Kobo - great devices - I will always buy from them - great for family.
As another pointed out you can bypass account creation using an sqlite query, depending on version (in KoboReader.sqlite).
There are multiple configuration files list the api locations that beacon reading information regardless of how books were loaded.
Though if you care about tracking you also have to find and replace any mention to facebook, google and a few other places (in eReader.conf).
sed 's/\(http\)\(.*\)/http:\/\/localhost/g'
Didn't see any more strings in the firmware binaries (checked last year).
Other e-readers stop at nothing to sell your data. Kobo is reasonable.
There are multiple configuration files list the api locations that beacon reading information regardless of how books were loaded. Though if you care about tracking you also have to find and replace any mention to facebook, google and a few other places (in eReader.conf).
Didn't see any more strings in the firmware binaries (checked last year). Other e-readers stop at nothing to sell your data. Kobo is reasonable.