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I've looked into this in the past and settled on Kobo. You can disable the telemetry and never use the the Rakuten account part and have a very good ereader... And you can install the open source KOReader software.
https://github.com/koreader/koreader
MobileRead forums and wiki are a good resource for ebook stuff.
For example, a breakdown of the hidden configs on Kobo devices https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_Configuration_Options
Same here. I only buy drm-free from ebooksdotcom, and transfer them with ~~caliber~~ calibre. My kobo wifi isn't even configured.
*Calibre. (link for those that don't know it: https://calibre-ebook.com/)
and (for anyone reading this later) if you are all about keeping things up to date, you can sideload firmware
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_Firmware_Releases#Firmware_Download_Link
(at your own risk)