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It's not a software problem, the Oasis has free cellular service for life.
If you turn your Wifi off on an Android phone for example - it still scans and uses the wifi to keep track of your location, for instance. It's an anti-consumer pattern that companies are using. Airplane mode? -- Sure, for YOU. But Amazon probably still allows cell service to connect every couple of hours for exactly this kind of thing.
The error message she received wasn't sly about it either. It said something very direct along the lines of "We have determined that you are not eligible to read this book so we have removed it from your device"
Free cellular for life, except Amazon has basically limited it down to nothing
I loved my oasis, but the whispersync was, for all intents, busted, for the last few years.
Finally moved to a boox go color, installed calibre, and couldn't be happier