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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.
Until some critical part oxidates or otherwise breaks. Which will likely be a long time before the new society is able to build a replacement.
But the WikiReader is probably a step in the right direction that is worth mentioning.
While most of the current technology depend on many other technology to be useful (cellular phones need cellular networks, most gadgets won't last a day on their internal batteries etc), the WikiReader is a welcome step in the direction less travelled. I only hope that we will have more of that.