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@mirage, do you plan to buy eBooks? If you do, how do you do it without some corporations knowing that you've bought these eBooks? You buy from Kobo, Amazon, or Google and they know you have. You cannot buy an eBook without giving up some information. You can keep WiFi off on your Reader. But you also need a valid account in order to buy these eBooks. So why not create a valid account and properly register? If you want to be assured of being able to keep track of what you've read or what you are reading, you will need a valid account to register.
Take Kobo (for example), yes you can do a fake registration, but there have been firmware updates where the fake registration stopped working because something changed. You don't know if they will happen again. So that's out.
The thing is, unless you plan on reading only public domain, or creative commons eBooks, you cannot keep your information private. Keeping WiFi off will keep your reding data from being sent back.
The reason I'm suspicious is that unless you are going to read public domain or creative commons eBooks, red flags are raised. So I'll ask. I know that some people want more privacy, but you cannot have it with a Reader and have privacy if you plan on buying or using the library to get eBooks.
Oh I forgot to add, scan/OCR pBooks is another thing you can do without giving away information.
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