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Originally Posted by Cootey
I find the heated disdain for the Elipsa fascinating. It’s clearly designed to be a note taker more than an eReader. It’s targeted to a completely different market. The re:Markable proved that there is a market for low power, editing & note taking devices. ...
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Not really disdain (at least not on my part) — more surprise. For me, the main reason I would buy a note taker / eReader is to mark-up programming or text books. These usually come with DRM PDF and, apparently, the Elipsa mark-up feature doesn't work with DRM PDFs. Sometimes text books come in standard ePub, but (again, apparently) the Elipsa mark-up feature doesn't work with standard ePubs either. A PocketBook will allow mark-up for any format (except DjVu) and will allow you to save the marked text to images (basically selected area screen grabs). I realize that the PocketBooks are not advertised as note takers (and would be mechanically inferior to the Elipsa), but it seems like the Elipsa could at least do as much with DRM PDFs and standard ePubs. Also, if I remember correctly, there's no way to save these marked-up notes anywhere but on the Elipsa — that, particularly, seems like a very odd limitation.