Rakuten Kobo announces Kobo Elipsa 2E, a freshly upgraded digital reading and writing experience designed for readers who want to engage with their eBooks and expand on their ideas like never before. Bundled with the new and improved Kobo Stylus 2, Kobo Elipsa 2E is the ideal eReader to help you focus, explore your ideas and stay organized while you do it.
With a 10.3” glare-free E Ink touchscreen and ComfortLight PRO to reduce blue light and eyestrain, Kobo Elipsa 2E allows you to create and organize notebooks and seamlessly export them with integrated cloud services.
"Kobo Elipsa 2E is the latest step in our journey to make reading lives better, bridging gaps between print and digital books, and offering an unparalleled reading experience... for many of our valued customers, reading is more than words on a page. It is about engaging with ideas. Marking up, highlighting, capturing inspiration in infinite notebooks of almost magical capability using a versatile, intuitively-designed stylus – these are essential for capturing the thoughts and ideas that reading inspires.” said Michael Tamblyn, CEO, Rakuten Kobo.
“For avid nonfiction readers, eBooks have historically been an imperfect medium because they couldn’t mark up the text and engage with the content as effectively as with a print book. With the introduction of Kobo Stylus, we have solved that and with Kobo Elipsa 2E and our upgraded Kobo Stylus 2, we have created a superior reading experience for nonfiction fans.” added Tamblyn.
Kobo Elipsa 2E - Friendly on the inside and outside
The exterior of Kobo Elipsa 2E is made with more than 85 per cent recycled plastic, including 10 per cent ocean-bound plastic—abandoned plastic waste that is otherwise on its way to our oceans.
Said recycled plastics in Kobo Elipsa 2E is internationally certified and meets rigorous international standards for recycled materials in consumer goods.
Intuitive Kobo Stylus 2 experience
With Kobo Elipsa 2E and Kobo Stylus 2, you can mark up, highlight and jot notes in your eBooks and PDFs* with ease, making reading and marking up nonfiction titles, essays or assignments a breeze. Kobo Stylus 2 is also completely customizable - choose the pen type, shade, line size and eraser size that suits your needs.
*PDFs with digital rights management or permission limitations are not compatible with markups or annotations.
Notebooks and free-form notes as individual as you are
Kobo Elipsa 2E’s built-in notebook feature has room for all your notes, ideas and to-do lists. With the handwriting experience powered by MyScript, transform your handwriting to typed text with just a tap. Seamlessly navigate to the My Notebooks section to create and manage your notebooks.
You can also choose a notebook template, keep your notes grouped in folders and never worry about sorting through your notebooks to look for something, with the handy Search function that will help you find just what you are looking for by keyword.
Keep it all in the cloud
Sign into Dropbox (or Google Drive, coming soon) to easily import documents and export your personal notebooks to share. You can also see all your notebooks on kobo.com. Plus,
Kobo Elipsa 2E is compatible with the third-party service Readwise and allows you to sync your annotations to tools like Notion, Roam, Evernote and more*.
*Readwise is a paid service
Read comfortably in any light with ComfortLight PRO
The eReader features Kobo's built-in ComfortLight PRO adjustable brightness and temperature control, so readers can enjoy their books from day to night with ease and choose their own light setting based on personal preference.
Simply adjust the brightness of your screen and blue light control—changing colour temperature to give your eyes a break—to limit eye strain and let you read well into the night, without affecting your sleep.
Enjoy the benefits of seamless library integration
Readers can borrow eBooks from most local public libraries right from their device with built-in one-touch OverDrive access. Set-up is easy and free with a library card.
Through the integrated catalogue, booklovers can search for the title they want, and depending on local library availability, choose to borrow from OverDrive or buy through the 24/7 Kobo eBookstore.
*Readers can make notes in eBooks borrowed through OverDrive, but notes will not stay on the eReader after the eBook is returned to the library.
Stress-free reading, no matter the device with the help of the Kobo App
Extend your reading experience with the free Kobo App for your smartphone or tablet—ensuring your library is always with you, even when your eReader isn’t handy. Kobo remembers where you last bookmarked a page, so you can pick up where you left off and never lose your place, no matter which device you choose.
Kobo Elipsa 2E, complete with Kobo Stylus 2, will retail for MYR 2,019.00 at www.kobo.com/ereaders and select retailers. Pre-orders will be available on April 5 and the device will be available in stores and online as of April 19, 2024 in Malaysia.