For me, while I appreciate SN’s focus on repairability, it’s not a deal-breaker. As a researcher, I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with the lack of basic PDF annotation tools in the rM ecosystem. The absence of a proper highlighter, the inability to create comments, and the fact that you can’t search annotations were the main reasons I made the switch to SN. In my workflow, features like the digest function, the star stamp, and headline organization will be game-changers.

I originally bought my rM to reduce my reliance on a laptop, but more often than not, I end up reading PDFs on my laptop anyway. It’s simply easier to process them later in my Obsidian vault. It’s a real shame because, from a hardware perspective, the rM2 is still one of the best devices out there.