A dead-tree copy of Wikipedia has been estimated at around 1,420 volumes. Here's an illustration, with a human for scale. It's big. You might as well go for broke and hole up in a library when the Big Catastrophe happens.
One of these http://thewikireader.com/ with rechargeable batteries and a solar charger could work.
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