My USB drive carries Wikipedia and a library that doesn’t need Wi-Fi

I’ve used flash drives for years as glorified pockets for files I’ll probably forget about. Then I loaded Kiwix onto my PC, pointed it at a 16GB stick, and the drive finally got a real job. It now holds a slice of Wikipedia, a Project Gutenberg collection, and room for more reference material that still opens when Windows insists there’s no internet connection.