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I'm using an ereader without WiFi every day. It's just no longer is in production. (it has a semi-standard battery. I'm on my second.) It is a Hanlin 6 inch. (a BeBook and an Astak) I expect to keep using them until the EARL comes out, or they finally give up their ghosts. Which might be decades...if I can keep getting replacement batteries.
No ads, nobody looking over my shoulder and easy to crossload.
EARL (if it ever comes out), will have such useless geegaws as walkie-talkie, topographic maps of the Continental US, music player, GPS, and a built-in solar charger. I may never use any these features, but it was worth it (at $300 a pop) to get a front-lit paperwhite reader with a MicroSD chip reader and a user replaceable battery.
It limits me to 128GB, (a full size SD chip is currently up to 512GB) but I'll live with it.
Finally, I don't see any reason why a e-ink device can't be multi-functional. No more so that making a cell phone multi-functional. An e-ink device can't do full motion video? So what? A cell phone can't last a month on a charge, either. Mutli-functional doesn't mean every function, just many functions....
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