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- Kobo Elipsa 2E matches the reMarkable Paper Professional on a stunning variety of options.
- The Elipsa 2E has a big display, versatile note-taking options, and connections to cloud companies.
- The pill can be only a significantly better e-reader than the Paper Professional, even when reMarkable’s pill is extra premium.
The reMarkable Paper Professional is a wonderful E Ink pill, nevertheless it’s additionally costly. The gadget’s premium all-metal physique, backlit coloration E Ink show, and improved stylus are significant enhancements over what you get on the reMarkable 2. They’re additionally all about to get dearer due to tariffs within the US. reMarkable introduced in early April that it plans on elevating the costs of its merchandise in Might to assist account for the additional price the tariffs will apply.
Adjustments like which might be simply certainly one of a number of causes to suppose twice about shopping for new electronics proper now, however they’re additionally a superb alternative to consider options. You will get a fairly comparable expertise to the reMarkable Paper Professional on the Kobo Elipsa 2E, which isn’t solely cheaper, but additionally ceaselessly accessible refurbished. The E Ink pill is an e-reader first, however should you personal it already or may justify selecting it up used, this is 4 the reason why it would make you second guess splurging on a reMarkable Paper Professional.
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The Kobo Elipa 2E offers you a big canvas for notes
Each gadgets provide massive screens
One of many greatest enhancements the reMarkable Paper Professional presents is a big, 11.8-inch display. It offers you loads of room for taking notes, and it is a pure match for paperwork and PDFs, particularly if you wish to write within the margins. The Kobo Elipsa 2E’s display is smaller at 10.3-inches, however I’ve discovered it to be greater than sufficient for my note-taking and journaling functions. Whereas that additionally means it is extra sq., I’ve discovered that it will possibly nonetheless show paperwork with out too many points.
The one benefit you do get on the reMarkable Paper Professional is that its massive display may show photos in coloration due to the E Ink Gallery 3 tech reMarkable makes use of. You will not discover that choice on the Kobo Elipsa 2E (you will want to take a look at the smaller Kobo Libra Color for that), however you do get a robust, customizable backlit, which might be set to grow to be hotter late at night time, one thing you will not get on the Paper Professional.
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Kobo makes it straightforward to switch paperwork, recordsdata, and articles
You may have direct entry to cloud storage
You possibly can join the Elipsa 2E to 2 totally different cloud storage companies (Google Drive and Dropbox) to simply add paperwork and recordsdata to the pill, or get your notes off it. You can even join your Kobo to your pc and immediately drag and drop recordsdata on to it that approach. The reMarkable Paper Professional offers you a couple of extra choices for getting content material onto the pill which might be price being conscious of.
For one, the Paper Professional helps Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox, which suggests you will technically get extra choices than on the Elipsa 2E. The reMarkable companion app makes it fairly straightforward so as to add recordsdata to a Paper Professional wirelessly, immediately from a desktop or cell app. For a easy approach to save articles to learn on the Paper Professional, reMarkable additionally helps a easy browser extension that converts pages to PDFs and sends them to your pill.
reMarkable’s app additionally enables you to create typed notes and lists with out having to drag out your pill.
I believe the reMarkable companion app is an actual plus, however for my cash, the direct integration that Kobo presents with Pocket, a save-it-for-later service that is accessible nearly in all places, makes it equally straightforward so as to add articles, and in my expertise, it does a significantly better job of formatting them to learn on an e-reader that reMarkable’s PDF-conversion does.
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Kobo’s E Ink pill can be an amazing e-reader
It is exhausting to beat library books
The reMarkable Paper Professional can learn EPUB recordsdata, some of the widespread file codecs you will discover eBooks in, nevertheless it would not have any connection to current eBook shops, which suggests any ebook you learn on the Paper Professional should be added (and probably transformed) manually. Notably, the Paper Professional additionally would not provide a approach to learn library books, which guidelines out a well-liked free approach to get studying materials.
You may get the precise reverse expertise on the Kobo Elipsa 2E, which supplies you entry to the Kobo Retailer for buying new books and an integration with OverDrive (the library lending service you would possibly know higher as Libby) immediately on the E Ink pill. Which means you could have a number of methods to get eBooks in your Elipsa 2E with out having to select up one other gadget. Positive, the Kobo Retailer is not as massive or various as Amazon’s Kindle Retailer, nevertheless it’s a superb complement if the library would not have what you want, and it sells audiobooks too, one thing the reMarkable Paper Professional cannot even play.
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With somewhat work you possibly can set your personal customized screensavers and even add new studying apps.
Observe-taking and note-editing is surprisingly versatile
You possibly can convert your handwriting to textual content everytime you need
The Kobo Elipsa 2E (and different Kobo’s with stylus assist) provide two principal methods to seize your notes: Fundamental Notebooks and Superior Notebooks. Fundamental Notebooks provide the templates, pen choices and highlights you would possibly anticipate and are just like what the reMarkable Paper Professional defaults to. Superior Notebooks go additional, providing the flexibility to transform a web page or particular person line of your handwriting to typed textual content, add diagrams and equations, edit textual content after you’ve got written it, and reflow textual content if you transfer and resize issues.
It presents much more flexibility than the reMarkable Paper Professional’s notebooks, which might convert a web page to typed textual content, and acknowledge particular shapes for creating diagrams, however in any other case would not provide the identical degree of stylus-based enhancing instruments or formatting choices — until you deliver your personal PDF.
I recognize the class and ease of what the reMarkable Paper Professional presents, however I am not going to move up having the ability to search via my handwritten notes.
On the Kobo Elipsa 2E I can convert particular person strains or phrases to kind simply by circling them, erase phrases by scribbling over them, be part of or separate phrases with a stroke of my stylus, and even add headers and subheads simply with an underline. It is surprisingly strong if you evaluate it to most different choices on the market. I recognize the class and ease of what the reMarkable Paper Professional presents, however I am not going to move up having the ability to search via my handwritten notes.
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A succesful, stylus-friendly e-reader may be all you want
The reMarkable Paper Professional is a superbly designed gadget and one which feels particularly exhausting to place down given how a lot it prices. When you do not plan on rebuilding your workflow round it, although, you may be higher off with one thing a lot easier. After contemplating the 2 E Ink tablets collectively, I’ve discovered the Kobo Elipsa 2E to be extra handy in some key methods, with much more choices in the case of note-taking, too.
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Kobo Elipsa 2E
Kobo’s Elipsa 2E is an e-reader at the start, nevertheless it’s versatile note-taking options and easy accessibility to library books make it nice for nearly anybody.
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reMarkable Paper Professional
reMarkable’s Paper Professional has an 11.8-inch coloration E Ink display, backlighting, and vastly improved stylus for taking notes and studying paperwork.
Arguably, you possibly can get an analogous expertise from the Kindle Scribe, and should you’re deeply entrenched in Amazon’s ecosystem, it is price contemplating, however I want the relative openness of the Kobo and the way simply it lets me obtain free books. For extra data on getting free books to your e-reader, try Pocket-lint’s information, and should you’re interested by note-taking tablets usually, Pocket-lint has a record of among the finest choices on the market that it is best to browse.
