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Originally Posted by tschucha
Here's what I've found so far after two days usage. The most important thing on my list was the screen quality. To be honest the Kindle Scribe looked slightly better. But the operative word here is slightly. There isn't much difference at all. The Elipsa 2E screen is certainly good enough. Good enough may be an understatement, it is a nice screen. My belief is that the warmlight for night time reading on the Elipsa 2E is better than that of the Kindle Scribe. It certainly is more customizable. I may have been lucky but I have never had a problem with the light banding on any of my lighted eReaders. I didn't see any at all on either the Scribe or the Elipsa 2E. The Elipsa 2E has a body made of plastic which sounds cheaper but actually it has a much better feel. Maybe the weight distribution is more hand friendly or maybe the fact that the Elipsa is only 390 grams compared to 433 for the Scribe or maybe it's the plastic with texture on the back of the device but whatever it makes the Elipsa 2E a lot easier to hold and read. As always the Kobo user interface is far, far more customizable. It took nearly no time at all to copy my books onto the device and get it set up to my liking. I struggled and struggled with the Kindle Scribe and just couldn't get the device feeling the way I wanted it to feel. I am far happier with the Elipsa 2E.
You'll notice that I haven't written a word about the note taking abilities of either device. That's because I use the them as an eReader exclusively. If you use these things as note taking devices I'm not a good one to make recommendations.
Final thoughts. I've been looking for the perfect eReader since the days of the first Kindle. It doesn't exist yet. What I think I've learned from the Scribe and Elipsa 2E is that the perfect eReader is going to be bigger than the Sage (8") and a bit smaller than the Ellipsa (10.3"). Funny thing is that it may very well be that Amazon actually got it pretty close to right regarding screen size years ago with the Kindle DX with a 9.7" screen. It had an abysmal 150DPI screen and no lighting which was not bad for it's day but I suspect that somewhere between 9 and 9.7 inches would probably be the ideal screen size for an eReader at least for me. I'm liking that 10.3" Elipsa 2E screen very much though and it may be that 10.3" will end up being the perfect size. It just takes a little time to get used to all of that extra screen space.
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Originally Posted by talaivan
I have both the Scribe and Elipsa 2e, which I've been using for 4 days. In my opinion, the screen on the Elipsa is better than that on the Scribe -- text is easier to read, especially in dark mode. For some reason, the Scribe (like the Oasis) makes text look washed out in dark mode. And even in daylight mode, text is easier to read on the Elipsa. As Tschucha says, the Elipsa is easier to hold, the software works well, you don't have to give Amazon or other company access to your documents (like pdf's). The 2e is a wonderful improvement over the older Ellipse, which I also have. I'm very pleased with it.
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Excellent reviews. Thanks for sharing. I use Kindles, too, so the Scribe has been tempting. However, as you pointed out, tschucha, the Kindle Ui is atrocious. I love love LOVE my Kobos.
From what I see, I prefer how the Elipsa displays annotations, but as I posted in another thread, they can’t be exported for technical reasons. How is exporting of notes on the Kindle Scribe?