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06-06-2018, 12:00 PM | #78 |
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It’s been a while since anyone’s posted to this thread, so I was wondering if there’s been any new developments.
I have the original Kobo Aura, the one that supports up to a 32GB MicroSD. Following the directions in the OP, I downloaded the latest Wikipedia ZIM that would fit on my card, the no pic version, ~20GB. I also grabbed the latest Wiktionary and Wikivoyage ZIMs while I was at it. I chopped up the Wiki ZIM into 2GB pieces as recommended in the OP’s links, and transferred all the files onto the MicroSD. I installed it in my Aura, and booted it up. Kobo complained that the MicroSD wasn’t FAT32—even though it was—but then a moment later imported the content anyway. I scrolled through My Books and saw all three ZIMs, Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikivoyage, and I could open all three and read the opening pages. Search does not work, however. Either searching while within that book, or from within another unrelated book. The only option is to connect to the internet and search Wiki online, it doesn’t recognize the offline ZIM. I have the latest firmware for the Kobo Aura. Do I have to downgrade to an earlier version to get this to work? What is the latest firmware version I can install to access and search the ZIMs from within Kobo’s built-in Wikipedia link? |
06-07-2018, 12:46 AM | #79 |
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Some recent firmware broke zim, search stopped working. There use to be a search wikipedia menu item, but they removed it.
And even when search worked, links between files in a split zim didn't work. |
06-09-2018, 01:19 PM | #80 |
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Thanks for the info. Do you know which is the last firmware version that supported ZIM?
Would it be possible for me to downgrade my Kobo to that version so I could get ZIM support? I don’t mind if internal links don’t work, so long as I can access Wiki through the My Books menu and search there that would be fine. |
06-09-2018, 03:23 PM | #81 | |
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Because the newer firmwares still open and render ZIM files, I wonder if it's just that the menu option to search a ZIM file was removed and if it and the interface could be restored by a patch. The release notes for 4.1 specifically said something about cleaning up menu items. |
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06-10-2018, 04:18 AM | #82 | |
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01-02-2019, 02:41 PM | #83 |
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On the kobo touch 2.0
Is it possible to load all the offline wikipedia (no videos, no pictures) on a kobo touch 2.0?
I mean to replace the micro SD with a Sandisk class 4 of 32 GB. Do you think it will give problems to the device? thanks |
01-03-2019, 07:36 AM | #84 |
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Full wikipedia with no images is under 20G I think, and several sites update their images of it once or twice a year. (The formats I've tried are zim and kiwi; there are readers for android.)
The filesystem on the kobo only supports 2G files; however, there are multiple versions of the full text of wikipedia that are pre-split into 2G chunks. Having said that, none of those existing formats is currently readable on the kobo. zim use to be readable on kobo, but it was buggy, and was broken the rest of the way and then the menu entries needed for it removed completely over the course of several firmware versions. (This is detailed in this thread I think.) It is also possible to hack the kobo and install an internal webserver that serves one of the above formats and then use the internal web browser to view it. Details for that are also available here. Unfortunately, that method doesn't appeal to me for multiple reasons. |
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Any chance this works on a Kobo Aura H2O2 (no expandable memory)?
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06-07-2020, 01:50 AM | #86 |
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Is it still working in July, 2020 FW 6.22.x Kobo Aura H20
Hi, has anyone tried this offline Wikipedia lately,if its still working or not?
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