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Originally Posted by HLS
I love how we can write on books but note taking is not that great. Boox note seems to be the best for note taking. Even the Kindle Scribe notes is better but otherwise Elipsa is great for write-on-books and they do have a lot of templates compared to kindle/boox
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Right. My complaint for now is that development on the elipsa, at least, is very slow.
I also noticed that with the Libra color, you have some options for annotating PDFs, like pen thickness and color. For some reason, the thickness option, at least, is not present on the elipsa 2e.
I am still happy with elipsa 2e based on the price I paid. However, I see much more unrealized potential on the software side that I wish was there. I imagine the future elipsa will be color (since that is the big thing. We see how many Libra Color posts there are versus elipsa posts). Also, since they are approaching the release of a new elipsa (per some unconfirmed sources), I can only wish that they develop the software more quickly and release quality updates similar to the one that was released last year (the update had enhanced "basic note-taking," including handwriting recognition and shape recognition).
I am going to use it for note taking also. Maybe if i have disposable money in coming months will buy a boox but i like the size (not the price) of remarkable paper pro. I will consider them. At least remarkable also has big software disadvantages (and there it seems by choice. Like you said lack of reading capability and no front light).
Anyway, the conclusion I come to every day is that it is not the worst note-taking ereader and is still usable for me. I use Obsidian mainly, so my notes should somehow end up there, and neither of the devices are that compatible (and the Boox will be slow), so I can only wish their software becomes better and better with significant improvements.
Like, there is this beta game Sudoku. How hard would it be for them to recognize handwriting and numbers to use the pen instead of the numpad (otherwise I'd use my mobile anyway)?
Anyway, I hope there is an active development team working on updating the software.
One other major disappointment I had was based on their website. I first thought that not having the pen options for annotating PDFs or ePubs was because of a bug. I went to support and they requested various ways of resetting until I stopped them at a factory reset. I went on my own research online and saw no video or screenshot of the Elipsa 2e with those options, leading me to believe it is a Libra Color exclusive feature. I expected support to know this and point it out rather than suggesting useless restarts and asking me to factory reset. They could have just opened a ticket or feature request with their developers and be done with it. I mentioned it to them and they wanted me to factory reset before submitting a ticket to their development team. It was a bit frustrating, and support should do better.