Background
Today, there are still parts of the world where access to the global internet is limited. Rural parts of world from Alaska to Africa have bandwidth to that is unevenly distributed. Other parts of the world may be disconnected because of censorship or social strife.
In response, the Internet-in-a-Box project has produced open-source designs for self-contained hotspots based on RaspberryPi computers. Content modules can be installed by plugging in USB drives with self-contained websites. The Kiwix Project, already behind the "Offline Wikipedia" distribution effort, has been developing content modules and the ZIM compressed file format that facilitates this process. Project Gutenberg is a 48 year old organization whose mission is to make public domain works available for free on the internet. To date, over 60,000 works, mostly books, have been posted.
USB flash drives that can store 128GB are now available for only $20 - that's more than enough storage for all 60,000 books in Project Gutenberg. An offline version of Project Gutenberg had been developed by the Kiwix team, but still needed a last push to implement key usability features.
Our Work
Together with a team of computer-science seniors from Steven Institute of Technology, and building on our development work with Project Gutenberg, the Free Ebook Foundation undertook to improve the usabality and currency of the Kiwix-developed Gutenberg content module. The students added bookshelf functionality to the modules, and helped to streamline the process of module creation.
Links
- You can try out the self-contained Gutenberg Kiwix content module on the demo site.
- The python software that builds the Gutenberg ZIM_file is on Github and can be installed from PyPI.
- The Stevens project team page is on Github. The team consisted of Zion Fung, Vincent Lee, Alex Schlumpf, Sean Trinh and Hariharan Vijayachandran.
About the Free Ebook Foundation.
The Free Ebook Foundation (https://ebookfoundation.org)is a 501(c)3 New Jersey non-profit corporation. The Free Ebook Foundation envisions a world where ebooks will be funded, distributed and maintained for the benefit of all, by coordinating the efforts and resources of many.
Downloadable Content Modules
Content modules are organized by language, and are available as ZIM files from the Kiwix website.
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| gutenberg (Afrikaans) | af | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent 
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| gutenberg (ale) | ale | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (ang) | ang | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (العربية) | ar | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (arp) | arp | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (български) | bg | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (bgs) | bgs | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (brezhoneg) | br | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (बड़ो) | brx | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (català) | ca | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (ceb) | ceb | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (čeština) | cs | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (csb) | csb | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Cymraeg) | cy | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (dansk) | da | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Deutsch) (~2 GB) | de | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Ελληνικά) | el | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (English) (~60 GB) | en | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (enm) | enm | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (esperanto) | eo | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (español) | es | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (eesti) | et | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (فارسی) | fa | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (suomi) | fi | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (français) (~3 GB) | fr | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (furlan) | fur | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (fy) | fy | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Gaeilge) | ga | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Galego) | gl | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (gla) | gla | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (grc) | grc | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (עברית) | he | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (magyar) | hu | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (interlingua) | ia | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (ilo) | ilo | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (íslenska) | is | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (italiano) | it | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (iu) | iu | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (日本語) | ja | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (kld) | kld | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (한국어) | ko | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (la) | la | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (mi) | mi | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (mul) (~70 GB) | mul | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (myn) | myn | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (nah) | nah | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (nai) | nai | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (nap) | nap | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (nav) | nav | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Nederlands) (~ 1 GB) | nl | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Norwegian) | no | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (occitan) | oc | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (oji) | oji | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (polski) | pl | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (português) | pt | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (rmr) | rmr | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (română) | ro | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (русский) | ru | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (sa) | sa | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (slovenščina) | sl | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Српски) | sr | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (svenska) | sv | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (తెలుగు) | te | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (Tagalog) | tl | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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| gutenberg (中文) | zh | ↓ Download (md5) ↓ BitTorrent
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