Kobo’s Elipsa 2E, a superb e-reader for taking notes, is right down to its greatest worth

Amazon may need launched a brand new Kindle Scribe earlier this month for $399.99, however after testing it, I nonetheless don’t suppose it could actually compete with its rivals. When you’re in search of a very good e-reader with extra helpful note-taking capabilities, the Kobo Elipsa 2E remains to be one among my favorites, and it’s right down to an all-time low of $349.99 ($50 off) at Amazon or Goal. Rakuten Kobo may even throw in $10 in credit score if you purchase a $50 present card, which you should utilize towards shopping for books or styli.

When you’re the kind of one who likes to scribble in margins whereas studying ebooks, you’ll seemingly want the Kobo Elipsa 2E. The Elipsa 2E enables you to straight write on e-book pages, taking notes in margins or wherever else you’d like, simply as you’ll on paper. The brand new Kindle Scribe enables you to straight write on pages, too, nevertheless it’s much more difficult and you’ll’t even circle phrases or phrases.

The Elipsa 2E additionally affords different useful options past only a extra pure note-taking expertise. It boasts double the storage (32GB) because the entry-level Kindle Scribe, for instance, and precisely converts handwriting into typed textual content sooner than the Scribe. The most important downside, in fact, is that it doesn’t natively assist Kindle ebooks, so that you’ll should convert your library if you wish to learn them out of your Kobo machine.