TonttuLibrary 📚

the offline library

A self-curated archive of books, articles, and reference material — kept where it is reachable without network or login.

The library is built around 🔗 Kiwix, an open-source offline reader. Kiwix takes huge bodies of online knowledge — Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Project Gutenberg, Stack Exchange archives, medical and reference works — and packages them as .zim files that live on local disk. Once downloaded, no network is needed to read them.

Why offline

🌱 Knowledge does not have to live in the cloud to be alive 🔌 Power outages, dead links, paywalls, and platform shutdowns all stop at the edge of the local disk 🤫 Reading offline leaves no trail 🏡 A personal library, kept on your own shelves, on your own terms

Books and articles outside the Kiwix collection are kept alongside with WebsiteGrabber, PDF and EPUB — the everyday reading that makes the library feel lived-in.

Try it yourself

🔗 Start at kiwix.org — desktop apps for Linux, macOS, Windows, and mobile apps for iOS and Android. The full English Wikipedia is about 100 GB; smaller curated sets are a few GB.