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Several Wikipedias are available in TomeRaider 3 format - a commercial ebook reader - for offline browsing on a handheld (Pocket PC, Palm OS or EPOC) or a Microsoft Windows PC.
Each database contains all unabridged articles for one wikipedia. However all meta information (user pages, upload info, discussions, etc) and multimedia (video and sound) have been discarded to save memory (which comes at a premium on handhelds). Images are optional in some cases, but add greatly to the file size. For handhelds you will need a large memory card. The newest text-only TomeRaider file for the English Wikipedia measures roughly 3.3 GB.
As of summer of 2007 new TomeRaider3 files have been built for several wikipedias.