numerous factual errors in the expensive encyclopedia set my parents owned. I'd take Wikipedia over a commercial encyclopedia any day. In fact, I bought my daughter a WikiReader.

u/Dralun · 3 pointsr/PostCollapse

You could buy on of these wikireaders, as they're compact and pretty cheap.

u/CaffeinatedGuy · 3 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

This.

But CaffeinatedGuy, that's just a stupid little wikipedia reader. Who in their right mind would want that?

Anyone who wants to be ready for the Apocalypse (or similar large-scale catastrophe).

What is this geekery you ask? Well, with the addition of a small memory card, I can download the entirety of Wikipedia's knowledge, Wikiquotes, and several other websites, preformatted for viewing on a portable device that runs on, you guessed it, AA batteries.

When civilization collapses and you can't figure out how to extract iron from rock, you can't look it up online. I'll have it in my pocket.

When I'm rebuilding civilization with hard work, dedication, and leadership (assisted with details on famous generals and leaders), women will beg to bear the fruit of my loins, for I am the greatest leader they have ever known.

For these reasons, and many others, this little tiny hackable electronic device shall from this day forward be known as:

The manliest item on Amazon

u/CrazyTillItHurts · 3 pointsr/todayilearned

Well, I bought a wikireader. At the time, they were $10 with free shipping. It is certainly worth the $10 I spent. It doesn't have text-to-speech, but it works on a couple of triple-As and is readable in high lit areas

u/nlahnlah · 2 pointsr/Futurology

When this popped up on my front page I assumed it was from /r/shittykickstarters.

I could get behind an initiative that, eg, sent out $20 wikireaders to poor villages loaded up with useful information in local languages, but something like this is a ludicrous waste of resources. How the heck do you go from "we need a cost effective way to make sure poor people around the world have access to information!" and have your end goal include building freaking micro-satellite networks and mass distributing devices capable of communicating with them? And you think you can do that for 100K because you can put in "sponsored content"? Why would companies be interested in advertising to people so desperately poor they would benefit from a crappier one-way internet? How much cocaine was involved while brainstorming this?

For those who don't know what a wikireader is:
http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B002N5521W

u/boredextremely · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon


That was easy! Now you've made me miss Gamby! Shame on you! ;P

u/mnp · 1 pointr/codes

Easiest is just buy a reader: truly a hitchhikers guide in your pocket.

Here are the wikipedia dumps if you just want to download them to your machine.

I'm guessing you're not a programmer so here's a tool that will just go get pages, called wget. You can get it for most platforms. Look at the recursion options and limit the depth to a very small number like 3 or 4 maybe, or else you'll be retrieving the whole wiki.

u/R_B_Kazenzakis · 1 pointr/preppers

Books. Maps. CB radios and soon to be Ham radios. I have a Shortwave radio.

I have a buncha of old navy course books from when I was in.

I have about $500 in cash locked away.

I actually also own this.

u/zurkog · 1 pointr/DataHoarder

For a while, there was a device that ran about $25 that had all of the text (no images) of Wikipedia:

http://amazon.com/dp/B002N5521W/

Not quite the same, but it shows just how small the (compressed) text really is.

u/donvito · 1 pointr/bugout

Also a great addition: A stand alone wikipedia reader that runs on standard batteries.

Like this one: http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-PANREADER-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B002N5521W

They sometimes can be found for a few bucks on eBay.

u/KeepingTrack · 1 pointr/Survival

Yeah, that's an OK one. /r/Collapse is bigger though, about 20k members. 2 MUST HAVE resources are CD3WD & The AT Library. CD3WD contains some of the AT Library and resources like Appropedia (which you can't get a dump of otherwise in html, though the XML dump for is here: http://www.appropedia.org/approbackups/ ) as well as other resources. The Appropedia (and any other MediaWiki wiki) backup can be used with WikiTaxi for viewing offline.

Main CD3WD Site: http://www.cd3wd.com
Download it: (24GB) http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd/index.html
Browse it: http://cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/index.htm


http://www.wikitaxi.org/delphi/doku.php/products/wikitaxi/index

You just need to download 7zip, ungunzip (gz) the xml file, the bzip2 the file (like zipping or rar'ing) then import it into WikiTaxi with the Windows WikiTaxiImporter.exe GUI. It's cake. Some wikis, like Appropedia don't start out on the right page. For that wiki specifically search for "Category" in the search box up to be taken to the index. For others, search for main, index or category until you find the right one.

There's probably 5+ great wikis out there you can get dumps for, including wikipedia. WikiTaxi can handle more than one wiki too. So once you import Appropedia, WikiPedia, etc you can choose which one you'd like to access from WikiTaxi's startup page.

Also, for things like http://practicalaction.org/hydraulic-ram-pumps
where Appropedia has sourced some of it's material ... or great forums (though both practicalaction.org and forums and other websites won't love you for this) you can use HTTrack to download entire websites of any kind for offline viewing.

Make sure you See options/spider/spider: robots.txt and set it to -> 'never' so if they have a robots.txt that tells Google or something not to grab their pages that you do. :) Poor Netiquette? Maybe. Survival skill? Definitely.

There's an offline WikiPedia handheld viewer that runs off of AA batteries that I'm getting.

For jailbroken Ipods/Iphones: http://www.haukap.com/wiki2touch/

Cheapest w/ touch screen standalone that runs on AAA batteries:

http://www1.macys.com/shop/product/pandigital-panreader01-wikipedia-reader-portable?ID=466909&cm_mmc=Google_Feed_pla_pe-_-adtype-pla-_-target-19586772875-_-kw-&gclid=CPCwntj_3KwCFeZeTAodo23EAQ

Same unit, $100 from amazon.

http://thewikireader.com/store/

Wiktionary, Wikiquotes and Wikitravel are also offered. This means you can adapt any wiki to work with it. It uses microSD memory cards.

http://www.amazon.com/WikiReader-WR-01-Pocket-Wikipedia/dp/B002N5521W/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1322628107&sr=8-2

Personally, I have a Kindle Keyboard w/3G.

Then, my Android phone with Moon+ Reader, Adobe Reader and a 32GB card.

After that, my laptop and netbook, external BluRay reader & 2x external 500GB USB-powered hard drive with exact same contents (I've had so many drive failures it's ridiculous).

For Power: Crank charger for USB Devices, solar power for USB devices, solar chargers for batteries, battery adapter to USB (cellular emergency chargers). Some of my chargers do more than one.

So, all my videos, CD3WD, e-books and much, much, much more.