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In Ghana, where schools have access to computers but not internet, a project downloaded Kiwix and the full English Wikipedia and Wiktionary on a portable hard drive and transferred it to school computer labs. Defector NGOs use Kiwix-desktop to smuggle knowledge of the outside world to North Korea, where internet is almost non-existent with extreme amounts of censorship. The zim files can be downloaded and taken to places which are cut off from internet access, and spread knowledge there.

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Check the features page for more details.Īs much as I like offline reading due to internet being a distraction, other use cases are even better. Getting the Wikipedia knowledge at one place, while clicking the links referring to the respective pages inside the same offline directory makes it very convenient to use. The features make the app very usable for viewing the content offline. Screenshot of Kiwix app in PureOS, with offline Wikipedia. The project also has a nice wiki documentation. For Desktop, just download a zim file from the Kiwix library and open it in the Kiwix app.

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In the Android app, you can download content by going to the download section and clicking on the website you would like. The app is available for download for all the major operating systems– Android, GNU/Linux, iOS, Windows, macOS, Raspberry Pi.

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It can also export files into HTML and PDF formats. Further, the zim files make it easy to index, search, and selectively decompress. The files are compressed, which saves disk space and internet data while downloading. zim which are readable by the Kiwix reader. The files are downloaded in the free format. You can download Wikivoyage and have travel guides for offline reading, as you might not have good internet access on the go. RationalWiki (my favorite), Ted Talks, Khan Academy, ArchWiki, etc. There are many projects which you can download for offline reading, like AskUbuntu, sections of Wikipedia– like, Chemistry, History, Sociology, etc. It is a reader for offline reading knowledge sources like Wikipedia or Project Gutenberg.

Notes text input field for the selected bookmark.Recently I came to know about freedom-respecting Kiwix app and I found it cool.

Just click on an item to be sent to the corresponding document. Each time you mark a document, it is added to that list. Once you close Kiwix, all your sets are closed you will need to re-import them next time. Switch from here between your opened (default one and those you imported) sets.

Unmark selected: Removes the selected (on the bookmark list) bookmark from the current set.

Mark this page: Add the current page (document) to the current bookmark set.

Reset Bookmark Set: Deletes all the bookmarks from the current should it be the Default Set or another.

Import set: Select a previously saved (or retrieved) Kiwix bookmark file to import a complete set, including notes.

Share this file for backup or for someone else to import. Each time you add or delete a bookmark to the set, the file is updated.

Create new set: Create an empty set in a new file on your computer.It will open a panel on the side of the screen. The bookmarking feature is reachable by clicking on the Bookmarks button.

Because you can easily import or export (a set is saved as a regular file on your computer) a complete set of bookmarks (using the Import or Create buttons on the bookmarks side-bar), it is easy to share a list of documents with your students for example. A set is a list (or group) of bookmarks that live together. You can mark some pages (documents) to access them directly afterwards.īookmarks are organised in sets.

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