> the device seems to want to turn on Wi-Fi for me to open books I have downloaded already onto the device They probably weren't downloaded. My Kindle has been

> the device seems to want to turn on Wi-Fi for me to open books I have downloaded already onto the device They probably weren't downloaded. My Kindle has been doing this thing for years: it only seems to download enough metadata to show a newly purchased book in the list, but the actual book won't download until I try to read it. I don't know why because it's utterly stupid, I don't know under what circumstances it does this and when it downloads the entire book by itself, it seems to be completely random. > I managed to get some books off it to epub format, but the most recent updates have somehow stopped the program that did that from working. And 5 years later companies will whine to the media about evil piracy again.