Kindle Scribe (2022 release) - 16 GB, the first Kindle and digital notebook, all in one, with a 10.2" 300 ppi Paperwhite display, with built-in notebook summarisation. Includes Basic Pen

I've had the Kindle scribe for seven months now (Since it's first launched) I thought it would be good idea to let potential buyers, who are considering which e-tablet to get to know what's been going on. since my Dec 22 update, a lot has changed, and all for the better. Every one of my wishes that I thought might have improved the Kindle Scribe, has been met with its three updates, plus much much more! It's almost on par with the remarkable, only the remarkable can't increase its lagging 226 ppi or a backlight. Amazon has promised to continue regular updates, so to me it's quite clear there may be additional updates, like possibly rotating objects with the lasso and or the addition of shapes. we definitely have 3.5 more years of potential updates, that I'm confident that Amazon will deliver. I use my scribe every day without fail, wether its just to jot down reminders, drawing or brainstorming ideas that my old brain might forget. All I have to do to start reading or writing, is the open the cover, just like opening a book! Because it's only asleep, it takes about a second to wake up and be ready for whatever you want to read, write or draw . I know it's never going to let me down for insufficient power, due to its amazing battery, that lasts for weeks. I love this thing and its with me day or night. After seven months, it really is still my favourite gadget and I'm unashamed of being a geek. For potential buyers, I can only say, what are you waiting for? buy it before the price goes up. Dec 22 Update For about a year now I've been longing for a product like this, since my brother introduced me to his Remarkable 2. Although he kept on telling me it might be better to buy an iPad because it can do a lot more. It did not put me off, because I wanted a product, that I could write on, that didn't feel like writing on glass like my tablet/laptop does. If like me, you want a product that's distraction free, without all the gimmicks, you should consider the Kindle scribe. The Photos and videos do not give the Scribe any justice, it's elegant and stylish. Its got quality written over it when you touch and hold it. I have an old kindle voyage, but because its a bit slow and clunky, I really stopped using it. But the Scribe has re-energised my reading again, and most of all no more yellow post it notes everywhere!! Honestly the writing is incredible; it looks, feels and sounds like writing on paper, only that you have an endless supply of it. (you can't get any greener than that) and no mess. I always screw up my messages in Christmas and birthday cards, but now I just write on the scribe first, then copy what i've written. Sure it can do with more features, like different pressure and shading on the pencil, because I like to doodle when I'm on the phone sometimes, and shading will be useful for drawing. But don't let that put you off, because that can be easily remedied with firmware upgrade. My brother told me his remarkable needed a few upgrades too, however its not 300ppi or doesn't have any backlight, something a firmware update cannot fix. I went for the 64GB version because I have hundreds of large PDF files on my Nas drive, however it only took up 9GB! amazing! So I'd recommend the 32GB version because of he Pen, but trust me 16Gb is more than enough for most people unless you use Audible books. If you are looking for something like an iPad, I'm afraid this isn't. Its not meant to be! But if like me you wanted something that's not wasting paper like a real paperless office, with the ability to read thousand of books of different formats (which the remarkable can't do, but it can read Epubs), with the most LEDs and best PPI e Ink tablet, then look no further than the distraction free Kindle Scribe. It can be used day and night, without an exterrnal light, and with warm variable lighting to protect your eyes. It's now my favourite gadget lol.

