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I'm looking for ideas to replace a Kobo Aura One which is feeling quite long in the tooth.

The vast majority of my reading on an e-book reader is novels, manga, and non-fiction (ie: not textbooks or large-page PDFs or American comics etc).

I tried to replace the KA1 with an 11th generation Kindle Paperwhite Signature, but I find the screen on the Paperwhite to be a touch small, for someone used to Kobo the Kindle feels restrictive, and finally the power button both sticking out and being on the bottom is very annoying.

My main reason for leaving the KA1 behind is I just can't deal with the slooooooooooooowness inaccurate/offset touch response, and inability to jump to a specific page number any more.

I'm looking for:

- minimum 7" screen and strongly prefer around 8 to 8.5"
- sideloading. If it presents as USB mass storage device to a computer then even better
- flush screen, not sunken bezel
- snappy UI
- good search options, both for titles/authors and for text within books (e.g. Kindle is annoying because you can't pop back to the search list as far as I know)
- sharp, contrasty screen
- fits in my back pocket (this probably knocks out modern Kobos with the wide side bezels)
- can add my own selection of fonts
- easy to buy in Canada

Would be nice:

- quick pan and zoom on graphics would be nice
- Overdrive integration. I coooould make do with Libby but I don't like the Libby Android app on tablets so I doubt I would like it any more on an e-reader.
- clock displayed somewhere while reading
- file format support beyond epub. cbr/cbz would be handy. I seldom use it, but PDF and RTF support would be cake.
- some way to grab books off cloud storage, be that a good web browser, or apps for Dropbox, Box etc.

Don't care about:

- store. My to-read pile is already years long
- dictionaries. Nice to have but not critical
- case availability. I haven't used one in close to twenty years
- Google Play Store. I want to read, not TikTok

What's the state of the e-reader art? Thanks!