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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 a lot 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 system’s premium all-metal physique, backlit shade 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 Might to assist account for the additional price the tariffs will apply.
Modifications like which can be simply one in all a number of causes to suppose twice about shopping for new electronics proper now, however they’re additionally alternative to consider options. You will get a fairly comparable expertise to the reMarkable Paper Professional on the Kobo Elipsa 2Ewhich isn’t solely cheaper, but in addition continuously accessible refurbished. The E Ink pill is an e-reader first, however in case you personal it already or may justify choosing it up used, here 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 provides you a big canvas for notes
Each units supply large screens
One of many greatest enhancements the reMarkable Paper Professional affords is a big, 11.8-inch display. It provides 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 could 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 photographs in shade because of the E Ink Gallery 3 tech reMarkable makes use of. You will not discover that possibility on the Kobo Elipsa 2E (you may 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 change into hotter late at evening, one thing you will not get on the Paper Professional.
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Kobo makes it simple to switch paperwork, recordsdata, and articles
You will have direct entry to cloud storage
You may 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 straight drag and drop recordsdata on to it that means. The reMarkable Paper Professional provides you just a few extra choices for getting content material onto the pill which can be price being conscious of.
For one, the Paper Professional helps Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox, which suggests you may technically get extra choices than on the Elipsa 2E. The reMarkable companion app makes it fairly simple so as to add recordsdata to a Paper Professional wirelessly, straight from a desktop or cell app. For a easy method 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 allows 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 affords with Pocket, a save-it-for-later service that is accessible nearly all over the place, makes it equally simple so as to add articles, and in my expertise, it does a a lot 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 ideal e-reader
It is arduous to beat library books
The reMarkable Paper Professional can learn EPUB recordsdata, some of the widespread file codecs you may discover eBooks in, but it surely does not have any connection to present eBook shops, which suggests any ebook you learn on the Paper Professional must be added (and probably transformed) manually. Notably, the Paper Professional additionally does not supply a method to learn library books, which guidelines out a preferred free method to get studying materials.
You will get the precise reverse expertise on the Kobo Elipsa 2E, which provides 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) straight on the E Ink pill. Which means you will have a number of methods to get eBooks in your Elipsa 2E with out having to choose up one other system. Certain, the Kobo Retailer is not as large or diversified as Amazon’s Kindle Retailer, but it surely’s complement if the library does not have what you want, and it sells audiobooks too, one thing the reMarkable Paper Professional cannot even play.
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With slightly work you’ll be able to set your individual customized screensavers and even add new studying apps.
Notice-taking and note-editing is surprisingly versatile
You may convert your handwriting to textual content everytime you need
The Kobo Elipsa 2E (and different Kobo’s with stylus help) supply two principal methods to seize your notes: Primary Notebooks and Superior Notebooks. Primary Notebooks supply the templates, pen choices and highlights you would possibly anticipate and are much like what the reMarkable Paper Professional defaults to. Superior Notebooks go additional, providing the power 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 affords much more flexibility than the reMarkable Paper Professional’s notebooks, which may convert a web page to typed textual content, and acknowledge particular shapes for creating diagrams, however in any other case does not supply the identical degree of stylus-based enhancing instruments or formatting choices — until you deliver your individual PDF.
I recognize the class and ease of what the reMarkable Paper Professional affords, however I am not going to go up having the ability to search by way of my handwritten notes.
On the Kobo Elipsa 2E I can convert particular person traces or phrases to sort 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 if you evaluate it to most different choices on the market. I recognize the class and ease of what the reMarkable Paper Professional affords, however I am not going to go up having the ability to search by way of my handwritten notes.
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If the reMarkable Paper Professional featured common search, it might 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 system and one which feels particularly arduous to place down given how a lot it prices. For those who 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 relating to note-taking, too.
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Kobo Elipsa 2E
Kobo’s Elipsa 2E is an e-reader in the beginning, 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 shade E Ink display, backlighting, and vastly improved stylus for taking notes and studying paperwork.
Arguably, you might get an analogous expertise from the Kindle Scribeand in case you’re deeply entrenched in Amazon’s ecosystem, it is price contemplating, however I choose the relative openness of the Kobo and the way simply it lets me obtain free books. For extra info on getting free books to your e-reader, take a look at Pocket-lint’s information, and in case you’re inquisitive about note-taking tablets basically, Pocket-lint has a checklist of a few of the greatest choices on the market that you need to browse.
