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Tablets and e-ink readers offer very different features as well as a different reading experience. Many, perhaps most, of us have both and use them differently. As an avid reader, I have a Kindle Paperwhite which I use for almost all of my regular e-book reading and, for me, it's the best e-ink device too own because of the selection and prices of Kindle e-books and Amazon's well-deserved reputation for customer service and support.
None of the Kindles have expandable memory but the storage capacity is more than adequate for most people since Amazon archives all of your purchases in their cloud and you can download them whenever you want. There's really no reason to store your entire library on your device. It just slows you down and makes it hard to find the books you're interested in reading since you have to navigate through page after page of titles and very little information is displayed other than title and author.
I use Calibre to manage my ebook library and download all of my ebooks to my computer then organize them in my Calibre library because it's so much more powerful and customizable than the Amazon cloud. I seldom keep more than a couple of dozen e-books on my device, just the ones I'm currently reading and the next few I plan to read.
I use a 9" tablet for watching videos, checking email and internet surfing, and for reading magazines, PDF's, and anything else with graphics and illustrations. I far prefer a 9 or 10" tablet for these uses, having previously owned a 7" Kindle Fire and a Nexus 7. In my case, the tablet I chose was a Nook HD+. For a combination of price and features, I believe it's one of the best tablets available. I have a dual boot SD card purchased from Android for Nook that allows me to run the stock Nook OS or to run pure Android Jelly Bean.
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