![]() ![]() Kobo has also introduced a Kobo Plus unlimited book subscription for $8 a month (or $10 a month, for both audiobooks and word books) that will compete with Amazon's $10-a-month Kindle Unlimited service. As with the Elipsa and the Scribe, Amazon usually offers one or two features more than comparable Kobo devices do and undercuts Kobo a bit on price. The Elipsa 2E will compete with the Scribe, but it also has Kindle Oasis competitors in the Sage and Libra 2 the Clara 2E competes with the Paperwhite and the Kobo Nia goes up against the basic $100 Kindle. Bluetooth wireless headphones or speaker required. Audiobooks available only in select countries. If you want to avoid Amazon's ecosystem, Rakuten's Kobo lineup probably comes the closest to replicating the diversity and utility of Amazon's hardware. Kobo Elipsa is your book, notebook, and bookstore combined, bundled with everything you need to make your ideas a reality. The Elipsa does have features that the Scribe doesn't offer, though, including a "lasso" tool for quickly grabbing and moving things you've written or drawn and integration with Dropbox and ("coming soon") Google Drive. Kobo doesn't offer other storage capacities or alternate pens, though it will sell you a case for an extra $70. The Scribe starts at $340, but that gets you a less-capable Basic Pen and just 16GB of storage stepping up to the 32GB Scribe and the Premium Pen raises the price to $390, a lot closer to the Elipsa. I definitely recommend it.The Elipsa's $400 price tag is OK for what you get. You can install Google Play apps, so you can install Kindle. The pdf reader is the best and most complete I have ever seen. I bought the 10.3" Boox Note Air and I'm very happy. My first ereader was an Amazon Kindle PW3. I read almost all real ebooks (epub or Kindle converted to epub) on a 7" 300 dpi Kobo Libra. However I bought it so as to have my local library Android App and the Elipsa wasn't out then. The PDF software on the Boyue Likebook Mars autocrops PDF margins. I use a 7.8" 300 dpi eink, a 10" LCD tablet or a 24" 2K monitor depending on the PDF. The 10" approx models usually do PDF and epub (ebooks), but the best are the same number of pixels as the 300 dpi 7.8" ereaders. The 13" models are mostly for PDF only and far more expensive than the Elipsa and not huge amount more pixels for the size. You can't make the font bigger like ebooks, only Zoom, then it doesn't fit. PDFs are electronic WYSIWG to proof or duplicate paper, so usually don't reflow at all. Real ebooks look like the pages are formated for your screen & resolution even if the font size and line spacing is changed. Otherwise, the Kobo Elipsa has been my favorite so far, albeit a pretty compromise and outrageously expensive for a reader. Tolino Epos: small and old: 1 GHz and 512 Mb RAM, far too little for PDF. Then it is better to wait until the technology becomes cheaper and can get by with 10 inches.Īmazon Oasis: small and rounded. It's a shame.ġ3 inches is the closest thing to A4, but spending so much money and then missing buttons, sensors, warranty, etc., is not so great for me. Pocketbook will soon be releasing a light version. And runs with Linux, which actually looks good, it's a shame that there is no update. (I would like to continue reading the latter on paper) □Īs an alternative, I found the Pocketbook Inkpad X, but it is older and has a poorer CPU, but buttons. Other things like weight, pen input, water resistance, color and how well you can read fiction with it are secondary. It has to be easy on the eyes, I guess that's all? I don't know how the blue light component plays a role. I have been struggling with severe eye pain for a while.Is that possible with Kobo? With Boox, 'Bouyo' etc. ![]() any connection to German libraries and bookshops.would be nice: navigation buttons, brightness sensor.Not all books I have are available as epub or mobi. I would also like to set up the reader in front of me so that I can take notes (in a notebook) □. For the programming books (it's the Humble Bundle, if anyone says something), 10 inches should be better than 8 inches, despite the same number of pixels. I haven't had an ereader yet, so I don't know how well the reflow works. 10 inch screen so that I can read the books as faithfully as possible.I've read my way through here and elsewhere to find a suitable ereader. ![]()
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