Kindle Scribe (16 GB) the first Kindle for reading, writing, journaling and sketching - with a 10.2” 300 ppi Paperwhite display, includes Premium Pen
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Option: Premium Pen
Setup: 16 GB
Offer Type: With 3 Months Free Kindle Unlimited
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- EXPLORE KINDLE NOTEBOOKS A digital notebook you can write on. Journal, sketch, take notes, and more.
- CONVERT HANDWRITTEN NOTES TO TEXT View or share your notes with contacts and browse notes on the go through the Kindle app.
- READ AND WRITE AS NATURALLY AS YOU DO ON PAPER The worlds first 10.2" 300 ppi glare-free, front-lit display.
- TAKE HANDWRITTEN NOTES AS YOU READ Write notes within millions of titles in the Kindle Store.
- IMPORT AND MARK UP DOCUMENTS Review and take notes directly on PDFs, or create sticky notes in Microsoft Word.
- THE LONGEST BATTERY LIFE OF ANY KINDLE Unlike tablets, Kindle Scribe offers months of reading and weeks of writing on a single charge.
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Option: Basic Pen
Setup: 16 GB
Offer Type: Without Kindle Unlimited
I struggled with the decision to purchase the new Kindle Scribe. I have had several kindles (going all the way back to the Kindle with a keyboard) and a few Kindle Fires. I currently have a Kindle Paperwhite and Fire 8 plus. I have always valued the reading experience on kindles along with the ability to have access to a library of books, obtain samples of books, and a convenient way to highlight and add sticky notes. I was initially excited to see the Scribe come out, but the price and some negative reviews really gave me pause. At the urging of my spouse as a Christmas present and convincing myself that I would return it if it didn’t meet my expectations I decided to take the plunge. I am so glad I did. It has exceeded my expectations in all three of my must haves. I decided to write this review in hopes of helping others going back and forth about whether to purchase it now or wait for a future update. As a little background, I am in academia. I decided that I would purchase and keep the Kindle Scribe if it did an excellent job with The following. 1) Able to read textbooks and technical books with tables, charts, graphs, and math. 2) Able to read pdfs. 3) Able to write notes (lecture notes, answer keys, personal research notes, etc.) Based upon the previous reviews, I was not confident that the Scribe would do a great job with all three of the above must haves. However, it does. I’ll take each one separately with my pros/cons and fixes. 1) With my previous kindles (including my current paperwhite and Fire), I was never able to have that wonderful reading experience when it came to textbooks and/or more technical books which included tables, charts, graphs, and math. The physical size of the previous kindles simply was never going to work well with these types of books, even with the zoom feature. The size, and perfection of the screen, of the Scribe makes reading these types of books just as enjoyable as reading a book of fiction. The technical stuff comes across wonderfully and there’s no funky formatting that the previous kindles would have when it comes to tables, charts, etc. So, the Scribe passed with flying colors when it come to this must have. In response to some other reviews, I will say that I’m actually glad that I cannot write (make notes, underline, circle) on the books themselves. I like writing a sticky note and highlighting because it keeps the pages less cluttered. Looking back at physical books that I’ve had to read many times over the years, I have written so many notes in the margins, underlined, etc. that it makes reading them again a pain. I hope that Amazon will always keep the option of sticky notes even if one day it allows writing directly on the book. Given the price, did I need the Scribe? No. I could’ve just continued to read these types of books as physical books. But, I am so glad that I can do it on the Scribe and have the wonderful kindle reading experience. My only complaint is that a few books purchased in the past don’t recognize the pen. This might just be an issue of needing to reformat all books and hopefully it will be fixed in the future. Even with those few books, I can still type sticky notes and highlight as before so it hasn’t bee a big deal. 2) Given the size of previous Kindles, sending a pdf and reading it just was never going to work well. The Scribe does a near perfect job. Now, having read some reviews, I was really worried about this must have. I read lots of pdfs from my laptop for my job, and as I sit reading look over to my Paperwhite and wish that I could use it instead (the E-ink is just so much better). Here’s my take on pdfs, if the pdf is nicely formatted to begin with then it comes across on the Scribe perfectly. Yes, you can write on it which is nice (kind of wish I could use sticky notes instead though) and easily export it to your email address. On the other hand, if the pdf is not nicely formatted and/or the text is a bit blurry to begin with, then it doesn’t come to the Scribe perfectly either of course. I have played around with preparing these troublesome pdfs by cropping or simply changing the margin size before sending and it seems to help, but the text is not as crisp. Still though, I can read the pdfs on the Scribe just as easily as reading them on my laptop. So, overall, the Scribe exceeded my expectations here. One strange thing I’ve come across is that when initially opening a pdf, it opens to a cover page so you have to actually go to the beginning by opening up the toolbar at the top then you can flip the pages. This is an example of needing to play around a bit with the Scribe to figure out some of the features. The entire focus on the “cover” thing in pdfs and notes seemed to be a big thing with the tech folks, might be a privacy issue they have in mind. I realize that some folks, myself included, use Google drive and other web-based options to store documents, but Amazon has done an excellent job of allowing the user to drag and drop a document into the Send to Kindle page/app (and, I make sure to choose the option to send only to my Scribe rather than clutter up all my devices). I have only tried one Word document so far but it came across perfectly on the Scribe. If you have a book pdf, you can simply write Chapter 1, 2, etc. on the page of each chapter then go to the notes to easily move to where you want to go. So, I have been extremely happy with this feature which would’ve been a deal breaker for me. 3) Others have said that writing on the Scribe feels nearly the same as writing on paper and it does. I plan to write lecture notes, answer keys, and just some notes for myself. Amazon has done a great job in allowing the notebooks to be easily sent to my email address as pdfs, and they come