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If the Kindle never has Internet access (and that includes access through another app) Amazon should not be able to connect at all, but even if your books are from a public library Amazon will still be provided a record of them.
From one library's site: "...we want you to know that when you check out a Kindle eBook you must use your Amazon account. At that point we no longer have control over protecting your records associated with this transaction. At the very least, Amazon may use this information to recommend other items for purchase to you, as is the case with any purchases you make through the site."
YouTube buffers content and your device may have already downloaded the entire file, but if it's a phone it would just switch to the mobile network.
Sometimes I think I'm too paranoid about this stuff and the next day they'll be another headline about corporate abuse of "protected" consumer data or yet another breach. Remember Facebook's years long access of protected medical records through a tracking tool installed on a third of medical websites? I'm probably not paranoid enough.