Elipsa Kobo Elipsa 2E

[Skydog]

Originally Posted by HLS

That is too much of a hassle especially how i financed it

Yes, you already replied above in post #32.

[stoney77]

I'm just curious about those people who have already received their Elipsa 2e from Kobo directly. How many days after you ordered did you receive it? I ordered mine on 4/21 and when I check the status it always says shipment pending. I checked around and discovered that Amazon can ship it to me within 2 days of ordering and Walmart 2-3 days.

Thanks.

[icallaci]

I preordered mine on April 6, and when I saw other people were getting their readers but mine hadn't even shipped, I wondered the same thing. It took about a week after I started seeing posts that people were receiving their readers before mine shipped.

[Skydog]

Originally Posted by stoney77

I'm just curious about those people who have already received their Elipsa 2e from Kobo directly. How many days after you ordered did you receive it? I ordered mine on 4/21 and when I check the status it always says shipment pending. I checked around and discovered that Amazon can ship it to me within 2 days or ordering and Walmart 2-3 days.

Thanks.

I pre-ordered with an estimated ship date of 4/20. It shipped 4/24 and arrived 4/26. It has been my experience that for regular orders it takes several (business) days before moving from the "pending" status. The good news is that there is an improved change for US customers with the use of various distribution points, hence my 2-day delivery. Previously, Kobo's shipping process was ridiculously slow, bogged down for several days in Detroit customs before continuing on. I would think you would receive a notice this week.

[stoney77]

Thanks to those who responded to my question.

So, today I called Kobo again and asked when my shipment was going out and they told me it would be shipped before Wednesday.

About an hour after that, I received a package from USPS and, of course, it was my Elipsa 2e and cover that they told me they hadn't shipped. No updates on the Kobo web site, no tracking number, no email concerning the shipping. Many people in the Kobo forum on Reddit told of similar problems of no correspondence from Kobo.

So thanks again skydog and icallaci for your responses. My next order for anything Kobo will be from Amazon or Walmart.

[Skydog]

Originally Posted by stoney77

Thanks to those who responded to my question.

So, today I called Kobo again and asked when my shipment was going out and they told me it would be shipped before Wednesday.

About an hour after that, I received a package from USPS and, of course, it was my Elipsa 2e and cover that they told me they hadn't shipped. No updates on the Kobo web site, no tracking number, no email concerning the shipping. Many people in the Kobo forum on Reddit told of similar problems of no correspondence from Kobo.

So thanks again skydog and icallaci for your responses. My next order for anything Kobo will be from Amazon or Walmart.

Happy to hear it arrived. I should have added that I, too, never received an update online nor did I receive the usual email with tracking info. The only clue that there was some activity was an emailed receipt of the $25 gift certificate that was included with pre-orders. I ended up contacting CS with repeated requests for info, which I finally received. I suspect the change in distribution/shipping has created some problems.

Enjoy your new Elipsa!

[RobertJSawyer]

If you turn on screenshots on the Elipsa 2, and take a screenshot of a page in a .kepub or .epub that you have made handwritten annotations on, will the handwritten annotations appear in the screenshot? Thanks!

[RobertJSawyer]

Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer

If you turn on screenshots on the Elipsa 2, and take a screenshot of a page in a .kepub or .epub that you have made handwritten annotations on, will the handwritten annotations appear in the screenshot? Thanks!

I asked one of the Kobo developers directly, and he replied, "Yes, they will."

Woohoo!

[RobertJSawyer]

Can you markup sideloaded epubs or kepubs that were not bought from Kobo?

My proposed use case: take a Word .docx manuscript, convert it to .kepub in Calibre; sideload from Calibre to the Elipsa 2e, markup the sideloaded kepub using the Kobo pen, screenshot the marked-up pages, and send the resulting screenshot .png files via email to the author of the original Word document.

Will that work?

Many thanks!

[Quoth]

Can you markup sideloaded epubs or kepubs that were not bought from Kobo?

Only sync is affected by bought vs sideload.

Pen is for PDFs and Notebooks. It's madness with epub or kepub. Better to use the touch keyboard and text.

Only Advanced Notebook converts pen to text and shapes.

PDFs can simply be copied back to computer.

