iiab VS wrolpi

Use a tool like Internet-in-a-box and keep a "local" version of tons of very useful stuff like Wikipedia and Maps.

Internet-in-a-box is a Free, Open source offline internet tool. Its a step up from having an offline wikipedia copy, it has a lot of Ebooks, and a offline version of Khan academedy youtube videos, and more etc

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IMO the best use case is https://internet-in-a-box.org/. You download a bunch of stuff like Wikipedia, videos, books, etc, and any device with WiFi can access them. Much better than relying on something like a laptop or old phone with all of these resources on them. Get a couple of Raspberry Pi's and some SD cards and you can clone them all and have lots of backups. They are small and use little power so you can hide them in places that can't easily be found.

this is awesome, but for those of us that don't feel like spending ~$1200... may I suggest internet in a box

Not a hard copy, but unless you’re worried about something destroying all electronics, you can make an offline library with Internet in a box.

Check out https://internet-in-a-box.org

The project website: https://wrolpi.org

can you make a local copy of it? offline wiki, https://github.com/lrnselfreliance/wrolpi, music/movies...etc

I thought about creating one of these in the past, but it didn’t fit my needs. I decided to start my own project, called WROLPi. It also uses a Raspbery pi as its base, but also has a Debian installer. I have RPi images available at https://wrolpi.org as well as a link to a demo (the demo needs an update, lots of new features since it’s creation).

The basic premise of WROLPi is creating your own off grid digital library: videos, web archives, PDFs, ebooks, etc. I have full text search for all of these. Offline maps as well via Open Street Map. Wi-Fi hotspot. Automatic downloads of videos (entire channels), RSS feeds, etc.

Look into Internet in a box or WROLpi as ways to serve the content. (A cookie to anyone who writes a howto on getting them both running on the same box; they have some overlap but serve different needs.)

Creator here, I have pre-built images for Raspberry Pi available at https://wrolpi.org if you are interested.

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also, check out wrolpi

https://wrolpi.org/ Been having a great time on my side-project WROLPi. Its preparedness-oriented software which allows you to create an offline library. Videos, web archives, maps, epub/pdf, etc. Really easy search, low power usage if you run on in a Raspberry Pi. Just put out the first Raspberry Pi image, which makes installation super simple. Hoping to get a Debian image soon.

Currently "videos" is pretty well flushed out. Still some work to do with web archives. Maps has been a huge headache simply because maps are so large. Got PDFs and EPUBs searchable recently.

An abbreviated list of the technologies I've used to built it: Python, ReactJS, Open Street Map, yt-dlp (videos), SingleFile (web archives).

I have created a project specifically for this. It is free, open-source software. Check it out https://wrolpi.org