![]() ![]() Clearly it has addressed a need that is not addressed by other devices. It should have to compete with the dedicated notetakers. The notepad also needs a bit more features, but only to make is a more solid and flexible note taker, not to become an art drawing platform. They would do better in improving the PDF handling and exporting and book annotation by offering more features in that direction. I think its strength is being able to combine both reading and annotating in one device. It shouldn’t push the note taking and drawing since for now those are its weakest points compared to other more dedicated and better established note takers. I do think Kobo is not really sure how to market the Elipsa. Especially for our studies as we are furthering our teaching with more certificates. I don’t intentend to replace my Kindle as it has the features that I use (portability, great online support from Amazon, audio, etc) but I expect us to use it for managing PDFs. We can see ourselves being able to use these as teachers. On the other hand I am really considering getting an elipsa for both my wife and I as it seems to have a good combination of simple note taking and annotating on PDFs. I’m the annoying Kindle fanboy that loves my Kindle Basic. If you purchased the Kobo Elipsa or if you’re considering it, what made you decide to get one? Was it more for the note-taking aspects or because of the larger E Ink screen for reading? Or a combination of both?įiled Under: Kobo Tagged With: kobo elipsa It will be interesting to see if the Kobo Elipsa turns out to be a successful product for Kobo. ![]() They can’t make money selling notes to people so the only way they make money off of that is on hardware sales, and the Kobo Elipsa is one of the least expensive e-notes on the market at $399 with a cover, so it doesn’t exactly seem like a highly-profitable venture. The only problem with that is Kobo is strictly an ebook company. Perhaps they don’t think there’s a very large market for 10-inch ereaders but after seeing the success of the Remarkable and Onyx Note devices they wanted to get into the E Ink note-taking market as well. That’s why I find it a bit surprising that Kobo seems to be marketing it more as a note-taking device than a large format ereader. To read ebooks (and other content like comics) on a larger screen, with the option to add handwritten notes and highlights to ebooks using the stylus.Īt this point, as noted in my Kobo Elipsa review, the device is best as an ereader because of Kobo’s well-developed ebook software, but there’s room for improvement when it comes to the note-taking and PDF aspects. To read and annotate PDFs (but currently with no option to export, Kobo is seriously neglecting this segment of the market).ģ. For the note-taking and drawing features.Ģ. I’m surprised they aren’t also making more of a point to market it to people who want an ereader with a large E Ink screen for reading larger form content like PDFs, comics, manga, magazines, and just people who want a larger screen for reading regular ebooks.įor the most part I think there are three main reasons why someone would want to buy a Kobo Elipsa:ġ. ![]()
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