With digital storage space having increased in leaps & bounds, & even becoming cheap, downloading stuff from the Net is no longer a daunting task. This is why an offline reader like Kiwix comes handy these days.
Kiwix is a reader for Web content, and is to be used for offline reading. It’s a software especially intended to make Wikipedia available to people without using Internet. But this offline reader is not limited only to Wikipedia. It can be used for all HTML Content. Kiwix supports the ZIM format, a highly compressed open format with additional meta-data.
Kiwix is a free software, which means you can freely copy, modify & distribute it.
Those who may use this offline reader include education institutions and any other organizations who cannot afford to have a broadband Internet connection. But it can also be used for personal purposes to save bandwidth & time.
As we said before, to use this offine reader, you need to first download the software. It works on desktop systems, like Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, & also for Android-based devices. Once downloaded, users may extract it afterwards on their desktops. Once this is done, specifically for Wikipedia, it throws up options of downloading items from the Wikipedia-related libraries.
Kiwix provides a range of features which make the usage comfortable:
- Full text search engine
- Bookmarks & Notes
- HTTP server
- PDF/HTML export
- User interface in more than 100 languagesTabs navigation
- Integrated content manager and downloader
- Multi-language options
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