Mine was secondhand. I don't use Sony's store and never bothered to follow up with the seller if he dereg'd it. I've loaded Connect before but use Calibre. I still have a couple of his books on the Reader. I know he wasn't going to use the store anymore and those were his only copies of the books so I'm not worried.
If you are at all worried that Connect will cause problems just go ahead and use Calibre.
-MJ
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