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anacreon · 06-26-2021, 02:45 AM

I'm very pleased with my Elipsa all in all. I have some gripes and a wish-list of features, but plain reading is a pleasure.
I had thought to use it only for PDFs and books with tables/maps and such, but I found a comfortable way to read and plan to load it also with all the books who would look better with a bigger page: since I have small very arthritic hands, I was struggling when holding it while reading, but I remembered one of my couches came with a big oblong plush cushion, which molds around anything. I moved it to my reading corner, put my feet on the ottoman, the cushion on my knees, the Elipsa on the cushion and I read for hours.

I haven't even looked at the block-notes, but I do find the stylus useful:

I had great difficulties moving the PDFs' zoom factor dot precisely before, now it's a cinch
idem with picking an item in a dense TOC
idem with moving the handles of a selection
but I wish I could use it to highlight within a kepub

Some other wishes / remarks

a number of my PDFs have been severely cropped to improve readability on smaller devices and would look much better if one could increase margins
many PDFs have been built for 6" devices and look ridiculous on 10". They would look perfect with two pages per screen (in landscape mode)
I would love the two pages per screen for kepubs too: my complete Garcia Lorca poems for instance is built for it, with the Spanish text on even pages and the English translation on the facing odd pages
some other poetry look bad whether kepub of PDFs: Pound's cantos look OK because the lines are long, but many other poems would look much better on two pages
I noticed the two pages per screen look good for epubs (it works only when at minimum pitch), but apparently it only works within each html page. Consequently, single pages are found on the left side, instead of the right as we are used to in books. I now regret eliminating all those "this page was left blank on purpose" from my PDFs.
I had problems with Dropbox, which I wanted to test, but found invasive. And it scrambled two of my books, so that it wasn't even enough to disconnect / reconnect to my Kobo account, or even restart it to eliminate the problem, but I had to restart manually, which meant reloading, which is always a painful process. I had several "damaged database", which were luckily solved by the disconnect/reconnect, and I suspect were due to some of those badly scanned internet archive PDFs.
I noted that for some PDFs every page turn generated a sort of hiccup, like the page widened then shrank.
First opening of big books is sometime very slow, but it is ok afterwards.

EDIT: When I write minimum pitch, I mean the dot positioned at the extreme left of the scale; the pitch resulting is a medium sort, very readable, nothing like what it looked like when I tested it on the 7" Libra.

06-26-2021, 02:45 AM	#582
anacreon Guru Posts: 978 Karma: 3475832 Join Date: May 2012 Location: France Device: Elipsa, Sage, Libra 2	I'm very pleased with my Elipsa all in all. I have some gripes and a wish-list of features, but plain reading is a pleasure. I had thought to use it only for PDFs and books with tables/maps and such, but I found a comfortable way to read and plan to load it also with all the books who would look better with a bigger page: since I have small very arthritic hands, I was struggling when holding it while reading, but I remembered one of my couches came with a big oblong plush cushion, which molds around anything. I moved it to my reading corner, put my feet on the ottoman, the cushion on my knees, the Elipsa on the cushion and I read for hours. I haven't even looked at the block-notes, but I do find the stylus useful: I had great difficulties moving the PDFs' zoom factor dot precisely before, now it's a cinch idem with picking an item in a dense TOC idem with moving the handles of a selection but I wish I could use it to highlight within a kepub Some other wishes / remarks a number of my PDFs have been severely cropped to improve readability on smaller devices and would look much better if one could increase margins many PDFs have been built for 6" devices and look ridiculous on 10". They would look perfect with two pages per screen (in landscape mode) I would love the two pages per screen for kepubs too: my complete Garcia Lorca poems for instance is built for it, with the Spanish text on even pages and the English translation on the facing odd pages some other poetry look bad whether kepub of PDFs: Pound's cantos look OK because the lines are long, but many other poems would look much better on two pages I noticed the two pages per screen look good for epubs (it works only when at minimum pitch), but apparently it only works within each html page. Consequently, single pages are found on the left side, instead of the right as we are used to in books. I now regret eliminating all those "this page was left blank on purpose" from my PDFs. I had problems with Dropbox, which I wanted to test, but found invasive. And it scrambled two of my books, so that it wasn't even enough to disconnect / reconnect to my Kobo account, or even restart it to eliminate the problem, but I had to restart manually, which meant reloading, which is always a painful process. I had several "damaged database", which were luckily solved by the disconnect/reconnect, and I suspect were due to some of those badly scanned internet archive PDFs. I noted that for some PDFs every page turn generated a sort of hiccup, like the page widened then shrank. First opening of big books is sometime very slow, but it is ok afterwards. EDIT: When I write minimum pitch, I mean the dot positioned at the extreme left of the scale; the pitch resulting is a medium sort, very readable, nothing like what it looked like when I tested it on the 7" Libra. Last edited by anacreon; 06-26-2021 at 04:08 AM.