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

We’re already seeing nice offers land on Amazon units just like the Kindle Scribe forward of Prime Day subsequent week, which is sensible because it’s an Amazon occasion. It’s attainable we’ll see much more Kindle offers arrive quickly, but it surely’s much less sure what sort of reductions — if any — we’ll see on e-readers from rivals like Kobo. Fortunately, if you happen to don’t need an Amazon e-reader, Rakuten Kobo has launched a brand new sale, dropping its top-notch Kobo Elipsa 2E right down to an all-time low of $349.99 ($50 off) if you buy it direct from Rakuten Kobo. It’s also possible to decide it up for a similar worth at Amazon or Goal by way of a third-party vendor.

I spent a variety of time testing each the Kindle Scribe and the Kobo Elipsa 2E, and finally Kobo’s is my favourite large-screen e-book reader for taking notes. For one, you may really write immediately on any web page — which permits for a extra intuitive note-taking expertise — whereas the Scribe solely helps you to immediately annotate choose Kindle titles. Furthermore, it might precisely convert handwriting into typed textual content whereas exporting notebooks and — in contrast to the Scribe — when you’re writing inside a pocket book. The ad-free e-reader additionally boasts double the storage (32GB) because the entry-level Kindle Scribe and options an awesome choice of pen kinds (and shades).

The primary draw back is that the Elipsa 2E doesn’t natively help Kindle books, although it does help many different file codecs (EPUB, EPUB3, CBZ, FlePub, and so on…). Plus, if you happen to’re prepared to take a position slightly additional effort and time, there are methods to transform your assortment so you may nonetheless learn your Kindle library out of your Kobo.