Elipsa 2E If you have one, is it worth the price tag?

[sydmalicious]

I honestly scoff at the fact the whole package is $350. The Scribe is < $100 than the Elipsa 2E. I really want to keep it Kobo and I do write marginalia in most of my technical books so having something like this would be a boon to me. However... $350?

Have you found it worth the price?

[Aleron Ives]

It really depends on your use case. The writing experience on the Scribe is far superior, but you're trapped in Amazon's walled garden. There have been multiple threads lately about how to use a Scribe that isn't registered, since Amazon deliberately cripples devices that don't talk to the mothership.

Your profile says you have the Sage, so if you find writing on that to be tolerable, you'll probably like the Elipsa, as you get the Kobo software in a bigger form factor.

[Quoth]

The Sage is better than the Elipsa for reading epub novels and notebooks.
The Sage has more pixels than the Elipsa.

I have original Elipsa and Sage. I don't use the Elipsa at all now and don't use the Nebo notebooks. Nebo is far far better on the TCL Nxtpaper 11, than Wacom on reMarkable (which I had) or Nebo on iPad or Nebo notebooks on Sage or Elipsa. The Nxtpaper 11 is also far better to annotate PDFs with pen and that can convert to real text layer on board.

The Scribe needs Amazon and uses USB MTP (which is horrible). You either like Wacom or don't. I've had 3 kinds of Wacom and don't.

Edit
The Nxtpaper 11 under €250 ex pen (which is USI 2.0 rechargable). It's not quite as good a mono eink for novels, but close.

I nearly bought a Scribe (I have a PW3 and had an Oasis 2 for a while), but the more I read here the less I liked the idea of a Scribe.

I'll get a Nxtpaper 14 pro if ever available to here.

[Quoth]

Short answer:
No point to an Elipsa or Scribe if you have the Sage and either model of Kobo pen (two models of MS Surface 3 party pen without BT/One note work on Sage and Elipsa, and also Sketchpad on Libra 2, but no pen on original Libra).

[DrChiper]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I'll get a Nxtpaper 14 pro if ever available to here.

I think EMEA is out of luck, I found this here:

Models coming to select regions, starting with the US (not available in EMEA).

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by DrChiper

I think EMEA is out of luck, I found this here:

Yes, strange. Well, I'll wait and see. Customs and shipping from USA or Asia is pain (esp. USA shipping and customs is on price inc shipping and VAT is on total of everything, inc customs or process charges etc).

[jlinear]

Originally Posted by sydmalicious

I honestly scoff at the fact the whole package is $350. The Scribe is < $100 than the Elipsa 2E.

If I am not mistaken the Elipsa 2E comes with 32GB. The comparable Scribe is much closer in price.

[Quoth]

Yes, the Elipsa and Elipsa 2 are 32 G byte and USB Mass Storage (so easy to manage), the Scribe is USB MTP.

The Elipsa noteboooks and annotations work with a fake email sign-in or SideloadedMode=true (the dictionaries and notebook resources will still update by WiFi). Scribe is crippled without working registration to Amazon.

PDFs can be annotated on Elipsa and copied to & fro with USB, if not protected PDFs (Ghostscript on computer can make an unprotected copy). PDFs on Scribe need to go via Amazon server and Wifi back as fixed layout KFX, with then annotations emailed via Amazon, for full functionality.

The 32 G Scribe is £379.99 (unless you have a Prime subscription)
The 32 G Elipsa 2 is £349.99 without any subscription (Amazon or direct from Kobo, both free shipping).

Or Kobo has direct the original Elipsa (only major difference is colour of front light doesn't adjust) for £299 inc sleep cover and pen. (€349,99)

You can roll back FW on Elipsa, not Scribe.

However I nearly bought the Scribe because it's 300 dpi, after I'd bought the Elipsa and after I bought the Sage.
But I didn't because essentially anything other than reading ebooks or PDFs has to go via Amazon's servers. The note taking is more proprietary and less functional than Sage or Elipsa.
Also I decided that the only advantage of Scribe was slightly higher DPI for PDFs and it still wouldn't be good enough for some due to limitations of eink.

So I got a TCL Nxtpaper 11 (10.9″) instead (€178, now €222) and it's got 128 G Flash and SD card slot for at least 1 T (I have 256G SD card).
All my annotated PDFs from Sage and Elipsa simply copied by file manager from USB and work with ANY PDF viewer.
All the basic and Advanced notebooks simply copied via USB and all imported perfectly to Nebo for Android (also work on iOS). The Android Nebo also imports PDF with conversion to real text layer on PDF (can be exported on many PDF programs as real text, or viewed in place, or free hand annotation as per Xodo free version on Android.

Pocketbook (free version) on Android on Nxtpaper 11 is far better for viewing PDFs, either one page old scanned mags & books, or two page proof for POD than Elipsa or reMarkable. Xodo simple to free form annotate PDF or see added OCR or Nebo text on its own.

Nebo on Android, unlike on Elipsa/Sage, does real time preview of handwriting and text and is hugely better. Also on Android the Google Gboard keyboard does real time handwriting to text with finger (or better is Pen) in ANY text input application. The 8000 mAH battery means adequate usage between fast charge (up to 20W?), they claim 10 hours of video streaming. Certainly for ebooks, PDF and audio as much as many ereaders.
See reviews https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B0C3MG289R

So Sage for mono pdf novels and PDF instructions that fit (more pixels than Elipsa) and a few smaller format PDF novels (crop per document), and the Nxtpaper 11 for everything else. Honor and Huawei may have similar tablets. I saw an HP all-in-one desktop nearly as good, and my 23.5″ LG 4K HDR monitor is nearly as good.

I now have every PDF, wordprocessor doc (LO viewer for Android) and ebook ever (dating to 1994) on the SD card. The only negatives of the Nxtpaper 11 are it's Android (13 actually) and USB-MTP, but the MTP works with Calibre without me disabling it for the Filesystem (Linux), simply by selecting Unmount on the icon. The transfer is faster than my USB SD card reader. Though Pocketbook app does OPDS via WiFi with the Calibre Content server.