One of the features that I dearly loved on my Nokia 9300 was using Tomeraider to access a local copy of the 2004 Wikipedia (without pictures). The filesize was only 428 MB.

It was wonderful carrying a full set of encyclopedias in your pocket and not having to go online each time to look something up!

This miracle was achieved by Tomeraider's ability to compress large amounts of text into a form readable by their ebook reader.

I would expect now that something similar should be available for the N97.

I downloaded a static copy of Wikipedia 2008 to my desktop PC. It is 14.8 GB in size, but includes pictures and other BLOBs (binary large objects).

The uncompressed size would obviously exceed the capacity of the N97.

Does anyone know of any efforts to provide a similar portable resource for the N97?

Tomeraider seems to have abandoned the Symbian world in favor of Windows Mobile devices. Maybe if enough of us wrote to them they might consider developing in the Symbian world again?

The uncompressed size would obviously exceed the capacity of the N97.
Why would it? It has 32Gb of onboard storage... unless the 14.8Gb you quoted is actually its compressed size...

Yes, the 14.8 GB is Compressed with 7zip.

Uncompressed is on the order of 155 GB. :con?

I'm sorry I omitted this information...it's early and I've only had one cup of coffee and the dog (Irish wolfhound) is antsy to go for her morning walk! :rolleyes:

Oh, I also forgot to mention...the year-old "beta" version of Tomeraider 3 for Symbian gives a "Certificate Error" on the N97 and refuses to load.

Tomeraider does have a .tr3 file of Wikipedia which would fit on the N97, but alas all that is needed is a version of Tomeraider that will run on the platform.

The developer, Yadabyte has apparently gone incommunicado in not responding to Symbian user according to posts on various forums.

The closest thing you will get to is getting Mobipocket to install (using the "last known beta" that has semi-support for touch) and then getting this:

http://www.mobilereference.com/Encyclopedia/index.htm

be aware - it is extremely cut down when it comes to information - but still good reference tool

That's the thing...Mobireader for Java-based phones (alpha version per their website) won't load on the N97. You get a "Certificate Error".

I suspect that they only keyed it to S60 3rd Edition phones.

I re-signed my copy of Mobireader (which is the same one as the one for N95) and is working fine on my N97 with the exception of the colours being a little off on the cursor (its same colour as background). but still navigatable in the app and still works - all the text is working fine and you can scroll it up and down and between pages properly.

Re-signed?

Coming soon:

http://www.wikipock.com/

Coming soon:

http://www.wikipock.com/

hmm... they need to get their priorities right.. :) :)

Symbian and iphoney has a much larger userbase than Android! :)

Re-signed?

the beta floating around is a native Symbian one that is not signed (was released on their forums just before Amazon took control). This is not the Java version but a proper S60 binary..