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I have been using an iPad with a keyboard case as my primary computing device since late 2011. Not only have I lost track of how many iPads I’ve owned during that time—the keyboards I’ve attached have been even more innumerable.

There was the first, the ZaggFolio, which proved to me that an iPad could be a laptop. Several Logitechs, including one—simultaneously wacky and practical—which replenished its battery via a solar panel. Belkin’s outstanding Qode, which deserved a better name. And, since 2015, Apple’s own thin-and-light keyboards—the Smart Keyboard and more recent Smart Keyboard Folio, both of which have sealed keyboards with a fabric covering.

Normally, in a typical week, I might work on my keyboard-cased 12.9″ iPad Pro at my desk, in multiple coffee shops and sandwich joints, on the subway, during field trips such as company visits, and maybe inside a Lyft or two. In these most abnormal of times, however, I am stuck at home, and trudging from my…