Amazon Kindle Scribe (16 GB) - Now write directly on books and documents. With built-in notebook summarization. A Kindle and notebook, all in one. Includes Basic Pen
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- A Kindle and a notebook, all in one - Read and write down thoughts in books and documents, now with Active Canvas. Take notes in the built-in notebook, now with AI notebook tools.
- Write in books Start writing on the page and Active Canvas will create space for your notes. Expand the margins to add more notes, or collapse them to see the original page.
- Create notebooks - Journal, sketch, take meeting notes, and more. Summarize and refine your notes with new built-in AI notebook tools.
- Import and mark up documents - Review and take notes directly on documents and PDFs.
- Read and write as naturally as you do on paper - With a 10.2" 300 ppi glare-free, front-lit display.
- Long battery life - Unlike tablets, Kindle Scribe offers months of reading and weeks of writing on a single charge.
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Option: Premium Pen
Setup: 64 GB
Offer Type: Without Kindle Unlimited
First impressions review: I hesitated to get one of these when they first came out, because I couldn't see a use for it. But recently this year I took up a spiritual tradition (Buddhism) that requires a fair amount of study. As I was slogging through another text that was one abstract philosophical concept after another, I thought to myself, "You know, maybe I would get more out of this if I could take notes." Then my teacher recommended some ancient texts to read. He said they were meant to be read and digested slowly. Another case for being able to take notes. So, given my long love affair with Kindle, I suddenly had an excuse to try the Scribe. It's expensive, but I scraped together the money from my discretionary savings and purchased the refurbished version which is good as new. Wow wow wow I love it. First, that boring text I was reading? Infinitely more interesting and engaging for me to take notes as I go. When I have longer notes, I have a notebook I created that is dedicated exclusively to that book. The pen is really fluid and captures the exact idiosyncrasies of my handwriting. It really feels like writing on paper, which is such a therapeutic feeling for me. Already I feel like I'm getting more out of my reading and applying it to my own life. And I love that I can review my highlights and sticky notes in summary at any time. This has been transformative to my spiritual life. So if you like to study religious or spiritual texts I can't recommend it more highly. I also read a lot of non-fiction in general, from self-help to popular science, and I can imagine I'm going to get so much more out of my reading now that I can engage more deeply with the text. This is in contrast to how I would just rapidly consume these books in the past without really absorbing their lessons. So I got what I was hoping for out of this tool, but what I didn't expect was to be able to use it in so many other ways. Since I got the thing (only two days ago!) I have created several more notebooks, including a folder for all my Buddhist studies (including a notebook where I just write down questions I want to ask my teachers.) I created a freewrite journal to write my daily gratitude and set my intentions for the day or reflect at night. I created a work folder for me to jot down general notes during work. And I created a fiction folder for me to work on developing my novel in progress. The charm of this little machine is that you can organize all your notes about everything in one place. Until now, I have all the time been scribbling things down on random pieces of paper or in one of twenty different notebooks. With my ADHD I am all but guaranteed to lose important thoughts because I can't remember where I put them. But now - I only have one place to look! Nothing will get missed. I put it to the test yesterday because my Teams wasn't working at work, and I ended up having to take notes shorthand during a meeting. And those notes were waiting right there for me at the end of the day to review and create tasks. Finally, like the Oasis and the Paperwhite Signature, the Scribe has a dark mode, and it is a lot of fun to write with glowy handwriting in bed. I really enjoy recapping my day in the dark before drifting off to sleep. It almost makes me feel like a kid again, scribbling in my journal before bed. Only no flashlight needed. Now, constructive feedback: 1. Because this is a Kindle, the UI is not great. Some features are not intuitive to use. It took me forever to figure out how to change the pen width, another forever to figure out you can add a page to a notebook just by swiping right. For the person that said you can't change page templates within the same notebook, you can - you have to go to the page overview grid thing and you can add pages of any template. Had to figure that out too. 2. I don't love that notebooks are interspersed with books in My Library. There should be two separate categories IMO but then they couldn't advertise I guess. 3. If you are going to use a lot of sticky notes I suggest getting the premium pen, hiding the toolbar and setting the shortcut to sticky note. Now you don't have to look at the toolbar while you read. 4. I really wish there was a way to attach a notebook to a book, creating a shortcut for access, for longer notes that don't fit inside a sticky note. Either that or have infinite space in a sticky note. 5. I bought the 64GB and it appears they sent me the 30GB but I have already written too much to send it back without losing all my notes. Hopefully I will not run out of space! 