"...on sabbatical sailing half the planet so far... Internet has been a big headache as Iridium tops out at 2400bps..." Interesting use case. How about a solid

"...on sabbatical sailing half the planet so far... Internet has been a big headache as Iridium tops out at 2400bps..." Interesting use case. How about a solid refurbished laptop (or rooted Chromebook) with a set of Debian stable DVDs (you can install thousands of packages offline) and a local install of Wikipedia[1] and a dump of Project Gutenberg[2]? Save that couple of kilobauds for email. [1] http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html#Option_2:_Download_the_wiki_from_archive.org http://xowa.org/home/wiki/App/Import/English_Wikipedia.html#... [2] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12311/how-to-download-all-english-books-from-gutenberg http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12311/how-to-down...