I have a Kobo. This is correct -- it won't let you do anything before you connect it to Wifi. However, there is a trivial hack to get around this where you con

I have a Kobo. This is correct -- it won't let you do anything before you connect it to Wifi. However, there is a trivial hack to get around this where you connect it to your computer via USB and manually edit a sqlite database to put in some blank entries on the registration. There are lots of posts on how to do this online. After you've done this, it works offline just fine.