I only got my Scribe yesterday, and I still haven't emailed any notes to myself yet, however from what I've seen it's a really good device~ I found the writing to be natural and in some ways easier and quicker than paper notebooks. (You don't have to worry about scrumpling the paper as you write, or notes bleeding through the page from the other side, obviously!) I bought it specifically to take notes and journal in, and I'm going to do a notebook per month, and keep that in a separate folder from other notes, then archive by year. That's a great feature for organisation. I'm not sure about whether drawings are transferrable to other devices yet, so I'd be interested in that, because I like to copy and paste little doodles (both in pen and highlighter) to put at the bottom of pages (because if I write to the bottom of a page I get hand cramps and my handwriting goes rubbish, though this is just a general thing, not to do with the kindle!) Re the drawings thing, I'd find it really entertaining to make little flipbooks on there, and perhaps it wouldn't take that much effort for Amazon to make a flipbook feature! (I do understand if it's not intended be be used as an artists' device though, just thought it might be a fun thing for some people!) If that were the case, it would be great if there were features like a felt-tip pen that gets a bit scribbly/faded with speed of drawing, or some colour options potentially in future models. I really like the screen~ it feels huge compared to my Paperwhite! I read voraciously, so this is great for me. I also really appreciate being able to adjust the warmth of the light, alongside the general light/dark display. This is great for night time reading as normal white screen light tends to mess with people's circadian rhythms. (Though in bed I tend to still use the older, smaller one because it's easier to hold and not drop on my face/my partner/my cat!) I bought the version with the case and fancy pen, which I do recommend. The case also has an inbuilt pen holder so you don't have to solely rely on the magnet at the side of the kindle holding it in place, e.g. when travelling. I would suggest that next time Amazon does a promo with multiple items however, that they include a matte screen protector as well. And perhaps earphones? One thing that could be improved is that I'd like a wired (mini jack) earphone connection because bluetooth earbuds give me headaches. Mind you, I don't even know if you can listen to audiobooks from this device because I haven't actually tried it due to my oldschool ways! Haha. So please disregard that if it isn't relevant. Maybe there's some earphones I could plug in if they had the right connector? Not sure how all that actually works yet. Perhaps someone in the know could reply and inform me? Or I'll investigate. Really helpful tool for songwriting and poetry, because you can freeflow whilst in a creative state, then copy the whole page and reorder lines/verses for when you're ready to edit things, which involves a different brain-mode~ for me at least! Also if you're writing chords to go above lyrics you can do them in a different font and size them to whatever seems convenient/legible. (Colour feature would be useful here as well potentially.) I really like that there's a music notation preset format as well! (I've not tried it yet but it's a total unexpected bonus! I wonder if this could be transferable to Sibelius or Logic, for example? Might be a really good thing for music students.) Overall, I'm really happy with the Kindle Scribe. I particularly enjoy doing random doodles/one liner notes on a blank page and then resizing them and shuffling them about. It's very satisfying to see a whole page of various brain-dribblings in various fonts and sizes like a real notebook but neater and without any crossings out.

Pros. Got this primarily for taking notes in work as I tend to scribble a lot during meetings. Have to say the feel of writing in this is like writing on expensive paper, and it picks up everything I write perfectly. Very impressed so far. Additionally; the kindle function which i use it a lot for is brilliant. Page is huge so feels like a real page, much more than the smaller version I was currently using. Battery life is brilliant and very handy for carrying around to meetings and general Cons. Price obviously is very high. Got amazon voucher for bday so was not that bad but if you paying straight up it's heavy amount to spend on essentially a kindle and notepad. The transcribe to text function is good for the most part but you still have e to review and change when sent as it will miss things especially when writing fast notes. Sending the notes as well, not as straightforward as they state, took me some goes to figure out best way and I'm not adverse to technology. TLDR: very nice, handy notebook. Feels like paper. Does what it says on the tin with great kindle function. Very expensive and not as straightforward to send notes

I have been looking at the Kindle Scribe and Remarkable 2 for some time and was a bit torn as to which one to get. A friend has the Remarkable 2 so I had seen one of them but I'd not set eyes on the Scribe. I do have quite a few Kindle books but have never actually owned a Kindle and that was one of my primary reasons for leaning towards the Scribe. I read a lot of Scribe reviews early days and they all seemed to say the hardware was great but the software was lacking so I just kept an eye on the reviews as steadily Amazon added the features people were longing for. Prime day arrived and I took the plunge on a 32GB Kindle Scribe with the Premium pen and got a fairly cheap case (£16) to go with it. I am so glad I did because I have been using it a heck of a lot. Reading: I have probably read more recently than I have in years. I take it to read when I am sat in the car waiting for the kids at their clubs, much better than the laptop and phone I used to take with me. I have been using it to read in bed which I have probably not done for over 30 years. The backlit screen is great for reading in bed because I don't wake the wife. Writing: I work in cyber security and spend most of my day on a laptop or in meetings. Despite being a techie I still prefer making notes on paper rather than writing notes on the laptop. Downside of this is I end up with loads of paper kicking about so the main reason for getting the Scribe was to do away with the reams of paper I end up collating. I have not been disappointed at all with the writing performance. I write really small and thought it might not work so well for me but it works perfectly. I am using it all day long at work instead of paper now and an really happy with it. Organising the different notebooks is a breeze and it actually is much better than using paper pads because you can better organise your notes. Screen: Books and your own written content are very clear on the Paperwhite screen. With the back light on it literally looks like you are writing on a notepad because it is white rather than grey. I’ve been using it with the back light off in the office though as you don’t really need it in a well lit office and battery should last even longer. I have used it in the summerhouse where it was too bright to see my phone screen properly and the Kindle screen was perfectly readable. Pen: I have the premium pen and I would say it is probably worth getting for the rubber feature alone. Although it would not be the end of the world selecting the rubber tool from the menu I could see it being a bit annoying compared to just flipping the pen. The button I have configured as a highlighter but rarely use it so would not really miss that feature. I read some reviews that said the magnet is not strong enough to hold the pen but mine really snaps into place and is firmly attached when the slightly flat side is towards the Kindle. Mine is a later one so maybe Amazon have addressed this, not sure all I can say is it is more than adequate to hold the pen. Nice to haves (Amazon if you are listening): Just some things that I have either not worked out how to do yet or don’t exist. When sorting books into collections by opening the collection and selecting add/remove, it would be nice to be able to filter the list of books to add by those not already in a collection. I have a lot of books and it is very tedious to have to go through the full book list for each collection. It would be nice to be able to access the “Home, Library, Notebooks” navigation menu whilst being in a book or notebook to be able to switch between them more quickly. Overall: A great bit of kit I have no regrets in purchasing it. £300 would probably buy enough notepads and pens for life but I am glad I have this instead.

