Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I used to love my Paperwhite. I'm a voracious reader, and when I first got it, it was the perfect device for me. The display is great, and I love being able to read both in the dark without a light on and outside without glare. And then, not content to leave well enough alone, Amazon decided to update the Paperwhite. Now, for some reason that I cannot explain, every time you connect to wifi, the Paperwhite assumes that you want to sync everything with "the Cloud," which I do not wish to do. This means, essentially, that if you moved a book to another collection while not connected to wifi, the Paperwhite will put the book back into the previous collection without warning you. And then I'm searching for my book and wondering where it went. If you are not connected to wifi all of the time (which I am not), every time you try to put a book into another collection, it'll warn you not once, but TWICE, that you are not connected to wifi (duh) and it can't sync it with the Cloud (I don't care about the Cloud, sorry). So it takes at least four screen taps to move one book into another collection. Every.single.time. If you delete a book when you are not connected to wifi, the deleted book will appeared as a grayed out book the next time you connect to wifi. So you have to delete the "ghost book" AGAIN if it will let you. If you have more than one Kindle device on your account, you now CANNOT have separate collections for each device because of this stupid Cloud thing. As soon as you connect to wifi, you'll get all of your collections downloaded on every device you own. I contacted Kindle Support about this, and they said that this was the "expected behavior" of the Kindle and I just had to get used to it. Seriously? How about no. Why can't I have separate collections for separate devices? Even better? If you delete one of your useless grayed-out collections on one device, it deletes them on EVERY device. So you delete your "to read" collection on your fire? Oh, guess who gets to reorganize over 200 books on their Paperwhite? I'm not even given an option if I WANT my Kindle to sync up with the Cloud. As soon as wifi is turned on, I have no choice. Kindle Support's brilliant solution to that problem? Keep my wifi off. Oh, okay. I regret updating my Paperwhite to this latest update. Had I known it would have been such a mess, I would have kept my Paperwhite off of wifi for good. Now, I have no choice but to either live with this horrible update (Kindle Support's solution) or buy another, non-Amazon ereader (which is beginning to look very attractive). I definitely won't buy another Kindle device until I have options to sync with the Cloud OR NOT and to have separate collections for separate devices. In the mean time, I have returned to using my older basic Kindle. I miss the backlit screen, but it's so much easier to add things into collections (instead of having to repeatedly peck at the screen to just move one book) and I don't have to mess with the Cloud. I will NOT be updating this Kindle or connecting it to wifi!