For me, there is totally nothing that beats placing actual pen to actual paper. There’s additionally nothing that beats folding a paperback e-book, smelling the pages—and when you’re Team Jess from Gilmore Girls, possibly additionally writing in the margins. But typically, and I say this as somebody who held out on utilizing an e-reader till it became my job, digital is useful.

It’s good to deliver a single light-weight machine to the seaside or on the prepare—no have to pack a number of completely different books or plan forward what you need to learn. More e-readers are including the power to jot down notes, too, which makes them much more alluring. I can take notes and manage them digitally with out having to tear out and waste paper. This second-generation Kobo Elipsa 2E does all of that with a big display screen and an included stylus. The draw back? It’s pricier than a lot of the competitors.

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Start up the Elipsa 2E and you will be greeted with two sorts of notebooks. There’s a primary pocket book with 20 completely different background types—suited to drawing, day by day planners, and easy note-taking on a college-ruled web page. Then there are Advanced notebooks that do not have a number of background types however can convert handwriting to textual content, with the power to insert drawings, diagrams, and equations on one web page. These even have quick-edit features like crossing out a phrase to mechanically erase it. Both sorts of notebooks are simple to make use of, and I like which you could seek for phrases or phrases to seek out content material rapidly.

Kobo’s first-generation stylus was battery-powered, however the brand new mannequin is rechargeable, which is a pleasant improve. It sticks to the highest of the Elipsa magnetically, so that you need not fear about dropping it. The different finish of the stylus is a devoted eraser, which is one thing you must pay additional for on the Elipsa’s nearest competitor, the Kindle Scribe.