The Kobo Stylus is an eReader game-changer. And naturally, it delivers stellar battery life. The Elipsa display is an E Ink Carta 1200 touchscreen with a resolution of 1404 x 1872 pixels (or 227ppi).īecause it’s E Ink, the display is glare-free and looks just as good outdoors in the bright sun as it does indoors. It’s tablet-sized, but at 7.6mm and 383 grams, it’s thinner and far lighter than most tablets. The Kobo Elipsa takes big screens to the next level with a 10.3-inch display. Hardcore readers loved the Kobo Forma and its biggest-in-class 8-inch display. That’s because the Elipsa combines a super-sized 10.3-inch E Ink display with a digital stylus. Not the app you type in, but the paper version so many people still prefer to write in using a pen. It’s also aimed squarely at anyone who wants the convenience of being able to mark up a digital document without worrying about battery life or glare. The new Kobo Elipsa is the ultimate eReader for these readers. And they interact with the book, jotting notes in margins. People who don’t just pick up a book when they’re on vacation, they read all the time. They’re more expensive, and I don’t think their ebook app is as good as Kobo’s, but when it comes to PDFs they’re hard to beat.Īt some point maybe KOReader will get ported to the Kobo Elipsa to add more PDF features like I showed on the Kobo Aura One a few years back.Canada’s Kobo has a well-deserved reputation for designing eReaders that appeal to hardcore readers. It’s not a bad option if you can live without things like margin-cropping and contrast adjustment, but if you need something more advanced Onyx’s ereaders add a lot more features. Overall the Kobo Elipsa is a rather basic PDF reader in its current state. Performance is better than earlier Kobo models, even if some software features are lacking. Other than that I had no issues testing ten or so different PDFs on the Elipsa. On one PDF I encountered a bug where writing would disappear when turning pages, but it still showed up on the annotations list. You can’t change pen types, adjust line sizes or use different colors when writing on PDFs like you can with the dedicated Notebook app. With PDFs the writing style is very limited. t’s also worth noting you can’t add typed text notes to PDFs like you can regular ebooks, and Kobo makes certain to note that you cannot annotate PDFs with DRM or certain annotation restrictions. The Kobo Elipsa can export notes from the Notebook app using Dropbox or a computer. The larger screen helps some with not having margin cropping, but it can still be a problem at times. The Kobo Elipsa also has a rotation sensor and can be used in landscape mode to help increase the text size without zooming. PDFs vary so much from one to the next, though, so it greatly depends on the type of PDF files you read and how large the margins are to begin with. Update: They finally added a zoom lock feature with a software update to keep the zoom level from resetting with every page. The problem is once zoomed in it will default to the top left corner of every page when turning pages, so you have to manually pan every page to re-center it, which makes it difficult to work with PDFs that have large margins. Once zoomed in you can pan around the page the response can be a little jittery but it works okay. There’s a custom zoom dial to zoom in on a PDF, and you can use pinch-zooming as well, or double-tap to zoom in and out. Update: Annotations can be exported by transferring the PDF back to your computer. However, there are still three key features the Kobo Elipsa lacks when it comes to reading PDFs: margin cropping, contrast adjustment, and annotations export. When reading PDFs all the main features are there as you’d expect, including active hyperlinks, bookmarks, table on contents, search, you can lookup words in the dictionary, scan pages by holding down in the corners, and there’s a list that keeps track of all your annotations.
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