This is precisely what I do on my laptop. I regularly have to access the web over rather poor connections like public hotspots or not-quite-so-glorious Internet

This is precisely what I do on my laptop. I regularly have to access the web over rather poor connections like public hotspots or not-quite-so-glorious Internet connections, and web fonts make this quite messy. I really like typography (calligraphy has been one of my favourite pastimes for many years) but I think its implementation on the Internet is very bad from a usability perspective.