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Old 04-10-2009, 05:59 PM   #1
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Wikipedia Ebook Project
There is a 3.4GB offline version of Wikipedia. I have a copy, and I'm going to try to turn it into an ebook.

I've been looking at it today. The text by itself is only 400MB, and I should be able to cut that in half (or more) by removing most of the formatting.

The images take up the other 3GB. I expect to be able to reduce this to 1GB by abandoning the highest resolution images and by eliminating the duplicate images. I might get it even further.


You can download it as a torrent here. You will need a bittorrent client.
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