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Originally Posted by tompe
I am also of the opinion that a device that is not connected to the net always is kind of broken.
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I'm of the opinion that this is a dumb opinion.
An e-reader does not *require* an internet connection to perform its main functionality: holding, organizing and presenting ebooks.
All other stuff such as Cloud Collections / WhisperSync, Social Media, buying books directly from a store, looking up stuff on Wikipedia and so on, should be optional.
I am of the opinion that all of these functions should be completely disabled if there is no internet connection, instead of having them enabled and constantly nag you to connect the device to the internet.
If there is no internet, the reader should not attempt to organize books in Cloud Collections. It should organize them locally, and as soon as there is a connection, it should update the Cloud Collection. (I.e.: same way as DropBox works.) And it should ONLY update Cloud Collections if an option to do that is set, because I can imagine that people don't want to use Cloud Collections, but do want to use the online store.