> "Hey, wait, literally everyone could have the entire library of Alexandria in their house for a couple hundred bucks per person. Like, all the knowledge ever. Maybe that should be considered the good default of things.

There are projects out there that lean in the direction of offline viewing of lots of content, for example, having an offline backup of Wikipedia, such as:

  - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page
  - http://xowa.org/ (HTTPS seems not to work though)

I just wish that the process of actually accessing the data was a little bit more straightforward: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html (given how many different files there are to choose from, you'll probably want to read a tutorial or two)

That said, while text is perfectly doable, things do tend to get more difficult if you also want images or videos, because those do take up a lot of space.