Thread: Even more specialized than ereaders : the wikireader
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Old 10-13-2009, 10:50 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by sebastienbillard View Post
Just discovered this http://thewikireader.com/index.html

(Not interesting at all, though I wonder if Wikipedia could be converted in some way in an ebook ?)
It's been done. There is a reduced version of Wikipedia in TomeRaider 3 format, and an effort in progre3ss to convert it for Plucker, an offline HTML reader for Palm OS. (The chap behind it is on MR as "Hacker", and pops up occasionally in the forums.)

The major issue is the sheer volume of data. You can more or less get the text into a (huge) ebook file, but don't even think about the graphics...
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