Today, Wikimedia foundation has announced that Wikipedia users will now be able to export Wikipedia articles in EPUB and PDF format to read later. So users will be able to collect their favorite articles for further reading
EPUB file format is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). This file format is supported by most of the reader apps. This app is also supported by many mobile devices and is easy to transfer from device to device.
But PDF exportiing is also available, so most of the users will use PDF to export articles.
“EPUB files can be used very easily in an offline environment” said Tomasz Finc, Director of Mobile at the Wikimedia Foundation. “They can be opened and distributed just like normal files. Plus, there are readers for almost every platform.”
To export articles as PDF, see the Print/Export link in the left side bar and select the desirable options. To create the ebook of articles, click on Create a book. Once activated, you can add articles by browsiing wikipedia and click on the “Add this page to your book” to add the article pages in the ebook. After you have completed the book, you can export this book as PDF and EPUB. This process is quick and simple.
Now there is no need for the tools that offers offline wikipedia reading. You can create a book of your desired articles and keep with you for offline reading.
Wikipedia also offers mobile apps for all the popular mobile platforms to make Wikipedia easy to access from all kind of devices.
