The stylus will automatically attach itself to the side, limiting the potential misplacement on it. There are five magnets alongside the bezel. It uses the ComfortLight PRO front-light system, an improved version of the original ComfortLight system found in the first Elipsa, with white and amber LED lights that provide warm and cool lighting or a mixture of both. The screen is flush with the bezel and protected by a layer of glass. The Kobo Elipsa 2E features a 10.3-inch E INK Carta 1200 e-paper display panel with a resolution of 1404×1872 with 227 PPI. Love audiobooks? Bluetooth gives you the ability to connect up a pair of wireless headphones or earbuds and listen to your heart’s content. Users can continue to access Overdrive for ebook lending, Pocket for web articles sent directly to your Kobo, and of course, it makes a deadly ebook reader with a huge ten-inch display. Most of the new enhancements are hardware-based, but the software experience is similar, other than a few key upgrades. There is a night and day difference between the 1st generation Elipsa and the second-generation model. The only other new software change is a lasso tool, making it easy to move images and other art assets around. All of your notebooks are now synced and stored automatically in the Kobo Cloud, notes can be viewed on the Kobo website, and notebooks can then be shared via email or downloaded to a PC or MAC. Kobo introduced a number of new software enhancements such as Google Drive, which joins Dropbox as two cloud storage providers that users can access to store their digital collections. The recent case covers designed for the Elipsa 2 are made of 100% ocean plastics and come in many colours.

Kobo uses around 80% recycled magnesium alloy inside the hardware, similar to the new Kindle Scribe. The retail packaging uses 100% recycled cardboard, and the ink on the box and user manuals is made of 100% vegan ink. Kobo wanted to increase the percentage of ocean plastics, but using more than they are employing is a fire hazard due to the lithium-ion battery generating heat. The Elipsa 2E uses 85% recycled ocean plastics, like those found on water bottles, old CDs, and DVDs. Kobo has continued with the trend of using environmentally friendly hardware and retail packaging. There is a new processor architecture, providing a huge increase in single-core speed and increasing power efficiency. The Kobo Pen has been redesigned, it is 25% lighter, making it easier to hold for long writing sessions, a dedicated eraser at the top, is a great way to remove errant mistakes. The front-lit display has been upgraded from a Comrtfortlight to Comfortlight Pro, providing better illumination for warm and cool colours. There have been a few massive improvements to this model, that the first-generation Elipsa did not have. The Rakuten Kobo Elipsa 2e is their second shot at a large-screen e-paper display that is primarily geared towards taking notes, freehand drawing, annotating PDF files and editing ebooks.

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