I had a remarkable 2 for a year and was very dissatisfied with how hard it was to modify or run custom scripts or third party gui apps on it. Then came the subscription stuff and I ditched it.

Bought pinenote and even though I'm no linux developer, I've set it up and it works very well. Been using it for 3+ years now.

The build feels cheaper compared to remarkable, but the hardware spec is much better. And the best part is I can just run syncthing or kdeconnect or any linux desktop app on it and it's great.

I have an original reMarkable (not the 2) and whilst it’s a but slow for big fancy scanned PDFs it is generally pretty good for what I want. It does also run linux so you can ssh into it and do everything locally away from their cloud services which is nice

The Remarkable 2 is fantastic. You can ssh into it, and scp from it. There are some filesystem layout quirks, but it's good. Peerless writing experience. Great battery. Plenty storage. Large screen. No backlight, sadly. Good for

• taking notes
• reading & annotating PDFs
• reading technical books, with illustrations and diagrams
• reading graphic novels

Not so good for reading for pleasure, like fiction. It's too big. It's best for active reading and writing.

I have a Kobo Aura H2O for recreational reading and travel. Massive memory and an SD expansion slot. Backlight. Pretty indestructible, I read it in the jacuzzi.

I went with the supernote Manta and I love it. It is Android based, not Linux, and the ecosystem is really sparse. But you can easily side load F-Droid or the aurora store and that opens everything up. I have next cloud syncing my documents and moon reader giving me access to my calibre library.

It is first and foremost a note taker and drawing pad, sacrificing lights and color for writing feel. The writing feel is amazing though. No subscriptions, non replaceable pens, support for replaceable tip 3rd party pens.

It's cost is quite a bit more than remarkable 2 or the pinenote though.

Based on linux is no guarantee for stable, secure or privacy respecting software. Android is based on Linux. :-) And so is Remarkable, and some of the e-book readers.

I really like both the idea behind e-book readers and Remarkable, but they are often a very closed environment, so forget about most FOSS, if any. They want to make money on you, and that stops, if you use other software than theirs.

I have the boox note air 4c, and it is really great for taking notes. It is kaliedo color, which is great for me but you can also get a black and white version which has better contrast. The notes app is all around pretty great, although it isn't well optimised for art of that's your thing. It also runs android so you can get a ton of functionality from installing apps onto it. I use localsend in particular to share files to and from the device, and obsidian for text-based notes.

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Hey. Thank you all for the answers. It made me see that there are more devices to get to know. Like one of you has written, some devices may be so niche, that support isnt going too stay long. And, what to do then? Is it another device that will be in the schelff? Im going to look more into Kobo, and Boox, at first. But yir its just easyer to have a device in the hand, and then make a choice :)

I had the remarkable 1, 2 and now have the Pro.

I also have a PineNote.

My notes on both https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Eink including installing specific apps

I would suggest a super note manta.

I owe a Boox Note Air. Had it for a while now. Overall very good tablet but it is expensive. Runs a custom Android skin which is fine since I run it offline most of the time. Perfect for reading and writing.

Take a look at the Kobo Elipsa. I know someone who has it and they like it a lot. They use it daily at work for taking notes. I think you can export your notes to a computer by connecting it via USB and mounting it as a drive.

I recently bought an XP Pen Magic Note Pad that I've been pretty happy with. It's sort of a hybrid tablet/notetaker that's going for a jack of all trades master of none vibe while still having an overall good writing experience and I think it succeeds at that

Pros:

• bought for $200 refurbished on an eBay sale directly from XP Pen (I think it's $300 or so resfurbished normally)
• runs an OS based on Android 14 so full play/aurora/F-Droid access easily
• comes with a good pen, small folio case and notetaking app based on Jnotes
• screen is matte with a slightly textured feel. Can switch between a full color, paper color and grayscale display mode with a single button. 90hz, palm rejection while writing is very good.

Cons

• Came out this year but a little worried about continued OS support being a niche item
• built in notetaking app is great except for the handwriting recognition. I bought Nebo for that which is a one time license of $8 which isn't bad at all and their handwriting recognition is like dark magic it's amazing
• not a true e-ink, so battery life is more like a standard tablet. I'm usually getting 2-3 days of use wheras e-inks will give you weeks
• not a true paper-like writing experience but better than an iPad out of the box
• overall it's a mostly fine android tablet with a few tweaks aimed at the note-taking market

All in all I do really enjoy it, and for $200 including a pen, case and software it was hard to pass up. I've locked it down a bit but you're not going to get a totally degoogled experience. At $300 I would still consider it but probably wouldn't buy new. Let me know if you have any other questions!

I have a remarkable 2 and I like it. And yes it's a Linux machine.

I've found that all modern E-Ink tablets are trash. They're built cheaply and to fail after 2 years or less, regardless of premium model or not. I went through 4 devices of various models and manufacturers (Kobo, Kindle, Pocketbook) over <2 years, while I used my old Kindle 3 for >5 years and technically it still works. These days they all use the same wonky chipsets and flakey components especially for power management. 3 of those 4 devices just suddenly didn't turn on anymore one day.

Personally, I now read on my FP5 with the Android KOReader port, which due to the AMOLED screen has excellent contrast and sufficient battery life with white-on-black text. Maybe when we finally stop producing devices for land fills I'll take another look at E-Ink.

I have kobo sage. It runs on a Linux based OS. Not fully Linux, but very open and doesn't get in your way. Easily jailbreakable if you want to install KOreader on it. I turn off the wifi on it and go for it. Been loving it. Only issue with it is the battery is on the smaller side, so it doesn't last for weeks like the Amazon ~~kindled~~ Kindles, but it's good enough for me when the wifi is off.

Bigme ePaper Smartphone Hibreak Pro if the money allows you to buy this device.