Elipsa New Kobo (N604) [Elipsa - ed.]

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by Mercador

Yeah, I wonder also how it will look with the confort light.

Dr Drib, I'll take a picture with a pocket enough big to fit that big one :P More seriously, I guess since I'm in Canadaland, I might get it early (it was the case with KA1) so obivously, if it's the case, I'll take a few pictures.

Thank you!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by anacreon

I've been looking at my library in Calibre: there are some 100 books I gave up on, either because they are PDFs unreadable comfortably even on the Forma, or they have many tables / graphs / maps.
And there are a few poetry collections with the translation on the facing page. I remember, but can't find it again, that it is possible to have two pages per page, which is a long given up on dream of mine.
Considering this, I plan to buy the Elipsa.

Yeah, my hope is that they've added a lot of features to this Kobo, specifically for reading PDFs.

But, who knows, maybe I'm living in another galaxy...

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer

My suspicion is that the choice of ComfortLight (one color) as opposed to ComfortLight Pro (adjustable bluish or orange tint) -- requiring more LEDs, and so more possible interference patterns -- was to avoid such problems. I'm sure it's tricky engineering to get an even sidelight across such a big screen.

This is not a problem for Boox and Likebook devices.

[Mercador]

Originally Posted by anacreon

I've been looking at my library in Calibre: there are some 100 books I gave up on, either because they are PDFs unreadable comfortably even on the Forma, or they have many tables / graphs / maps.
And there are a few poetry collections with the translation on the facing page. I remember, but can't find it again, that it is possible to have two pages per page, which is a long given up on dream of mine.
Considering this, I plan to buy the Elipsa.

I haven't read that but I guess the mod community might try to do something that allow that.

As for the Elipsa, same "need", I got several hardcover DnD books that are way too big to fit on a 8", I hope that 10" will be enough to be able to read them in bed.

[anacreon]

An interesting video in French on

Spoiler:

https://www.idboox.com/liseuse-numer...prise-en-main/

I had to restart it several times so I learned to note often where I was timewise.
I don't know what it will be like in reality, but on screen the 227 dpi doesn't seem a problem. The fact that it is not comfort light will be for reading at night. The tester said she found implementing dropbox complex, and she advised that there was a battery for the stylus at the bottom the box.

EDIT: and here is the good ereader video - just out of the box comment on the hardware, but more detailed on that.

Spoiler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lg9Qu5y6XI

[koboy]

Originally Posted by anacreon

An interesting video in French on

Spoiler:

https://www.idboox.com/liseuse-numer...prise-en-main/

I had to restart it several times so I learned to note often where I was timewise.
I don't know what it will be like in reality, but on screen the 227 dpi doesn't seem a problem. The fact that it is not comfort light will be for reading at night. The tester said she found implementing dropbox complex, and she advised that there was a battery for the stylus at the bottom the box.

EDIT: and here is the good ereader video - just out of the box comment on the hardware, but more detailed on that.

Spoiler:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lg9Qu5y6XI

going by how well The Kobo Elipsa is packaged my money's on it having a glass substrate rather than plastic. if i'm correct i'd advice to handle with care.

best wishes koboy

[lkmiller]

Hoping the cover can be attached to either end of the back part.

[christianbk]

Gizmodo review on the device is out - https://gizmodo.com/this-solid-e-ink...les-1846943966

[RZetlin]

The lack of comfort light hurts the reader.

[NiLuJe]

Originally Posted by christianbk

Gizmodo review on the device is out - https://gizmodo.com/this-solid-e-ink...les-1846943966

The fact that the reviewer keeps mentioning a Forma while showing a Libra is mildly infuriating.

[anacreon]

Originally Posted by lkmiller

Hoping the cover can be attached to either end of the back part.

I looked at another video where they said that it could.

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by RZetlin

The lack of comfort light hurts the reader.

It's hard for Kobo to create even lighting on 10.3 inches when they haven't even managed to do it on 8 inches.
The lighting at 8 inches are only bearable for me by reading in landscape mode

[anacreon]

I've just looked through Kobo's user guides for Elipsa.

First there is no mention whatsoever of being able to see two e book pages simultaneously, contrary to what I thought I'd seen somewhere.

Second I don't think I'll use the handwritten notes or the notebook, but the stylus should be very helpful for underlining and moving those handles, which I have much difficulty doing, especially with my rapidly worsening arthritis. And it could develop into a help for turning pages etc.

[lkmiller]

Originally Posted by anacreon

I looked at another video where they said that it could.

Ah, good -- thanks! And I see the Gizmodo article actually shows a picture of it attached with the thicker bezel on the left -- yay!

The lack of warm light doesn't bother me a bit. I seldom use the light on my ereaders let alone the warm light function. Since I wouldn't be using this to read in bed, I don't think I'd miss having it.

[RobertJSawyer]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

This is not a problem for Boox and Likebook devices.

Oh? These reports disagree:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/c...ghting_nova_3/