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The vast majority all of the books that I now read are textbooks. Whether it is related to university, or teaching my self a new programming language; I rarely read novels. The books that I read have lots of images, diagrams and text features. (I have attached an example of text features for those who do not know what they are). I wish to purchase an e-reader: either a Kindle, iPad Pro, or some other lesser-known variant of the two. I'm drawn to the Kindle becuase of its price. I would purchase a Kindle, or simmilar if I knew how it handles text features, diagrams and images. I’m drawn to the iPad Pro becuase I know it can handle text features, images, and diagrams. It also has an Apple Pencil, so I can annotate while reading. I will obviously be using pirated PDFs and EPUBs. I am looking for advice.

As your lawyer, i advise you to get a kobo, which has nice libre readers to match your dataz. Don't know what's the market like right now, but it'll be priced in the same ballpark. Add to that a warm fuzzy feeling of staying true to your ideals or subverting a rampant data capitalists and you're in for a lots of jolly reading hours. Screen might be a limitting factor when reading some really wide scans like the ones you have, some will have a toll on the overall experience, but nothing yet made it uncomfortable to put down a book for me. Can't vouch for magazines, but all the pdfs, epubs and what not flies just fine.

Eink is far nicer to use, but if the books you're interested in are large-format and feature a lot of pictures like those in your OP you'll be better off with a tablet rather than ereader. If any of those pirated PDFs are scans rather than proper ebooks the choice is absolutely clear cut. An ereader won't handle that acceptably.

OP here. I just wanted to make it clear that the attachments are random examples from the internet. I am a Electrical Engineering PhD. candidate.