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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 also 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, but it surely’s additionally costly. The gadget’s premium all-metal physique, backlit colour E Ink show, and improved stylus are significant enhancements over what you get on the reMarkable 2. They’re additionally all about to get costlier because of tariffs within the US. reMarkable introduced in early April that it plans on elevating the costs of its merchandise in Could to assist account for the additional price the tariffs will apply.
Modifications like which are simply one among a number of causes to assume twice about shopping for new electronics proper now, however they’re additionally a superb alternative to consider options. You will get a reasonably comparable expertise to the reMarkable Paper Professional on the Kobo Elipsa 2E, which isn’t solely cheaper, but in addition ceaselessly obtainable refurbished. The E Ink pill is an e-reader first, however in case you personal it already or may justify selecting it up used, this is 4 the reason why it’d 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 supply massive screens
One of many greatest enhancements the reMarkable Paper Professional gives 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 might nonetheless show paperwork with out too many points.
The one benefit you do get on the reMarkable Paper Professional is that its massive display can even show pictures in colour because of 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 turn into hotter late at evening, 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 will have direct entry to cloud storage
You possibly can join the Elipsa 2E to 2 completely different cloud storage companies (Google Drive and Dropbox) to simply add paperwork and recordsdata to the pill, or get your notes off it. You too can join your Kobo to your laptop and instantly drag and drop recordsdata on to it that approach. The reMarkable Paper Professional offers you a number of extra choices for getting content material onto the pill which are value being conscious of.
For one, the Paper Professional helps Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox, which implies 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, instantly from a desktop or cellular app. For a easy strategy 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 helps 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 gives with Pocket, a save-it-for-later service that is obtainable 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 also be an awesome e-reader
It is laborious to beat library books
The reMarkable Paper Professional can learn EPUB recordsdata, some of the frequent file codecs you will discover eBooks in, but it surely would not have any connection to current eBook shops, which implies any e book you learn on the Paper Professional must be added (and presumably transformed) manually. Notably, the Paper Professional additionally would not supply a strategy to learn library books, which guidelines out a preferred free strategy to get studying materials.
You will 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) instantly on the E Ink pill. Which means you’ve a number of methods to get eBooks in your Elipsa 2E with out having to select up one other gadget. Certain, the Kobo Retailer is not as massive or diversified as Amazon’s Kindle Retailer, but it surely’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 a bit of work you may set your individual customized screensavers and even add new studying apps.
Notice-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) supply two predominant methods to seize your notes: Fundamental Notebooks and Superior Notebooks. Fundamental Notebooks supply 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 whenever you transfer and resize issues.
It gives 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 supply the identical degree of stylus-based enhancing instruments or formatting choices — except you convey your individual PDF.
I admire the magnificence and ease of what the reMarkable Paper Professional gives, however I am not going to go up with 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 sturdy whenever you evaluate it to most different choices on the market. I admire the magnificence and ease of what the reMarkable Paper Professional gives, however I am not going to go up with the ability to search via my handwritten notes.
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If the reMarkable Paper Professional featured common search, it could be near-perfect
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A succesful, stylus-friendly e-reader is likely to be all you want
The reMarkable Paper Professional is a superbly designed gadget and one which feels particularly laborious to place down given how a lot it prices. When you do not plan on rebuilding your workflow round it, although, you is likely to be higher off with one thing a lot less complicated. 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 relation to note-taking, too.
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Kobo Elipsa 2E
Kobo’s Elipsa 2E is an e-reader initially, but it surely’s versatile note-taking options and quick access to library books make it nice for almost anybody.
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reMarkable Paper Professional
reMarkable’s Paper Professional has an 11.8-inch colour 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 in case you’re deeply entrenched in Amazon’s ecosystem, it is value contemplating, however I desire the relative openness of the Kobo and the way simply it lets me obtain free books. For extra info on getting free books on your e-reader, try Pocket-lint’s information, and in case you’re interested in note-taking tablets on the whole, Pocket-lint has a checklist of among the greatest choices on the market that you need to browse.
