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Ereaders like Kindles, Kobos and so on are devices that can connect to internet to sync their contents and to provide some form of social networking capabilities, but otherwise are meant to be used with local ebook files. What you call "offline viewing" is really the only way to read ebooks on these devices.
Epub books are basically a particular type of a .zip file; its contents are made of many different html files, there are no single "pages" with the same meaning of a paper book.
As a rule of thumb, if there were problems during the download that corrupted the file, you should not be able to open it with your ereading software at all, or get some errors. On the other hand, if you can correctly open it and read its contents, you can be reasonably sure that the file integrity is all right.
Another test that you can easily perform, is to simply browse your ebook and directly see if all of its parts are displaying correctly; a properly created ebook has a table of contents where you can check, .i.e., the supposed number of chapters, and try to navigate to each one of them to see if it is available/accessible. Easy as it sounds, a quick check like this is maybe the best way to check if the file is not damaged: if everything seems all right, well, everything is all right.
Anyway, you should also consider that usually, I dare say on the 99% of the cases, an ebook file size is just a couple of megabytes or so. It is very unlikely that with this really small size and consequently short download times, there could be such problems on the network that could damage your file; even in the worst of the hypothesis, redownloading the ebook is just a matter of seconds.
Summarizing, your concerns are perfectly understandable, but in a real world scenario, they are likely to happen in the 0,01% range, maybe.
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