So, it turns out that my laptop has an aversion to .zip files. After trying for over two hours to transfer the .zip file to my hard drive, I gave up. It's only a 180 mb file, it should not take two hours to transfer. Fortunately, I could appeal to a higher power. My beautiful desktop computer, aka the C-Cube (named after the pirate fairy computer in Artemis Fowl). I was able to unzip the file in about two minutes, and then burn them to a CD. The new files were about 190 megs, and took exactly three minutes to transfer to my laptop.
The end result: I now have a truncated, slightly out of date, British version of Wikipedia stashed neatly on my laptop's hard drive, just in case I need it. It's really quite lovely, and more convenient than running downstairs to one of our internet ready computers. Only gripe about Pocket Wikipedia: you can only search one keyword at a time.
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