6. I really don't know how this would work as a primary work tool. With my work, which is very detail oriented, I really can't write all my notes by hand. Typing is much more comprehensive. But the Scribe is great in a pinch where you need to write something short, like a reminder or phone number, or you have no other option. So I am using it at work for anything where I would normally use a pad of paper, but not when I would use a computer keyboard. Update: This little device has turned into one of my most treasured writing tools. As a fiction writer I really didn't imagine how much it would break open my creativity. It took me back to my childhood days when all I had was a pad of paper and a pen to write down my stories. Now I find myself coming back to the Scribe over and over when I need to work out a plot problem, or sometimes when I just don't feel like staring at a computer screen. I've composed many rough drafts of scenes, I've worked through themes, I've written outline sketches, it's just my catchall tool for figuring my books out. And for some reason it has massively accelerated the pace of my writing, particularly how quickly I am able to problem-solve when I get stuck. Something about the tactile freewrite experience really opens up my creativity in a way that staring at a blank computer screen does not. If you are a writer like me, I urge you to consider it!
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Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2024 by Happy Sea Slug
Option: Premium Pen
Setup: 64 GB
Offer Type: Without Kindle Unlimited
I ordered this one as soon as it was announced and hadn't really realized how short on functionality it was going to ship with, but I'm still extremely happy with it so far. First up, it's a very nice Kindle device and is amazing for reading my books on. I adore the screen on it, and it's very snappy and responsive to navigate and write on. The screen size is also wonderful for reading on for my nearly 50 year old eyes that have somehow slipped into reminding me of my age by needing multi-focal lenses. One thing on this front that I miss from my Oasis is the buttons on the margin for page flipping. Those are nice on that device, although I don't hate that they're missing from this one, I just kind of wish they were there. Another thing I'm a little annoyed with is no 4G or 5G built in. I'll live without it and tethering isn't hard these days, but it's an annoyance that didn't need to exist on at least the top end models. I love the writing experience on the device, too. It's not smooth as glass like my iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil, it's much more like writing on paper. But it has a similar quick response to writing input that makes it feel pretty natural and not artificial or annoying, so Amazon have worked that part out well. The functionality is very basic at this point, which is probably the most negative aspect of the device. But it's actually SO basic that I have few doubts that this isn't in the pipeline to be addressed in software updates over the next several months. I would suggest not gambling on that if the cost is prohibitive to you because you should always make your purchase decisions on what you actually get when you buy, and not based on future promises or a naive belief that what you want will be delivered at any point. I can afford to live with my device as is, and it'll still meet the needs of why I bought it, just not optimally, if they don't add what I consider the missing functionality to it. That's not going to be true for everyone. The hardware they've used does support everything needed for all the additional features that I suspect Amazon is planning to add, if they've fully implemented it in the hardware, and at this price point, I believe they have, but I don't know it for sure. Things I think it's missing are: Pressure sensitivity for the pen A wider array of writing tools (drawing tools primarily) Stroke based storage instead of converting strokes to pixels Ability to zoom in and out of notes and drawings Handwriting recognition Related to handwriting recognition, the ability to search note contents More organization options for notes Perhaps a second app to segment writing from drawing functions, but this isn't a want, just a speculation on how they may approach some of these features if they add them Better Kindle integration - like having notes automatically sync to other Kindle devices and apps on other devices, more robust sharing options and integrating with other products like Office apps or drawing exports, etc. Ways to mark up a book with the pen beyond just the current sticky notes. This is a complicated ask because of the way ebooks are formatted, but it isn't unsolvable. My hope is that they are responsive to customer feedback and this becomes the premier Kindle e-ink device, and that they add this functionality to the current devices rather than milking them by only adding them to newer models. It seems more likely that they'll add most or all of the functionality to these devices, because otherwise they'd create a massive amount of customer backlash that they'd have to needlessly overcome, and that just isn't logical or necessary, so I think we'll see at least some of these features added over the coming several months to a year or two.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2022 by Keith D.