I've done maybe nearly 1000 docx conversions to epub (only used kepub till I discovered it existed) and read back the text annotations with calibre for a text editor open beside original document (switched from Word to LO Writer about 2014 or 2015 entirely). I used to use "tabbed" Notebook++ editor for copied back annotations but a while after switching to Linux I switched to KATE, which is nearly identical.

The only difference for Kobo with bought vs Sideloaded seems to be Sync.

Madness using images / png annotation with epubs, but you can if you want to.

The kepub is proprietary to Kobo. I prefer to use epub, as that's what is sent to Amazon, Google, Apple, B&N, Kobo, Smashwords etc. Also epub rather than kepub for my 3 non-kobo ereaders that are not Kindles. Apps on Android are epub, not kepub.

But for the three or four methods of export text annotations (or Pen) from Kobo, the kepub vs epub vs sideloaded vs bought makes no difference. Pen is fine to mark-up layout errors on PDFs for POD, or stuff on instruction /manual PDFs. Makes no sense for epub/kepub for export to computer and part of edit / proof / annotate / edit workflow cycle.

[RobertJSawyer]

Quoting quoth, "Madness using images / png annotation with epubs, but you can if you want to."

I get sent manuscripts from other authors to read sometimes and prefer to convert them to kepubs and read the text on my Kobo (currently, Clara 2e and Libra 2) rather than in hardcopy or in Word.

I often send back screenshots of pages I've put highlights on. It works quite well for them and for me. But I'm eying the Elipsa 2e as a way to also put standard proofreader's marks on the screens.

So, my workflow isn't your workflow, old boy. Mine is: a friend asks me to read a manuscript; I want to read it comfortably, so I put it on my Kobo; I'm not about to fiddle around with the ridiculous onscreen keyboard on the Kobo and instead just highlight things that the original author should revisit. I never edit the original author's Word document. However, it'd be handy to be able to put a "delete" curlycue over an extraneous word or to be able to add a scrawled "cliché!" in the margins.

And, of course, Kobo's sales info for the Elipsa 2e shows it being used to mark up a Kepub with handwriting:

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca...8704-item.html

Also, I've long taken screenshots of Kobo pages I've highlighted and dumped them into Evernote, which performs OCR on them, making them searchable. I've got a "saved search" on Evernote with the following parameters; it makes it easy to search just within Kobo screen captures:

matching ALL of the following: 
contains words starting with "screen_"
containing image/png 
with advanced filters "intitle:png"

With that, it took but an instant to retrieve this screenshot that contains the term "twistor:"



(Yes, I also export annotations into Calibre and into plain-text files, as well. And I have all of my ebooks knocked down to text files in Textile format and can search my entire library with very sophisticated search strings using a grep utility.)

All best wishes,
Rob
(Past President, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America)

[Quoth]

Well, with Sage or Elipsa or Elipsa 2 you can use pen & Screen shots and/or use the keyboard for text.

A BT keyboard does work any place the onscreen keyboard can be used, but I only highlight a big chunk and type a word or two, or an abbreviated equivalent of markup.

Also sideloaded vs bought doesn't matter.

You have choice and it works unlike the crazy Amazon to-and-fro and print-replica etc of the Scribe.

[hobnail]

The first Elipsa has the Caecilia font but the 2e does not. Firmware version is 4.36.21095. I didn't find any mention of it in this thread.

Anyhow, I installed some fonts and will try them.

For me, the improved power button and the additional speed made the upgrade worth it for me. IRS tax refund helped. The textured back is nice. I'm kind of meh about the light color (nice but nothing to get excited about).

What's the little wire thing for? Looks like what I use on my phone for changing the sim card. I don't see a hole for it on the ereader or the pen. It's a replacement tip for the pen; just thought of that this morning.

[Quoth]

The power LED isn't also a reset button? The LED is very small on the original Elipsa.

[RobertJSawyer]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Well, with Sage or Elipsa or Elipsa 2 you can use pen & Screen shots and/or use the keyboard for text.

Is there any trick to getting a Bluetooth keyboard to work with the Elipsa 2E (or any other Kobo)? I've got one from Targus that the Kobo finds but fails to pair with. Thanks!