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You can't purchase ebooks on either Kobo or Kindle without registering. Your credit card data must be real (obviously). You can buy Amazon gift cards and apply them to your account, if you want, but I think you might initially have to have a credit card listed, to get country of residence confirmed. I'm not sure, though.
Wikipedia is available with Kindle, but requires an internet connection. I don't think there is enough memory to accomodate the downloadable version. Plus, you wouldn't have the latest edits.
Why do you care if Amazon knows what you are reading? They don't sell the data to anyone else, and if you bought the books from them, of course they know you have those books. Even if you email books to their cloud to sideload them, I've never seen any evidence that they look into those books. Why would they care? I think you are paranoid for no reason.
Kindle can read txt, pdf (not great), and mobi format from external sources. All other formats must be converted into one of those formats.
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