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Originally Posted by tomsem
That's nice on the Kobos, I wondered why there were no toolbars. And do the converted objects get mapped to corresponding PDF annotations?
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The Kobo Sage / Elipsa /Elipsa 2 is like two separate products. The Advanced Notebooks export Word, HTML or plain text. Word format export allows any mix of handwriting, converted text, check boxes (which can be ticked later), conversion to maths, conversion to scaleable & editable shapes on the Kobo (a bit like Visio) that can have converted handwriting and freehand drawing. The Basic Notebook is a bit like the reMarkable Notebook, no local conversion, but more limited drawing tools than the reMarkable (which is more like a fancy paint program than notebook). The basic notebook has backgrounds and can export images only, as PDF, PNG or JPEG, either current page or entire notebook.
The 4.36.x also adds subfolder creation via the New dialogue.
There are tool bars. You can't type text directly (recently added to reMarkable), even with a BT Keyboard, unless it's changed in 4.36 (or 4.37 beta). A BT keyboard will let you enter names of notebooks/folders and page up/down.
The other "product" in the Kobo Sage / Elipsa / Elipsa 2 is the My Books & Search, though it's possible to have imported images and view, it's basically epub/kepub or PDF. This is exactly the same as other Kobos except Pen "annotation" is added.
PDFs and ebooks are treated differently on all Kobos. There is no assurance that a PDF has a text layer (most of mine don't), so traditionally you highlighted with finger and annotated with real text. Touch keyboard, though all models with BT work with a BT keyboard.
The Pen models add two kinds of pen annotation:
1) On PDFs, is somewhat like annotation of any PDF on any platform with a digitiser stylus support and is like the reMarkable annotation of PDFs, it seems to add an image layer.
2) On ebooks you can use pen instead of finger to highlight (useful if you use a small display size of font zoom). Then you can annotate with real text* (touch keyboard or BT keyboard).
OR you can "handwrite" or draw directly on the ebook, but this creates annotations that can only be viewed, or screen captured (you can make the power button screen capture).
[*There are multiple ways to export real text annotations, which include the highlighted portion, date, chapter, position. This export includes bookmarks and highlight only selections.
I did have a reMarkable and a gen 2 Oasis. Still have a Kindle DXG, KK3, PW3 and buy Amazon ebooks. I was annotating proofs on the Kindle before switching to the Kobo.
I need to copy back text of ebook annotations, so the Pen is useless for ebooks directly, but if you create a matching/relevant name Advanced Notebook and simply annotate 1, 2, 3 etc for highlights, then swipe down in ebook shows last 3 previous things opened (or unfortunately added to the ereader), so you can hop to the Advanced notebook to handwrite loads and optionally convert to text (which can be edited on Kobo) and then export that as a docx or plain text.
I only ever either put little notes on PDF manuals (no need to export) or mark up format (never content as that's proofed on epub) of a PDF for POD and can copy back, or view while correcting.
No internet services needed.
As an aside I have a Libra and Libra 2. Oddly the Libra 2 supports the Pen in the sketch book (hidden on Sage/Elipsa unless you devmodeon) and the sketches, like on all Kobos, appear in "My Books". Can't edit once you save/leave.
I was very close to buying a Kindle Scribe. I'm totally familiar with the regular Amazon Kindle system and the more I read about the note / annotation features (does zero for me for azw3 ebook proof reading) the more I realised it would not suit. I can see how the unique and totally proprietary Amazon system will suit some.