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The AAAA cell maybe lasts for 6 months and is 20c*. I have a reMarkable with Wacom EMR as used on Scribe as well as an Elipsa. I also have a working Kindle DXG (I replaced cell) and did recently have an Oasis. I still have a KK3 and PW3, so totally familiar with Amazon ecosystem and Calibre. I've had magazine subs on Amazon and read them on a Kobo H2O.
I've not yet had to replace Sage or Elipsa battery and still "good". The Battery icon on GUI reports state.
I'd only use either for PDFs. I use 8″ Kobo Sage to read for pleasure, write with conversion to text to export and read for work (proof & annotate PDFs).
I proof PDFs on Elipsa and use it for PDF datasheets and manuals. It's like writing with a ballpoint pen on paper copy. No need to do anything special. The handwriting/sketches appear to be added as an extra image in the PDF file. Nicer than the reMarkable.
The Sage/Elipsa Basic Notebooks are like the reMarkable Notebook, just a sketchpad, though there is PDF or PNG export. The reMarkable is multilayer mono-paint package. Overkill.
The reMarkable is rubbish compared to the Elipsa: no USB Mass Storage, only one-at-a-time USB network. No Library features, only File Browser. No true Text Annotation, no handwriting conversion/recognition and only 6 G byte storage.
The Elipsa and Sage has the Kobo text annotation, like any Kindle, but also handwritten sketches and handwriting can be attached as notes to eBooks instead. No idea how you extract them as I'm only interest in real text annotation of ebooks, or the Stylus "on the page" digital inking sketch/handwriting on the PDFs.
Kobo integration to Calibre is best of all ereaders and I read all my ebooks bought from Amazon on the Kobo Sage.
I'd only consider the Scribe for proofing PDFs; the 300 dpi vs 227 dpi is an advantage. From using Kindles with Amazon & Calibre the Kindles are inferior for ebooks to Kobo, but better than other ereaders. Though the 227 dpi Elipsa has less dots than the 300 dpi Sage, I'd prefer PDFs on the Elipsa.
From reading all the posts here on Scribe and reviews it seems the "Sticky notes" are not much different to Kobo stylus annotations for ebooks. It's totally crazy you are expected to send PDFs to Amazon. Many organisations wouldn't permit that. As a programmer, it's political rather than needed to make PDFs work.
The Kobo Sage is better for PDFs than the DXG!
I might buy a Scribe if they improve the software regarding PDFs and fix Kindle in general; doesn't need to manage via Amazon web page and can set series & Collection from PC without jailbreaking. Series is often wrong, collections a pain. I find annotations better on Kobo.
OTOH it's likely Kobo will have the 10″+ 300dpi panel. The Scribe is much more use than a reMarkable and more honestly described but the ONLY advance over other 10″+ size eink (other than reMarkable) is really 300 dpi vs 227 dpi.
(* I dismember cheap 9V alkaline tablet batteries (6LR23 / PP3?) for 6 x AAAA cells.)
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