(Oddly enough, I am more likely to read a Wikipedia article from beginning to end if I'm looking something up on the Kindle, while I'm reading a book.)
There's definitely some appetite for [WP-branded and -supported!] reading and research devices tuned for this sort of work: hyperlinked referencing, bookmarking, reading, annotating, and compiling into an overview of one's thoughts while working through an original document [book, article, encyclopedia article].
I think it would be more interesting to spin off the existing
"Wikipedia Library" into its own international organization (or home it with an existing one), tasked with giving free knowledge contributors (including potentially to other free knowledge projects like OSM) access to proprietary resources
Warmly agreed. Related essential services: curating and organizing proprietary resources, and transmogrifying them into reusable elements [cf. ContentMine/FactMine]. A few narrow areas of this are covered by commercial services, but most are not.
Sam.