Absolutely love my scribe. I was wanting a note taking device to replace the many scraps of paper that cluttered up my desk and found out about the remarkable, but the price made me think twice. Then I found the scribe and as a much more affordable option I opted to give it a go (thinking that being able to read my kindle library would be nice too!) And I'm very impressed. Writing feels fluid and responsive. The image is clear and the size of the display is great for writing, sketching and reading books. It's nice and light too for the size. The pen is comfortable and easy to write with. I'll admit the software for notetaking is fairly basic in some respects. But it can do anything pen and paper can do, with some nice extras like a choice of linespacing or calendar templates etc. Regardless I'm so glad I picked it up. So if anyone else wants to avoid scraps of paper all accross our desk, it's a great option

I was really excited when I heard about the kindle scribe and was excited to receive it. I have a kobo sage ereader and stylus which I love but I wanted something with a bigger screen and that I could take notes on as well. I had high hopes for the kindle scribe. I received Kindle scribe yesterday and it was sent in a cardboard envelope, no protection. Thankfully ereader was not broken. The packaging kindle scribe comes in is very minimal, barely any protection, and just ereader, stylus and cable. No plug included. The kindle scribe ereader it's self is beautiful, well built, metal back, feels premium, screen is beautiful. I got the pro stylus with eraser which is very nice good weight and nice to write with. Unfortunately the software let's this device down big time. On switching this on after setting up I was greeted with a very messy home screen with my husband and childrens books all mixed with mine. There seems to be no way to just show my books. You can only read books from kindle book store on this devic, it is very restrictive. If you have a digital library card and want to borrow and read library books on this forget it, if you want to borrow books from other places including internet archive forget it you can't. This is a deal breaker for me as I do borrow a lot of Library books as well as reading alot of kindle books, and to have spent £400 on a device that cant do a simple function such as allowing you to read Library books is very poor. You can send documents and pdf files to read but it's quite a fuss. You can't just connect it to your computer and copy files over. You have to go to Amazon website and upload them to there server and send to your kindle email address, then they will appear in your Library and then you have to click to download them. Just why Amazon, why make us jump through so many hoops just to put files on device, why cant we plug in via usb and just copy over on to device. I just don't understand there reasons behind this It also only supports a limited number of file types. I tried to send some comic books to it that I have which are in .CBR format and it would not let me, it said file format not supported, every other brand of ereader I've had has supported this format. I had to convert them to another format to get them on to this kindle. So to put any of you own files on to this device it's quiet a nightmare and you have to have a internet connection. So forget transferring things if you have no internet. For reading books from kindle store it's great and screen is lovely to read on but that's all it's good for, kindle books. On to the stylus and note taking. Well if it's a kindle book from kindle store you can't write on the pages of the book. You can only write on sticky notes and then it's hard to find which note is which. Not great, quite messy really. I would have expected to be able to write notes on the pages of the books. You can write directly on pdfs, my son tested this with a pdf maths work book and it did work well for this. The notes book areas where you write notes is nice and has quiet a few paper templates. But there is no choice of pens there is just one pen type, you can just change thickness, plus there is a highlighter and eraser. Very lacking for a note taking device. The device does have a built in web browser, but it's useless, it just doesn't work. Over all I feel that this is first and foremost just a Large kindle ereader aimed at people who only want to read kindle book store books but has a big screen. It feels like the note taking was a after thought. It is lacking so many functions that many other companies devices offer at a cheaper price. I think the kindle scribe is very over priced for what it is. I would only recommend buying this if you only want to read kindle books and want a large screen, even then I would ask your self if you really need the bigger screen, it really is not worth the extra Money, really you would probably be better off just buying a cheaper smaller screen kindle ereader. And you would have money left over to buy books. There are much better options available for notetaking. It's ashame really as the Kindle scribe has so much potential and could be a truly wonderful device but its software and restrictiveness let's it down big down. I really hope they release updates to drastically improve and open up the potential of this device. But sadly right now it's not there and I'll probably be returning mine. I have already ordered a Meebook P10 pro, way more features and over £100 cheaper. Just wanted to give a update. I decided to use it for a bit longer to see if things improve, but so far it hasn't improved yet. Infact I've discovered another bad point about this device that I would like to mention. I used it to take some notes, wrote quiet a few pages then sent notes to my computer. It sends as a pdf file. When I open file on my computer I can see my notes but there are horrible Kindle watermarks on every page. The water mark is the word kindle in blue. In my opinion it's horrible and messy and makes notes look un professional. I don't want or expect to see watermark on my notes especially when paying so much for device. You expect to see water marks if your using a trial software but not when you have paid a lot of money. The water marks can not been seen on kindle scribe it's self, it's when you export notes to computer. This might not bother some people but it does bother me and I won't be using it for note taking again unless they remove the kindle water mark logo on notes.

