Kobo elipsa12/18/2023 Get news and reviews on technology, gadgets and gaming in our Technology newsletter every Friday. If you ever print things out to mark them up, fill notepads with writing or drawing that you later have to transcribe or scan, or just wish you could write all over your library books, this could be the device for you. With all that said, I can see it really appealing to e-reader fans who also tend to do a lot of work on paper. Meanwhile the big screen is perfect for magazines, grayscale-friendly comics and note-taking, but most other e-readers are more conveniently sized for taking with you. For example there was a nice analogue warmth to scrawling most of this article by hand while curled up in an armchair, but it wasn’t functionally easier than tapping it out on my phone. This is especially handy when it comes to PDFs, as changes you make are synced to Dropbox automatically when you have Wi-Fi, so you can move between your Elipsa, PC and phone and keep your notes.įor me personally the Elipsa is an interesting novelty, but I’m not sure I could fold it into my routines full-time. Or, as a colleague who heard me talk about the Elipsa 2E called it, “An unassuming ereader on the outside but filled with a wealth of other features.You can also write directly onto documents themselves, with all your word-circling and underlining and margin-scribbling saved as you go to review later. That, for me, is better value for a large-screen note-taking ereader that can prove really useful to researchers, students and academics. And the metal finish of the Scribe looks so much more premium compared to the Kobo's plastic body – the Kindle just oozes oomph.īut I think I’d take that little extra friction and a dated design only because I get so much more versatility out of Kobo’s Notebooks. It’s smooth as silk on the screen, while the Kobo Elipsa 2E offers more friction and writing on it feels like a pencil moving over paper. The flip side to all this is I love writing on the Scribe. Nothing like that on the Kindle Scribe that I can find. The Elipsa 2E will event prompt you to write smaller so you can keep your handwriting between the lines. One other thing I love about Kobo’s Advanced Notebooks – I even get control over the line spacing I want, with three choices of Narrow, Default and Wide. Of course, the old-fashioned way of plugging your device into a computer also works for both, but cloud transfer is so easy! While the Kindle lets you export your notes by emailing them to the address you use as your linked Amazon account, Kobo notes and annotations can directly be exported to a Dropbox account if you have one from the device itself. I’m not a math genius, so I haven’t tried anything more complicated than Pythagoras’ theorem and the Elipsa 2E solved it for me, even letting me know that the decimal section was approximate. In fact, the engine is smart enough to actually solve some of those mathematical problems for you. You can then convert everything handwritten to text and, I have to admit, I am very impressed with Kobo’s handwriting recognition engine. There’s the ability to insert mathematical equations if you’re trying to solve something. Diagrams like flowcharts, if hand-drawn, will automatically convert to a digitized version. You can start writing, then add a drawing or diagram under that. Writing on the Kindle Scribe (left) compared to handwriting recognition and diagram insertion on the Kobo Elipsa 2E (right) (Image credit: TechRadar / Sharmishta Sarkar) These notebooks open as a ruled page by default but there’s a whole load of customization options here. This is really where the two Kobo Elipsas – and even the Kobo Sage if you prefer a more portable note-taking ereader – shine. Kobo then takes it a step further by offering something called Advanced Notebooks. The Elipsa’s screen is slightly larger at 10.3 compared to the Scribe’s 10.2. This makes the Scribe’s 300dpi screen much sharper and crisper than the Elipsa’s 227dpi. In comparison, the Kindle Scribe only has four pen types in five sizes just in black. Although both Kobo and Kindle use e-ink screens, the Scribe’s screen has a higher resolution and screen density than the Elipsa 2E. There are then five pen types, each available in five sizes (or writing thickness) and in five shades of black and gray on the Elipsa. So what does it have that the Kindle Scribe doesn’t? To start, there’s 20 page templates to choose from in the Basic Notebooks on the Kobo versus 18 on the Kindle. Admittedly the writing features are identical to the older Elipsa, but the newer model is faster and more responsive than its predecessor. And that’s where the Kobo Elipsa 2E comes in. An E Ink writing tablet is worth it only if you’re planning to make good use of the features on board, especially since these larger ereaders cost a pretty penny.
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