Updating the WikiReader

Took delivery of OpenMoko's WikiReader from COTD. Would you believe these things used to sell for $100 in 2009? Got it for a fifth of the original price, excluding shipping, of course.

What's a WikiReader? It's basically an offline Wikipedia - a battery-powered, text-only mobile device with a monochrome touchscreen that allows you to read Wikipedia articles. New content is added every quarter.

The WikiReader is supposed to come with an 8GB microSD card, but the one from COTD is only 4GB. And the content is from 2010. Bah! No matter. Armed with utorrent, I headed over to http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ and downloaded to my heart's content - WikiTravel, WikiQuote, Wikitionary, Chinese Wikipedia, and Project Gutenberg. Dumped the wikis to a 16GB card, and ended up with my version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

To be more specific, the language packs are packaged as 7z archives, so you'll need 7-Zip to unpack them. Download the base image and any language packs that you want. On a clean microSD card, copy the Base Image files onto the root directory. Then copy the unzipped language packs onto the card - one folder per pack.