AmazonKindle Scribe (32 GB) – Redesigned display with uniform borders. Now write directly on books and documents. With built-in notebook summarisation. Includes Premium Pen – Tungsten GreyRecycled Content Certification for Electrical and Electronic Equipment

Let me tell you what I like about the KS(1) Screen clarity and contrast(2) Screen clarity and contrast(3) Screen clarity and contrast (and front light)(4) Writing note experience - pen is nice in weight, lag imperceptible, Smart Button and erasers work well. I don’t ever find myself pressing the smart button accidentally and I have big hands - perfectly placed with just the right pressure sensitivity(5) Having my Kindle library for study / serious books. I think when I read for leisure the Paperwhite is best(6) The pen menu in note taking is minimalist and fits with the distraction free ethos those of us who have epaper devices are after. I have had 3 others now, all returned and all disappointed. I can’t tell you their makes but one from the most famous in this space (liked; minimalism and file management, didn’t like no front light and 227DPI a bit scratchy - you can’t unsee the pixels - yes, my OCD and your MMV) and the others poor screen contrast too black or colour on grey. KS is really easy on the eyes.These devices are not a bundle of Pros and Cons of which screen quality is one alongside software, eco system, etc. Screen is all that matters first. If it passes that, go to step 2. If not the rest doesn’t matter!(7) I really like the design. slim and good weight. Understated and elegant.(8) Kindles own sleeve (I got the fabric effect one) is really nice to hold and the choice of a top rather than side hinge works great and well done Amazon for the pen loop. Magnet is great but in a bag it would fall off.(9) How they manage screen refresh - whole screen or around the eraser … they’ve got this right where avery other one I’ve tried has ghosting problemsWhat is not so good?(1) Switching between reading library and notebooks - too many steps. Off screen swipe up or two finger swipe to a switcher could be used?(2) When deleting an active canvas (or anything) delete? Yes. Are you sure you want to delete? Yes. Don’t put in the second step. I told the screen I wanted to delete. Done.(3) It froze after one active canvas and needed a re-boot which isn’t fast (about a minute?)(4) a split screen option to write notes beside studying book in library (in landscape)(5) When you highlight text in a book on an iOS device kindle app one option is ‘copy’ the quote. Can’t do that here. Why not? Be supper cool to be able to do that and paste into a note you’re working on….Notice something? Every limitation I’ve got is software and every ‘compliment’ is hardware. If the former can be changed with updates, and of course it could - can’t wait for the promised big margin thing for notes which I would prefer to active canvas (a rival has this and its a good fix) - the balance shifts even further to Pros over Cons. But if you but something with a dull screen, or no front light if you need it, no software update will sort that.Which brings me to Amazon’s marketing / PR failure, and a plea to think carefully, dear would be purchaser. If you look at the reviews of the KS 2022 almost all 5 stars. And of the KS 2024 almost all low stars, and many one. Why? everyone loved the first because it never claimed to offer AI. In the second better hardware and software, failed only because it didn’t offer the AI in non USA markets. Over promise, under deliver. If you can see past this, you will love the KS 2024. If AI comes to the UK great!! But for me without it, it is perfect for what I want it to be and do. I honestly can’t believe any AI could manage my handwriting anyway. I’m really impressed.———————————-Just another thought (Amazon!?) the orientation self sorts for portrait either way after inverting the device. But to set to landscape takes 5 steps/taps. I switch between them a lot for different tasks. Couldn’t this be automatic with an orientation lock to prevent of reading lying down?? Thanks Amazon!

I'd been going back and forward on an e-ink tablet for a while now, but couldn't make up my mind about which one suited my needs best. It's hard because until I have an e-ink tablet, I won't know all the ways that I might utilise it.I'd been comparing a Boox Note Air 4, reMarkable 2, and the Kindle Scribe.What made my mind up was the ease at which I'd be able to read my Kindle library on the scribe, take notes in books that I am reading, and annotate PDFs that I send to the device. In the end I realised that the other options on the market were wither way too overpowered for my needs (Boox) or were missing critical features I didn't want to live without (reMarkable has no backlight).Pros: Lighter than I imagined. Wouldn't want to read a book for a long time holding it, but it's perfectly manageable for reading. Backlight is very clear, auto adjusts and can be set from cool to warm or something in between. The screen is crisp and clear. Even very close to it, the writing looks like actual pen - with little to no pixelation visible. From a standard writing distance, it's indistinguisable.Writing experience is really good. Screen is lightly textured so it's not as slick or 'slide-y' as using a stylus on a tablet or phone screen. There's a pleasant tactile experience to writing, and unlike a stylus on a tablet, I find my writing style being a little slower - which in turn makes it far more readable.There are plenty of writing options; pen, fountain pen, pencil, felt tip, all with different tip sizes to adjust to what you want. It remembers the size setting for each writing implement separately, so if you like pencil at smallest, but pen at medium, it remembers that.I love the pen and the eraser tip. The quick function button is great too (have mine set to highlighter).Summarisation tool is really good, fairly accurate and useful for compressing several pages of my writing into a single page that's more legible (which in turn I can then further write/doodle on).A standard undo option is great for removing an errant mark that the eraser would have trouble removing (without removing something you want to keep, I mean).Battery life is pretty decent. Getting about a week and a half's use out of it before it needs a charge.Web browser is fast and decent. Viewing news websites feels a little like reading a newspaper.Cons:Document organisation. You can create folders and folders within folders, and so on - which is great for creating structure, but that's about it. You can't create shortcuts to notebooks that are several folders down from your current poistion. When you send PDFs or Word DOCs to the Kindle, they appear in your book library like any other book. You can add them to collections to keep them tidier, but that's about it. They'll always be littered among your books in your library.Summarisation can only summarise writing. It can't tidy up diagrams or flowcharts you've created - even if they have text in them. That's not a unique problem with the Scribe. Most other similar devices struggle to understand shapes beyond square, triangle, circle. It also only offers adding the summary page at the very start or very end, with no option to select any other position (although you can immediately open the doc overview and move it whereever you want).Copying across notebooks. You just can't. You can move pages around within a notebook, or select sections with the lasso and move them around with a cut/copy/paste. But you cannot move anything from one notebook to another.It doesn't remember (and has no option to enable this) the last used writing tool in different notebooks. If I switch from note taking with a pen, and go to a book where I've been drawing with a pencil, the pen tool is still selected. I admit this is a minor annoyance.You can't set the quick button on the pen to the eraser. I know you're thinking "Why would you need to, there's one on the other end" but it's a wide tip. Using the eraser tool from the menu and the fine tip of the pen can erase very fine detail that the "rubber" end can't. Again - minor annoyance, easily rectified by using the menu to change tool.Neither Pro nor Con:Not sure if this is a pro or a con, it depends on how you view it I suppose. It's a rather bare bones device in terms of what they've added above what a standard Kindle has. That means no distractions, which is great, but also means it won't have features you might find useful. reMarkable has more writing tools for example, and the Boox has the entire Android store available to add new apps as needed.This one is something they all suffer from: It's hard to draw straight lines. On paper you can use the natural resistance of the material to help. There isn't that here. With a bit of proactise, you can put reasonable boxes around key text you want to highlight.

Returning due to lack of support for retrieving Scribe Notebooks to another device such as a PC.What a waste of time & money. The Scribe looks beautiful, is easy to use, writes well. But what happens when you want to review those notebooks on a PC & make use of them?Nothing but frustration. Kindle App on PC? You can only review your Kindle book library. Kindle App on Android? Read Only. Given this is marketed as a note taking device, what has failed within Amazon to not deliver an easy way to sync notebooks? Returning the item.