I need a cost-effective device that I only use for reading. Books, articles, PDFs, etc. Must be able to sync with Readwise relatively easily, and must not easily distract me with non-reading activities.

Daylight Computer is perfect for this use case and a daily joy that has coincided with a lot more (article) reading for me. Granted — not cheap. A killer (albeit flawed) v1

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It’s just very much a v1. Basically stock android with a third party launcher, a little heavier than preferred, and would really like a proper keyboard case for writing. But the screen makes all of those things rounding errors and I’m very excited for what the cook up software-wise

What flaws do you see, and how do they impact your use?

(I've only played with a Daylight for ~5min)

Agree with this take, v1 has many flaws (e.g. build quality is meh, lacks contrast compared to my Kindle) BUT have found myself using it a lot as a daily driver for articles/newspapers.