I’m curious how you like the reMarkable tablet. I’ve looked at that and Boox Android tablets for a reading/writing device. I read a lot in the Nook and Libby apps, so full Android is attractive. I’d likely want a detachable keyboard, so I could use it for writing but leave it off for reading.
I have so many thoughts on this 
Almost everything you named it’s not good at 
. But you might still be interested in the details…
Love it for:
- Handwriting
- Taking live notes—in meetings, while moderating panel discussions, when taking questions during presentations
- Sketching poorly—I sketch poorly; the device is very good at translating pressure and strokes
- Handwriting recognition, even on atrocious scrawl
Bonus likes:
- It has Bluetooth for presenting handwritten content directly to display devices.
- It syncs to mobile and desktop apps, enabling me to print off copies of meeting notes and inappropriate work doodles upon request. (This happened so frequently that a colleague got me a portable thermal printer so we can print stuff on the spot.)
Mixed bag:
- It’s been good for some instances of PDF annotation, when I don’t need to preserve formatting and can embiggen the margins for notes and doodles. But it can’t export PDF highlights as text. I said,
it can’t export PDF highlights as text!! At least not yet 
. - With shared PDFs, I find it good for stuff like layout markups but more hassle than the effort is worth for signatures.
- The product line and even the company are young. Updates roll out slowly. Individual copies have quirks—I had to send mine back for a replacement, but the company was great about it and received and in-turn shipped overseas within one week.
No no:
- I dislike it for eBook reading but use it anyway. Can’t justify purchasing and carrying around a third tablet: reMarkable, iPad, and Boox/Supernote/Kindle/whatever would feel like going overboard. The display and front-light, which I think are gorgeous, aren’t the problem. It’s the size and weight. Would rather hold a first-print hardback for four hours while lying down than hold the reMarkable Paper Pro for one hour on a train.
- The OS doesn’t support apps—except for some sideloading hacks— making the entire investment truly about having a writing tablet and not a general mobile device. Not an Android.
Where I’m useless to you:
- You mentioned the keyboard. I don’t type on my handwriting tablet
except to name my files. The rare times when I want to type in my digital handwriting notebooks, I switch to reMarkable’s Windows app, which I find pleasant and distraction-free for longform. But at that point, I would rather continue typing in Obsidian instead.
The deciding factor for me was the “paper” feel. It has my favorite feel among every handwriting tablet I tried.
Workflow most relevant to this forum: On two occasions, I exported my Obsidian notes to PDF, did a real-time group mark up on em using the reMarkable, and then thermal printed em for folks to take to their corners for individual markup.
Yup—the reMarkable is definitely aimed at taking handwritten notes. My handwriting is barely legible and writing gives me cramps, soooooooo . . . . I use a keyboard all day long, and it’s a much more comfortable text entry method for me. I also read a lot of DRM content, and I need to use proprietary apps. I wish that wasn’t the case, as they are awful at integrating the notes, to say nothing of the actual text, into something useful. If I could get non-DRM ePub files, reMarkable would be a lot more attractive.
That said, I love the readability of e-ink and the portability of a tablet. I currently use a MacBook Pro and an old 8" Android tablet for most of my reading and writing, and I have a basic Nook for books purchased from B&N. The tablet needs to be replaced soon, which is why I’ve been looking at reMarkable and Boox. There are other Android based readers, but those two would be the best fit for my needs.
If I could get non-DRM ePub files
You might be interested in Calibre for exactly that. It’s how I port all my reading to different devices, including the reMarkable. Similarly to Obsidian, it’s free software with loads of community-contributed plugins.
But we might have gone off topic for this forum now. Good luck!
You’re right—definitely off topic . . .
I use Calibre as a library manager, but I use BookFusion for reading. It runs on everything (Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, Web, Linux) supports online libraries and syncs all the books I’ll ever need for $18.99/year for online storage (you can sync 10 books for free). It even supports online libraries (for schools and organizations) and Send to Kindle, and has Obsidian integration for note-taking (see, I brought it back on topic). I prefer to support apps I like with subscriptions anyway (so they don’t fade away), so a small subscription cost is not a problem. It also has a much nicer interface than the Calibre reader, and it’s very easy to send books from Calibre to BookFusion.
Enough of that. Back to Obsidian and poetry.
Okay sneaking in another comment about it: BookFusion doesn’t de-DRM. Calibre is not for reading in, it’s for making your eBooks readable on devices like reMarkable.
Sneaking back out like it wasn’t me carrying on
Gotcha. I’ve had no luck with de-DRMing books. It’s nearly impossible to get to Nook epub files now anyway—both the app and Nook devices deliberately hide them. I use Project Gutenburg and other (legit) public domain sources whenever I can, and BookFusion has its own store as well.