Rakuten Kobo announced the release of the Kobo Elipsa 2E, a newly enhanced digital reading and writing experience built for readers who want to engage with their eBooks and build on their ideas like never before. The Kobo Elipsa 2E, which comes with the updated and enhanced Kobo Stylus 2, is the ideal eReader for helping you focus, explore your ideas, and keep organised while doing so.
Rakuten Kobo’s in-house product designers and software developers hit the books and reinvented the Kobo Elipsa 2E, a best-in-class reading and writing bundle. The Kobo Elipsa 2E, which has a 10.3″ glare-free E Ink touchscreen with ComfortLight PRO to decrease blue light and eyestrain, allowing you to create and organise notebooks as well as instantly transfer them to integrated cloud services.
With 32GB of storage and weeks of battery life on a single charge, you can take your entire library and all of your notes with you everywhere you go. With the Kobo Elipsa 2E’s 85 percent recycled plastic exterior, including 10% ocean-bound plastic, you can easily transition from reading eBooks to listening to Kobo audiobooks using Bluetooth® wireless technology.
“For over a decade, we have been innovating in the digital reading space with our best-in-class eReaders, expansive eBook and audiobook selection, and top-rated Kobo Apps. 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,”
— said Michael Tamblyn, CEO, Rakuten Kobo.
“We understand that, 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.”
“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.”
Tamblyn added
With the bundled Kobo Stylus 2, you can write more quickly and easily. The ergonomically redesigned and rechargeable Kobo Stylus 2 lets you simply erase mistakes with the eraser on the back and highlight important portions with the highlighter button. When not in use, magnetically store the stylus on the Kobo Elipsa 2E. Highlight, underline, and scribble in the margins with confidence that your notes will always be visible, even if you alter the font size or page layout, thanks to Kobo’s exclusive markup technology.
The Kobo Elipsa 2E SleepCover is an eco-friendly way to protect your Kobo Elipsa 2E. The SleepCover is made of 97 percent recycled plastic, including 10 percent ocean-bound trash, and is manufactured from plastic that would otherwise end up in a landfill or the ocean. The Kobo Elipsa 2E SleepCover, available in Black, saves battery life by putting your eReader to sleep when you close it and effortlessly snaps on to your eReader and keeps your Kobo Stylus 2.
The Kobo Elipsa 2E with Kobo Stylus 2 will be available for MYR 2,019.00 at www.kobo.com/ereaders and select retailers. Pre-orders will begin on 5 April, with the device becoming available in stores and online on April 19 in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Turkey.
Get to know Kobo Elipsa 2E
Turning the page on single-use plastic
Kobo continues its commitment to provide outstanding eReading devices created with certified recycled materials whenever feasible while satisfying technical product criteria with the release of the Kobo Elipsa 2E. The exterior of the Kobo Elipsa 2E is constructed of more than 85% recycled plastic, including 10% ocean-bound material—abandoned plastic debris that would otherwise end up in our seas. The recycled plastics formula used in Kobo Elipsa 2E is globally certified and fulfils stringent international criteria for recycled materials in consumer goods. Aside from the device, our packaging is magnet-free, composed of FSC-certified recycled paper, and printed with soy ink—one of the most environmentally friendly and renewable printing techniques available today.
Intuitive Kobo Stylus 2 experience
You can easily mark up, highlight, and scribble notes in your eBooks and PDFs* with the Kobo Elipsa 2E and Kobo Stylus 2, making reading and marking up nonfiction works, essays, or assignments a snap. Kobo Stylus 2 has pressure sensitivity similar to a ballpoint pen and is totally adjustable – pick the pen type, shade, line size, and eraser size that meets your needs – so you can write straight on the page, exactly like a pen on paper.
Notebooks and free-form notes as individual as you are
The built-in notebook function on the Kobo Elipsa 2E allows you to keep track of all your notes, ideas, and to-do lists. With MyScript’s handwriting expertise, you can convert your handwriting to typed text with a single swipe. To create and manage your notebooks, simply browse to the My Notebooks area. Choose a notebook template, organise your notes into folders, and never worry about sifting through your notebooks again with the convenient Search option, which will help you locate exactly what you’re searching for by keyword.
Keep it all in the cloud
Sign up for Dropbox (or Google Drive, which will be available shortly) to effortlessly import documents and export your own notes for sharing. On kobo.com, you can also view all of your notebooks. Furthermore, the Kobo Elipsa 2E is compatible with the third-party service Readwise, allowing you to sync your annotations with apps such as Notion, Roam, Evernote, and others*.
*Readwise is a paid service
Read comfortably in any light with ComfortLight PRO
The eReader has Kobo’s ComfortLight PRO adjustable brightness and temperature control, allowing customers to read from day to night and pick their own light setting depending on personal choice. Simply change your screen’s brightness and blue light control (changing colour temperature to give your eyes a rest) to reduce eye strain and allow you to read late into the night without disrupting your sleep. ComfortLight PRO modulates blue light levels throughout the day to keep you alert at night. The Kobo Elipsa 2E also has a Dark Mode setting for white text on black.
Enjoy the benefits of seamless library integration
With built-in one-touch OverDrive access, readers can borrow eBooks from most local public libraries directly from their smartphone. With a library card, the setup is simple and free. Booklovers can look for titles in the integrated catalogue and, depending on local library availability, opt to borrow from OverDrive or buy from the 24/7 Kobo eBookstore. OverDrive integration is now available on all Kobo eReaders in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
*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 by downloading the free Kobo App for your smartphone or tablet, which keeps your library with you even when your eReader isn’t nearby. Kobo remembers where you last bookmarked a page, so you can take up where you left off and never lose your position, regardless of device.