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okalyddude · 11-09-2009, 06:36 AM

Hey I know I've asked this elsewhere, but thought it deserved a topic:

Is anyone familiar with .tar format?

Does anyone think they know a possible way to convert the wikipedia collection .tar format into something usable on the prs 600? (or other devices)

You can download an offline version of wikipedia here: http://schools-wikipedia.org/

It's not full, but should be pretty adequate for the type of thing you'd want to do a quick check of on your reader. (or the always fun random article) It's 5 gigabytes, which is easily possible to do on the 600 / 700 (or any device that allows large expansion sticks)

-Can calibre do anything with the format?

-If we loaded it as a single file, is it even conceivable that it'd open? (the dictionary opens as one file, but is not nearly so large)

-If we loaded it as multiple files (lots of them) and put them under a single 'collection' is there any way to keep them off the regular books list? If not, we'd be forced to put all books into collections, and use that exclusively (as the regular 'books' list would be clogged)

-If you did this, and did a 'book search' for the article you wanted, could it search through such a large collection? Could you even MAKE such a large collection?

I know to do anything fancy (like supplement the dictionary lookup option, triple click search wikipedia offline or something) we'd need a firmware hack (crossing my fingers people keep working on this) but I was hoping to figure out a way to get something working under the current format restrictions... maybe just a pipe dream, but sure seems like it could be possible.

11-09-2009, 06:36 AM	#1
okalyddude Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 602 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: E600	Wikipedia offline and .tar format Hey I know I've asked this elsewhere, but thought it deserved a topic: Is anyone familiar with .tar format? Does anyone think they know a possible way to convert the wikipedia collection .tar format into something usable on the prs 600? (or other devices) You can download an offline version of wikipedia here: http://schools-wikipedia.org/ It's not full, but should be pretty adequate for the type of thing you'd want to do a quick check of on your reader. (or the always fun random article) It's 5 gigabytes, which is easily possible to do on the 600 / 700 (or any device that allows large expansion sticks) -Can calibre do anything with the format? -If we loaded it as a single file, is it even conceivable that it'd open? (the dictionary opens as one file, but is not nearly so large) -If we loaded it as multiple files (lots of them) and put them under a single 'collection' is there any way to keep them off the regular books list? If not, we'd be forced to put all books into collections, and use that exclusively (as the regular 'books' list would be clogged) -If you did this, and did a 'book search' for the article you wanted, could it search through such a large collection? Could you even MAKE such a large collection? I know to do anything fancy (like supplement the dictionary lookup option, triple click search wikipedia offline or something) we'd need a firmware hack (crossing my fingers people keep working on this) but I was hoping to figure out a way to get something working under the current format restrictions... maybe just a pipe dream, but sure seems like it could be possible.