Critical thinking skills are essential for that, and they stopped teaching that a long time ago. It’s not enough to have access to information, you have to have the skills to judge and interpret it. This is why misinformation is such a problem, people literally don’t have the skills to distinguish between it and actual facts

Regardless of what reader you go with, look into KoReader, a custom reader app that you install on top of existing firmware. Offers a lot of features that stock firmware doesn’t, like OPDS catalog connections