I dislike distraction as well and completely understand your wish to organise and structure your device's content. However, I agree with tshering. Pocket makes reading articles from the internet so extremely convenient that it is worth switching on wifi, syncing, and switching wifi back off*. A lot less steps than your current method, and that's even excluding the steps you forgo by not having to extract articles yourself! Plus as tshering says, all Pocket content is stored separately from the book library, nice and orderly
*And even if you forget to switch off wifi, there still isn't any distraction. You can switch auto-sync off in the settings and if you really want to you can make the distracting Kobo Store link in the bottom of the home screen disappear with a patch
