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AFAIK you can use Kindle completely offline. Some family members do exactly this. They buy books online and upload them over USB. The main reason is that they read books in language that the Kindle store does not support.
But yeah, as far as I know the devices weren't online like ever. Maybe except some initial setup that needs an Amazon account. You can just make a burner account, set the device up and don't even bother storing credentials.
You lose some convenience like synchronization of reading progress and notes, but I'm not sure whether any of the open source options even have that kind of functionality.