Kobo, PocketBook and tolino are all okay ebook readers for privacy and can be operated 100% offline.
If you want to buy an e-book reader I would recommend one of them.
Kobo for now seems to have the better hardware compared to Pocketbook and tolino is basically a rebranded Kobo.
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