Lately Wikipedia introduced a tool to create formatted ebooks using content from one or more than one article. The book can be a simple PDF or in a epub format to read on popular tablets. This new feature will be of real help in many ways.
Let's say, you are traveling to some famous cities of other state/country. It will be a good idea to collect and create an epub formatted book of wikipedia articles for the cities you are going to visit during your tour. Once you are done with selection and book creation you can store it in laptop/tablet for offline read. Isn't it cool?
Create eBook In Wikipedia
- One needs to enable Book Creator functionality to start creating book. You can do this by clicking here or click Create a book link under the Print/export menu on left side of Wikipedia website.
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- Browse your choice of articles and click the Add this page to your book link. To add internal links to the book hover your mouse over that link you will be prompted to add that specific link's content in the book you are creating.
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- Once you are done with selecting pages click Show Book link. It will redirect you to a new page called Manage Your Book where you can edit your book's title/subtitle, create a new chapter and reorder/remove the articles from the book.
- Select the choice of eBook format and click Download button. That's it!
According to Wikipedia's Creative Commons license you are free to share these ebooks. Enjoy the offline Wikipedia read.