Trying to get away from my phone more, and an e reader sounds like a good way to get myself to read more. Kobo is sounding like the most recommended one based on some googling, but I’m also ok with jailbreaking something like an older kindle from eBay. Something that plays nice with Libby would be ideal but not required. 
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For an extremely minimalist and pocketable experience, the XTEINK 4 is my most fun eBook reader. Note that this device can only open epub and txt files, and the text formatting in epub doesn't work, so I have to run my epub books through calibre and convert to txt to add markdown to know what's going on with formatting.
People are recommending Boox but they've gone overly expensive lately IMO. For a multipurpose, fast android ereader I'd go with a BigMe, much more bang for your buck especially for the pencil-enabled models, or if you want an affordable huge b&w screen, my Moaan W8 is wonderful.