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New York Times: The World in Your Pocket
But there’s a bigger potential audience as well: the hundreds of millions of people around the world who don’t have computers, don’t have public Internet access and may not even have electricity. The company is thinking about how the world could open up for third-world villagers with a device like this.

WikiReader: a Digital Library of Alexandria, Offline

Wired: Is That The Wikipedia In Your Pocket, Or..?
Don’t scoff. A non-connected, monochrome, three-button device might not be, say, the mythical Apple Tablet in terms of hardware hotness (too many buttons for one thing), but $99 for a touch-screen Wikipedia that fits in your pocket and only needs a battery change every year is the perfect stocking-filler for the technophobe.

Design Boom: WikiReader
The wikireader from openmoko is a palm- sized electronic encyclopedia containing more than three million english wikipedia articles that can be accessed without an internet connection.