8/27/2023 0 Comments Kobo largest screen![]() Annotations made to ebooks on the Elipsa 2E are synced to Kobo’s cloud and accessible through the company’s website, but from my testing, only with ebooks downloaded from the company’s online book store. I’d like to see Kobo and Amazon, two companies already dependent on the cloud, introduce more robust ways to access content created on their e-notes on other devices. But as someone who recently said goodbye to Dropbox, I’m instead patiently waiting for Kobo’s promised Google Drive support to arrive. Its integrated Dropbox support is probably the best way to go, ensuring documents are synced to whichever of your devices has the Dropbox app installed. The Elipsa 2E can be connected directly to a PC with a USB-C cable to accomplish that, or notes can be emailed, but I find both to be clunky solutions. One area where most e-note devices can be improved is getting documents, particularly your self-written notebooks, off the tablet. Kindle and Kobo Still Have Room For Improvement I don’t think the writing experience is as good as what the reMarkable 2 or the Kindle Scribe offer, but it’s very close, and improved enough to make the Elipsa 2E an e-note I definitely recommend. Is it responsive enough so that the strokes you make with the stylus immediately appear on screen, or is there noticeable lag that makes the tablet feel like it’s struggling to keep up with your handwriting? Laggy stylus response was my biggest complaint with the original Elipsa, and while software updates improved the performance, the Elipsa 2E, thanks to a faster processor under the hood, feels really good to write with. The make or break feature for any e-note device is how the simulated pen on paper experience feels. It looks and feels much better than the eraser on the end of the Kindle Scribe’s stylus, even if there’s a small part of me worried it’s going to wear away over time like a real eraser - it won’t. Switching to the highlight text mode with the Elipsa 2E’s stylus is still done by pressing a shortcut button near the tip, but the second shortcut button found on the Elipsa’s stylus, which was used to switch to eraser mode, is now gone and replaced with a dedicated eraser button on the end of the 2E’s stylus that actually looks like a pencil eraser. The Kobo Elipsa 2E’s stylus (right) moves the eraser shortcut to the bottom of the stylus, making it look like an actual pencil eraser that feels better to use than the eraser button on the Kindle Scribe’s stylus (left). It worked well as both an e-note device and a large screen e-reader, but lacked Kobo’s ComfortLight PRO technology for making colour temperature adjustments on the screen’s lighting. One of the most compelling reasons to choose the original Kobo Elipsa over other e-notes available at the time, including the reMarkable 2, was that it came with direct access to Kobo’s online ebook store, which is stocked with over 1.3 million titles available for purchase. I don’t think devices like reMarkable 2, which is first and foremost a note-taking device, need them, but the Elipsa 2E also doubles as an excellent e-reader, and I personally find physical buttons a better alternative to tapping the screen to turn pages. ![]() One thing still missing from the Elipsa 2E, however, are physical page turn buttons. The back panel on the Elipsa 2E feels like it’s made from the same rubbery material, but is now finished with a textured pattern that’s easier to hold on to, while also making helping to hide fingerprints. The original Elipsa featured a rubberised surface, but with a smooth surface that limited grip, and collected greasy fingerprints. The other welcome upgrade, more useful to those who also plan to use the Elipsa 2E as an e-reader held in one hand, is the tablet’s back panel. Most of the time, I prefer to use e-readers and e-notes without the added bulk of a case, which means I’m often reaching for that button, and on the original Kobo Elipsa, it sat flush on the edge of the device and was often hard to find by feel alone. If you’re using a device with a folio style case that automatically wakes it when you open the lid, its power/sleep/wake button is more or less irrelevant until you want to completely turn it off. Two Small Elipsa Design Changes That Make a Big Difference The screen resolution is still limited to 227 PPI, syncing notes across devices could still use some polish, and I still think page turn buttons would be a welcome addition. The pen on paper experience feels more responsive, the addition of colour temperature adjustments on the screen lighting is a welcome upgrade, and the Kobo Stylus 2 feels better and more functional than the original. A super-sized Kobo e-reader featuring a 10.3-inch E Ink screen that can be used with a stylus for annotating books and documents, taking notes, or reading things like comic books and magazines that benefit from more screen real estate.
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