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Old 10-14-2003, 02:36 AM   #1
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There is a free (german) version of Wikipedia available in Mobipocket format (--> http://www.beam-bibliothek.de/ebook.php?id=144).

I wish we could also have the Wikipedia for iSilo!
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Old 10-14-2003, 07:52 AM   #2
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That's a nice link, but unfortunately download is not possible right now (looks like they had a bit of a traffic problem)

Checkmate, any way you can make it available for download?
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I wish we could also have the Wikipedia for iSilo!
Checkmate:

We did look into this (read this thread), but looks a bit daunting to pull off, not to mention that a user would have to have a very large ms or sd to even hold it.

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Old 10-14-2003, 08:56 AM   #4
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Well, size seems to be OK... the MobiPocket version of Wikipedia is between 40-50Mb. If I could only download it...
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Old 10-14-2003, 09:07 AM   #5
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Thanks for your replies,

gvtexas: why do you think it would get so big in iSilo format? The guys at beam-bibliothek.de managed to shrink it to about 40meg in Mobi-format. That's o.k.

There is also a TombRaider version of the full english wikipedia (and several other languages) which fits on a 128mb MS (--> http://members.chello.nl/epzachte/Wikipedia).

But I don't like having a different reader for each purpose. Up to now iSilo could cover almost everything except DRM protected books and a good encylopedia.

TadW: sorry, I can not provide a download. You'll have to wait until they recover ...
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Old 10-14-2003, 10:17 AM   #6
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gvtexas: why do you think it would get so big in iSilo format? The guys at beam-bibliothek.de managed to shrink it to about 40meg in Mobi-format. That's o.k.
I don't know what the German guys did, and whether they condensed anything or not (I suspect there's something going on we don't know, such as some super algorithem to shrink it, or ?). We were all just speculating that an iSilo version would probably be about the size of the TombRaider version, which would fit on a 128mb MS or SD. For those that can deal with this and don't depend on their MS/SD for active use, it's possible.

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The german version of the wikipedia is considerably smaller than the english one. When you compare the TomeRaider files it's about 15meg for german and the English Wikipedia comes in 6 chunks of that size.

Compared to this figures the german Mobi version is big (~40mb) and it does not contain pictures ?!
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The download is available again and I am downloading it right now. Will inform you about how it works..
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