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Overview
A Wikipedia Book is an organized collection of Wikipedia articles that can be rendered electronically in PDF format, or ordered from an associate publisher as a printed book. The book is compiled afresh each time it is downloaded or ordered, so will always reflect the latest versions of the articles. (Some content temporarily struck out).
Each book has its own Wikipedia page, which contains a Contents list of the articles included in it together with formatting metadata. You can create a book as a sub-page in your own user space, or as a community book in the Book: namespace. Once completed, a book can be uploaded to the independent company PediaPress, where print-on-demand copies can be ordered. Books may also be uploadable to other independent publishing tools such as MediaWiki2LaTeX.
For information and help on Wikipedia books in general, see Help:Books (general tips) and WikiProject Wikipedia-Books (questions and assistance).
History
At one time Wikipedia e-books were available in several formats. However the Offline Content Generator software then in use became unmaintainable and outdated and was decommissioned in late 2017.
A candidate replacement, called Electron, was based on the open-source Chrome HTML-to-PDF rendering engine but proved unsuitable for books, although it came into use for the PDF download of single articles. A second attempt, named Proton, also failed to create whole books. In April 2018 PediaPress stepped forward to develop a viable replacement, based on their previous experience with their own in-house renderer. The new renderer is open-source and is expected to provide limited initial functionality, with incremental improvements over time.
As of March 2019, a viable Wikipedia back end is still a work in hand, while the Book Creator design tool and PediaPress print service remain available.
Bookshelf
The Bookshelf is a tool to browse, search and view the Wikipedia Books created to date.
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Featured and good topics
Featured topics and Good topics are collections of some of Wikipedia's best articles.
Some topics may have a dedicated book linked in the upper-left corners of the topic boxes.