We think this Kobo has nailed much of what you might want a sizeable digital eReader for, but some things need work, and they might surprise you.įor instance, there’s the idea of a dark mode that flips the black and white colour so that black is more dominant, helping you to read in low light. It’s super handy, just like that inclusion of Bluetooth. your eReader, the Elipsa 2E will hold the pen all the same. The edges of the tablet are even magnetised to hold that stylus, so even if you don’t opt for a case to protect.
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Simply load them up and jot away, and if you like, in those off times you’re not scribbling and studying, you can listen to audiobooks using the Bluetooth connection, as well. It sounds ideal for students and anyone studying, as it could replace the scores of books you might have to rely on, especially if you can find them on Kobo’s eBook store, or alternatively, get a bunch of PDFs and ePUB files, which this supports, as well. That’s a great inclusion, and immediately makes the Elipsa 2E that much more useful for notes and studying, while marrying it with excellent note-taking skills with the included pages and pages you have for digital writing. Anyone who remembers working away on notes during high school or uni will immediately remember the notes they left in the margins, and wonder who has them now. It’s actually surprising how much poor handwriting the Elipsa 2E tolerates, and managed to turn this writer’s chicken scratch into something legible, an observation that surprised him greatly.īeyond the note-taking and scribbling, you can also write on any books you have, which makes note taking just that little bit easier, and more like jotting notes down in a reference book. The Kobo Stylus is like your typical stylus in that it can write and draw in a digital notebook, and there’s even a digital rubber on the back so you can quickly erase things you didn’t mean to jot down.īut it can also be used for drawings and scribbles, and will translate most of what you write if you double tap the text you’ve written. It’s all a touchscreen, of course, just like any other tablet or eReader these days, which means you can touch sides of pages to turn to the next one, or really touch anything else, because you can also buy books to read them directly on the Elipsa, as well.īut the Kobo Elipsa 2E comes with another trick: it features a pen, and a rather nifty one at that. The screen’s big size accommodates a 1404×1872 resolution, an unorthodox res that can accomodate a sharp 227 pixels per inch, and thanks to its book-like aspect ratio, means you can read upright in portrait mode or rotate it on its side to fit more pages on the screen.
Inside, there’s a quad-core chip to handle the heavy lifting, 32GB of storage for heaps of books and notes, support for 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi 5 - likely because text and eBook files don’t tend to need the even faster WiFi 6 - and support for Bluetooth, USB Type C charging, a single button just under the Type C port to turn the eReader on and off, and a warm ComfortLight front-lighting system. And here we are with version 2E (we don’t know why Kobo calls its products “2E”, but this isn’t the first).Ī 10.3 inch eReader, the Elipsa 2E uses a monochromatic black and white electronic ink screen like every other Kobo model, except one sized to be much, much bigger, with a textured back to let you hold it all too easily. Last year, Amazon announced it was entering big-screen eReaders, and so with the launch of the Kindle Scribe, Rakuten’s Kobo Elipsa suddenly makes sense. Kobo has been trudging about this category for a few years now, but few have cared before its biggest rival took a stab at it all.
Not quite an ellipse or even an eclipse, the Elipsa is Kobo’s stab at the big eReader, and one you might have seen before.
Armed with a neat digital pen stylus and a solid design, the Kobo Elipsa 2E is a great Kindle competitor you may want to consider.
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