[delecti]

> Kindles are somewhat infamous for updates that wipe storage if they think you are side loading pirate ebooks

Source? I've never heard of this, and I used to work there, including building the OS from source (though my contributions to the OS were pretty minimal). If you just put a .mobi file onto the storage, how does it have any idea where it came from?

> If you don't allow the device to connect to the internet, yes

Why is that a problem for a device which has been EoL'd?