Kobo’s Elipsa 2E, our favorite e-reader for taking notes, has hit its best price yet

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We’re already seeing large deals onshore connected Amazon devices similar the Kindle Scribe up of Prime Day adjacent week, which makes consciousness arsenic it’s an Amazon event. It’s imaginable we’ll spot adjacent much Kindle deals get soon, but it’s little definite what benignant of discounts — if immoderate — we’ll spot connected e-readers from rivals similar Kobo. Thankfully, if you don’t privation an Amazon e-reader, Rakuten Kobo has launched a caller sale, dropping its top-notch Kobo Elipsa 2E down to an all-time debased of $349.99 ($50 off) when you acquisition it nonstop from Rakuten Kobo. You tin besides prime it up for the aforesaid terms astatine Amazon oregon Target via a third-party seller.

I spent a batch of clip investigating some the Kindle Scribe and the Kobo Elipsa 2E, and yet Kobo’s is my favourite large-screen ebook scholar for taking notes. For one, you tin really constitute straight connected immoderate leafage — which allows for a much intuitive note-taking acquisition — whereas the Scribe lone lets you straight annotate prime Kindle titles. Moreover, it tin accurately person handwriting into typed substance portion exporting notebooks and — dissimilar the Scribe — portion you’re penning within a notebook. The ad-free e-reader besides boasts treble the retention (32GB) arsenic the entry-level Kindle Scribe and features a large enactment of pen styles (and shades).

The main downside is that the Elipsa 2E doesn’t natively enactment Kindle books, though it does enactment galore different record formats (EPUB, EPUB3, CBZ, FlePub, etc...). Plus, if you’re consenting to put a small other clip and effort, determination are ways to person your postulation truthful you tin inactive work your Kindle room from your Kobo.

The Kobo Elipsa 2E is an ad-free 10.3-inch e-reader you tin constitute connected with the included stylus. It offers a full big of utile features, similar the quality to person handwriting to typed substance and a large enactment of pen types.

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