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doctorow · 05-10-2006, 12:53 PM

Well, it's feasible. For instance, there is a reader called TomeRaider for which you can get pre-compiled Wikipedia files. The full English edition 12/2004 was about 500MB compressed.

Check out this thread for more:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3129

I think MobiPocket has a fairly decent compression ratio as well. You might want to use one of their desktop applications to convert html to Mobipocket.

05-10-2006, 12:53 PM	#2
doctorow Guru Posts: 914 Karma: 3410461 Join Date: May 2004 Device: Kindle Touch	Well, it's feasible. For instance, there is a reader called TomeRaider for which you can get pre-compiled Wikipedia files. The full English edition 12/2004 was about 500MB compressed. Check out this thread for more: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3129 I think MobiPocket has a fairly decent compression ratio as well. You might want to use one of their desktop applications to convert html to Mobipocket.