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

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

It's simple - you have a choice between light weight, bendable and poorer image compared to heavy, stiff and good image quality.

You have not once shown any sort of evidence that Mobious give a poorer image quality. We've already had a post saying that the contrast on the Forma is better then on the Oasis. This was done with proper measuring and not just someone's eyes.

You just keep saying that Mobious is poor quality yet I've not seen any sort of evidence other then your statement.

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You just keep saying that Mobious is poor quality yet I've not seen any sort of evidence other then your statement.

Which evidence do you want?
Microscope photos of blur areas?
It's enough for me that I got a better replacement for 8 inches.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

Which evidence do you want?
Microscope photos of blur areas?
It's enough for me that I got a better replacement for 8 inches.

I did a search for "bumpy" and "lumpy". All I found was a couple of reviews that complained the Boox Note display was bumpy in places. From what I read, this was not complaining about the display module but the front layer being bumpy. There were also complaints that when the Boox Note was unpacked, there were scratches on the display.

[Cootey]

The only problem I've run into with my Elipsa order is that I forgot to apply PERKOPOLIS at checkout. 🙄 That's $40 I'm working with Kobo to get back. LOL

[Cootey]

Originally Posted by anacreon

I regret the absence of comfort light and facing pages, and I hope I won't mind the 227 dpi. Anyway I love the Libra and will continue to read plain kepubs on it, particularly on the go and at night.

I'll miss the Comfortlight PRO. I liked your list. I think many here are disappointed because they aren't the target market for the Elipsa. They were waiting for the successor to the Forma. For what the Elipsa is, however, I'm looking forward to manga reading, epub editing, and more real world notebook like notes when I'm reading.

[ral67]

Originally Posted by anacreon

Just ordered from Fnac.com, for 380€ since I have the FNAC card and agreed to fetch it from the store (15 minutes by bus from home). Availability announced: from 18 June - I hope it will be so because I wish for enough time to load and learn it before going on holidays.

I've read everything I could find about it here and elsewhere, and the reasons I chose to buy
.

I saw that and found it difficult to believe that in France it would available one week earlier than the rest of the world
Even FNAC Spain lists June 24
If it is I am tempted to drive to Perpignan to get one earlier

[davidfor]

For anyone who gets an Elipsa early, I have just checked in the changes for calibre to recognise the Elipsa. This is adding the device ids and other code so that calibre will see it and attempt to use it. This will be in the next calibre release. Or, for anyone that gets an Elipsa before then, you can run calibre from source to test.

But, I don't know the firmware version or database version that will be on the device. This means that calibre will almost definitely display the new firmware warning when an Elipsa is connected. I have been told that there are no changes in the firmware that will affect how calibre sees Kobo ereaders. It should be safe to use the "Attempt to support newer firmware" option in the driver.


Disclaimer: I do not have an Elipsa to test with. The details have come from a reliable source. I have done the best I can to not introduce any errors, but, until someone plugs an Elipsa in while running this code, I can't be completely sure.

[NiLuJe]

@ral67: I can confirm than Fnac FR is happily listing 'em as available on the 18th (online, at least); while Kobo FR does say on the 24th. o_O.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ottischwenk

Which evidence do you want?
Microscope photos of blur areas?
It's enough for me that I got a better replacement for 8 inches.

There is no 8" eInk screen that is not Mobious. You are talking a 7.8" Carta screen. That is not 8".

[salamanderjuice]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is no 8" eInk screen that is not Mobious. You are talking a 7.8" Carta screen. That is not 8".

Have you heard of rounding?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by salamanderjuice

Have you heard of rounding?

But the screens are different and when you say 8" screen, you mean Mobious. And when you are talking eInk screens, you do not round.

If I said my H2O has a 7" screen, others would think I have a Libra H2O and not an Aura H2O with a 6.8".

[ottischwenk]

Originally Posted by salamanderjuice

Have you heard of rounding?

Thanks, but I'll gladly do without the 3 mm more screen width and 4 mm height, especially when I use the completely even screen illumination for contrast enhancement.
That is worth the 70 g extra weight for me.

[Colonel Cathcart]

Was this posted here already? I remembered goodereader promised in their review a separate in-depth look at note taking but that never showed up on their blog. It was posted in the youtube channel:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9UNZqfHEtU

[JSWolf]

[Nightyume]

I was seriously disappointed by that video. Somebody really needs to do one where they show the notebooks exported to a PC to see how they look in the different export options. (As well as marked up PDFs).