across on my laptop and Fire exactly has I’ve written them. I am really, really pleased with this aspect. In the past, I would scribble an answer key or some notes on a lecture (including Graphs and math) on some scrap paper then a year later when teaching the class again realize that I’d lost the notes and have to redo them. I will be doing all my writing on the Scribe and storing them for latter use. Having read some reviews, it sounded like the current software on the Scribe was not up to the competition. I have to say, however, I am very pleased with the existing software. You don’t get twenty different widths for the pen but rather five. I really don’t want to have to choose from a great many, and what they have now is just fine for my needs. It is true that you don’t have subfolders to create and a large notebook would be difficult to find things in. I get all of those issues. However, instead of writing a 100 page notebook I plan to write lecture notes in 10 notebooks of 10 pages in length saved under one folder. By using appropriate titles for each notebook I think it will actually be better than having one rather lengthy notebook. There’s not a great many templates to choose from, but I have found the ones currently available work just fine for my needs. Again, though, the Kindle Scribe exceeded my expectation for writing notes. Overall, I am thrilled with the Kindle Scribe. I really enjoy the reading and writing experience. Given the price, did I absolutely need the Scribe? Not really. I could read the physical textbooks/technical books. I could read the pdfs on my laptop. I could write notes on paper then scan them into my computer. Or, of course, I could do these things on a good tablet. However, I have always enjoyed the reading experience on a kindle and the Scribe might be the best yet. The writing experience on the Scribe is the closest digital device to paper that I have used. I am glad to have these things on one device which does not have all the distractions that come with laptops and tablets. I hope this review helps others in making their decisions. Oh, and as others have said, the battery is amazing compared to tablets and phones.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2022 by Agatha783
Option: Basic Pen
Setup: 16 GB
Offer Type: Without Kindle Unlimited
I have been wanting a bigger screen kindle since the slow death of the DX. I love reading, I read and listen to between 50 and 100 books a year. The screen on the scribe is terrific, better than the competitors I've seen, I love the e-ink screen. It's also, and this is crucial as it is part of my profession, PERFECT size for textbooks. I write on paper quite a bit. But, I also have a surface I've been taking to meetings and the like. It's heavy, and I have to keep it charged. Then, I lost my pen and the university I work for said they couldn't purchase me a new one. They could, however, purchase a new surface, which, well, is the idiocy of bureaucracy. So, in protest, I went back to the ubiquitous yellow legal pads. My note taking is rudimentary, I am not a digital artist, I have a huge kindle library, and I like the bigger screen to read from. This is probably who the Scribe is made for. The writing experience is great. It has a tactile feel, a bit like that you get from the surface pro pen 2, or, you know, actual paper, but, you never have to charge the pen. It also has the digital eraser on the pen, just flip it over and rub away (heh). The premium pen has a button that is set out-of-the-box as the highlighter button. There is no lag in the writing, if there is, I can't tell. It feels goooooooood, and looks good. There are some things you won't get. You won't get any kind of compatibility with note-taking apps, but, you can quickly send your note or whole notebook to your email as a pdf. If you want to use that pdf with your note taking apps or the like on your tablet, it's really straightforward. I imagine this is something that Amazon will add at a later date. Very important was the ability to mark-up pdfs. I do a lot of writing and research, and look at a lot of pdfs. I usually print them out and mark them up, because I care more about my comfort than trees. I don't have to do that, now. For ebooks and the like, you have a sticky note feature, which opens a box for you to write a note and then the box closes, like adding a comment in Word. For the peer-reviewed papers I download, I make sure they are in pdf and then just send them to my kindle using email. It isn't hard, and anyone making it out to be is missing something completely, like how to use email. Compose a new email, drag your pdfs to it, send it to your kindle email. On the pc, and I think the kindle app now, too, you can just drag and drop on amazon, too. It is painless. Once the pdfs are on my kindle, I can mark them up as if I'm writing on the pages, just like the notebook feature. So, this has been worth it to me. Load it up with pdfs, I'm able to read through them and mark them up, send them back to myself through email if I want. So, for me, this is great. I also got the discount for trading in my old kindle, so the price point was very reasonable. I don't need flashy. I don't need colors or brushes to paint with. I just needed something I could use to mark up pdfs and read my kindle books, and not have to charge EVERY DAY. Probably won't have to charge it every week. The battery life is magnificent. Ill say that again.... The battery life is magnificent. I've used it for 5 hours straight, including using the notebook a lot, and I've lost 2% of the battery. I'll leave it to others to complain about the price, or the writing not having enough features, or whatever else they want to complain about. I do not use the kindle to surf the web, because I have a computer, a tablet, and a phone, and I do not need to use it as a digital artist. My doodles are pretty impressive, but that's the most I need to get out of it. 1) I don't have to jack around with books, kindle has the best access and the best library and I want it to be easy and 2) I can mark my stuff up without having to charge my pen or my tablet. That's all I need and this Kindle has delivered. Edit: I see reviews about the little notebook tool bar thing hanging out on the margin of your page, including a picture with it circled. It's pretty easy to hide, click those three buttons at the top and HIDE THE TOOLBAR. Not rocket surgery at all. There are a lot of reviews complaining about features that they don't understand, or complaining about something not being a feature....when it actually is. So, do your research before believing any reviews, mine included. It's a lot of money to spend or not spend based on the opinion of people who may not use it like you would want to or who are complete morons who can't figure out how to use it.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2022 by AJ