As much as I love writing on it, my reMarkable2 (which has already been annoying me with its response to being caught out in the rain a couple years ago, two laptops and another tablet in the same backpack shrugged it off with no trouble but the rM2 now gets days on a full battery charge instead of months) has a jammed power button and no other way to wake it from sleep, so it's time to retire it.

Samsung makes tablets with the same stylus technology so I picked up one of those, and it's... adequate. At least it's half the price and should be durable enough to handle living in a backpack and not just sitting on a desk and never going anywhere (and if this one dies, for the same price as a rM2 I can get a ruggedized one with a bigger screen)

The device I really want is the guts of the new color reMarkable in an enclosure that's actually as durable as a reasonable person would expect from a consumer electronics device at that price point, but capitalism says nobody will buy that, so I can't buy it.