I just tried that with Reader. I have no unread items but gears wanted to download 2000 items and it took a while. Then, I switched back to online mode, works

I just tried that with Reader. I have no unread items but gears wanted to download 2000 items and it took a while. Then, I switched back to online mode, works as you expect. Switched back to offline mode, and it wants to download 2000 items again. I decided offline mode for reader wasn't very good.