![]() My quick searching has found a format description, but no tools to unpack them. ![]() I assumed they were a zip file with some specific file contents (similar to an ePub), but that is not the case. Without being able to unpack the file and look at what is in each part, I can't think of a way to check. ![]() ![]() If you have multiple ZIM files on your Kobo, it selects the Wikipedia it searches in that menu randomly on boot, and I have no idea how to select which Wikipedia it picks on that menu when reading other books. In addition, the thing I mentioned before about the "Wikipedia" option being present in the menu when reading other books. But the same thing didn't work for loading "Zztop" first before loading "Zoo". So I really have no idea what's going on with the Zoo article, just that if you load the "Fire" or "Zoology" article first after a boot (Only ones I have tried, there's probably way more that work), then you can load the Zoo article. Huh, that's really odd, I tried testing it out some more after what you said and here's my results:ġ) Fresh boot, Loaded Wikipedia 0.8 (with pictures), tried to load the "Zoo" article immediately = Always crashes the KoboĢ) Fresh boot, Loaded Wikipedia 0.8 (with pictures), loaded another article first (I tested "Fire" and "Zoology" articles) which loaded properly, then tried to load the "Zoo" article = Loads Zoo article properlyģ) Fresh boot, Loaded Wikipedia 0.8 (with pictures), loaded the "Zztop" article which loaded properly, then tried to load the "Zoo" article = Always crashes Kobo againĤ) Fresh boot, Loaded Wikipedia 0.8 (with pictures), loaded the "Fire" article, then loaded the "Zztop" article, then loaded "Zoo" article = Loads Zoo article properly (I had this freeze my Kobo on me when I was first testing it out with searching for the 'Zoo' article since it was later in the file, but it worked properly after a reboot)įinally, I would like to thank the hard-working devs at Kobo and Kiwix for making this possible! You will then see a properly ebook formatted version of the article on your Kobo! Step 3: In the "Wikipedia" search menu that pops up, you can now search for article titles in the Wikipedia file that you loaded, click on one of the suggestions that shows up as you search to get to that article. The menu that pops up should have the "Wikipedia" option for you to click. Step 2: In order to access the other articles, tap the centre of the screen to open up the Reading Menu, then click the button in the bottom right hand corner with the 3 horizontal lines. You'll notice that if you just turn the page, you'll just scroll through the front page of the Wikipedia. You should then see the home/front page of the wikipedia that you have loaded. Step 1: Open one of the Wikipedia's that is now in your library as you normally would open an ebook. Step 3: Put the microSD card in your Kobo and wait for the Kobo to scan the microSD card for files to add to the library. This is what my microSD card looked like: Step 2: Put the files on your microSD card. Step 1b: If the ZIM file you downloaded is bigger than 4GB, you'll have to split the file to put it on your FAT32 formatted microSD card (FAT32 is the filesystem format the unmodified Kobo will want and recognize by default) - See "My ZIM file is too big, what should I do?" here: Step 1: Download a Non-indexed ZIM of the Wikipedia that you want from **EDIT: Other people have confirmed that it works on the other Kobo devices on firmware nowĪlbum of the pictures used in the guide: *NOTE: I have only tried this on my Kobo Aura on firmware, but I am pretty sure that it would work on any Kobo e-reader on that firmware, it would be nice if people with the other Kobos would be able to confirm that it works too! I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere yet, so here's the guide! However, as I was messing around, I noticed that the Kobo detected the ZIM wikipedia files I loaded on my SD card and added it to the library and I could load the wikipedia articles too. Hey everyone, so I have been trying out a few guides to load wikipedia offline on the Kobo Aura by using kiwix-serve, but I never got it to work. ***Note: this guide is out of date, it does not work on any firmware aside from firmware from 2016.***
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