Hi everyone
I have a kobo id like to upgrade but I'm just wondering what the process is. If I want to use nicklemenu later on as a launcher, do I need to install it first?
What are other cool apps I can install?
I’ve been working on an eReader remote for iOS for a while.
It doesn’t work with Kindle (sorry), but it’s been tested with Bluetooth-capable Kobo (@kobo) and Boox devices.
It’s free, and ad-free.
If you try it and like it please consider leaving a review!
I mostly use it to read in bed (see attached photos) 😅
Bought an ebook from @kobo, turns out it was an outdated edition. Contacted support, and then told me that since I had already downloaded the book, they couldn’t refund me. Like, you didn’t give me the book I bought, wtf?
I told them I’d do a chargeback if I don’t get a refund, and *now* they say they’re escalating it and I’ll hear back in two days. Safe to say I won’t be buying from them again. As much as I dislike Google, they sell many DRM-free ebooks, and I’ll give them business for that
The Kobo Elipsa 2E is our favorite note-taking e-reader.
Kobo is discounting two of its best e-readers. The Kobo Elipsa 2E, a competitor to the Kindle Scribe, is available for an all-time low of $349.99 ($50 off) from Rakuten Kobo and Target. Meanwhile, the Kobo Libra Colour is available for $209.99 ($20 off) from Amazon, Target, and Rakuten Kobo. The sale runs through July 10th.
The Kobo Elipsa 2E is my top pick for taking notes while reading. Its spacious 10.3-inch display lets you write directly on ebook pages — whether in margins, between lines, or wherever inspiration strikes — giving you a natural, paper-like experience. While Amazon’s Kindle Scribe supports on-page writing, its tools are far more limited; you can’t freely annotate, circle text, or mark up pages with the same ease. For anyone wanting an e-reader that doubles as a digital notebook, the Elipsa 2E offers a more intuitive and versatile experience.
The Kobo Elipsa 2E is an ad-free 10.3-inch e-reader you can write on with the included stylus. It offers a whole host of useful features, like the ability to convert handwriting to typed text and a great selection of pen types.
$399.99 $349.99 at Target $399.99 $349.99 at Rakuten Kobo
Meanwhile, the Kobo Libra Colour is worth a look if you want something smaller but still feature-packed. Like the Kindle Colorsoft, it features a compact 7-inch color display that makes highlights, annotations, and comics pop compared to monochrome screens. Although the Colorsoft’s hues are slightly more vibrant, the Libra Colour provides a pleasant, easy-on-the-eyes experience. It also includes physical page-turn buttons and stylus compatibility (sold separately), allowing you to mark up text or jot notes — features that the Colorsoft lacks despite costing more.
Kobo’s main drawback is the lack of native Kindle book support, but it makes up for this with broader file format compatibility and support for direct borrowing from public libraries through OverDrive. Plus, if you don’t mind a few extra steps, you can always convert Kindle books for use on Kobo devices.
The Libra Colour is one of the newest e-readers from Kobo and one of the first with color. With both OverDrive and Pocket support, it gives readers considerably more options than e-readers from bigger brands like Amazon.
$229 at Amazon $219.99 $209.99 at Target $219.99 $209.99 at Rakuten Kobo
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From The Verge via this RSS feed
https://www.theverge.com/tech/694492/kobo-elipsa-2e-libra-color-yeedi-cube-deal-saleOpen linkView original on piefed.socialLast night the Kobo CEO had a longer thread on Bluesky talking about how, when, and where they are using AI and what type of AI they are using.
Short version is that they are against using Generative AI that is trained on authors content without their expressed and explicit consent. But have used small models that help with proper metadata, flag explicit material for proper review, look for malicious duplication or auto-generated AI modifications of existing books or scraped websites.
They also reposted it to their writinglife blog.
https://kobowritinglife.com/2025/05/29/ai-and-accessibility-at-kobo/Open linkView original on literature.cafe
Wow! DOOMFLOWER is at number 5 in Young Adult - YA, Horror on @kobo!
Anyone heard anything? Would love a 7" carta 1300 screen.
I just got my first ereader, and am wondering if anyone has suggestions as to where I can purchase books but also download them (.epub, etc) after purchasing. I want to support the authors, but I also want to actually own the thing I'm paying for. Is ebooks.com a good option?
I recently got my Kobo Elipsa 2E and it's better than I expected, especially the simplicity of OS and how well handwriting generally works were a surprise to me.
Given that its handwritten notes features are surprisingly capable, I've been trying to use it to take notes for learning physics but quite soon ran into an issue in trying to use the advanced notebook:
In physics, there's a notation where you can write dx/dt as an x with a dot above it (ẋ), adding more dots the more often you take the derivative w.r.t. time though you typically only need 2 max. The handwriting recognition for formulas does not know this notation however and therefore converts any attempts to stupid stuff instead.
Additionally, I quite frequently write sentences that also contain some "math symbols" such as δ or θ or even just mathematical expressions such as L(x). Formula fields would recognise these just fine but no such luck with regular text fields; it tries to make normal letters or words out of these.
The maths formula mode cannot be used for annotating equations either as it garbles words into symbol structures.
The fall-back would be to just use raw drawing plots but my handwriting is quite poor and I'd rather have text because that really works quite well otherwise. I could write text mode until I need a sentence with a symbol in it but I don't know ahead of time whether I'll need it and by the time I know, it's already too late and I'd need to write the entire sentence again inside a raw canvas.
Are there any solutions or potential workarounds to my problems?
Is it possible to make the formula recognition aware of this notation somehow? I'll likely need further such niche notations in the future too.
Is it perhaps possible to have sections of text (or even formulas) that contain small raw canvases which don't get converted to text? That would also be a nice escape hatch.
Is there an alternative note-taking app one could side-load that works better perhaps? The hardware is surprisingly capable as mentioned; these issues are purely in software.