I work in technology sales, and for the past few years many of my colleagues have made the transition from notebooks to Remarkable 2s. I've spent a lot of time with the Remarkable, and while it is no doubt an excellent device, the pricing model is extremely prohibitive - pen not included as standard, subscriptions required for cloud storage etc. Not to mention that the Remarkable is a good deal more expensive that the Scribe at the time of writing. I took advantage of black Friday to grab a Scribe with the basic pen and the Amazon folio case. I've spent a few months with the Kindle Scribe, using it every day as my primary tool for note taking. Personally, I've found it to be an absolute game changer. I have separate folders for work and personal notebooks, and I use the file structure to have notebooks for each meeting with every customer. Long gone are my days spent rummaging through several notebooks to find the specific note from a specific meeting. The writing experience is genuinely identical to a paper notebook, it has to be experienced to be believed. The ability to export handwritten notes to a text file is extremely useful, as is the ability to export documents directly from Microsoft Word to the Scribe. Transferring pdf files over (like user manuals for devices or contracts, for example) is very simple and has added to addition faff to my day-to-day workflow. Battery life is also superb - I use the device daily for work and personal use, and have had to charge it ONCE in the nearly 2 months I've had it. Personally, I wouldn't spend the extra money on the premium pen, I find the basic more than adequate and actually use the undo function more than the eraser. I would, however, highly recommend purchasing Amazon's own Folio case. It is excellent, and is well worth the cost. I honestly think any other case would significant detract from the ease of using the device. All in all, if you're stuck toiling between the Remarkable and Scribe as I was, I'd heartily recommend the Kindle Scribe. From my experience with both, unless there a serious, very specific feature that you need from the Remarkable, the Scribe is the way to go. Even then, given the rate of software updates, I suspect the Scribe may surpass the Remarkable in functionality soon anyway.

When Amazon launched the Kindle I was living in Australia and had to wait for some time for Amazon to release the Kindle there. I think it was about 2009, a year or two after it was launched in the US. From its very first US launch I knew I wanted one and when it became available in Australia I got one and it was everything I hoped it would be. I felt like I was on board the USS Enterprise from the Next Generation, I loved it. It had a physical keyboard and big chunky page turn buttons, things I miss today. Then I saw Amazon had released a big Kindle, the DX. I never owned one but I did get to play with one. An American colleague had one. I worked as a university lecturer and spent a lot of time reading journal articles my library had photocopied for me. They were also able to scan them and make PDFs. I yearned to read them on my beloved Kindle but on my little Kindle it just wasn’t a good experience. My colleague and I would sit and read PDFs on his DX. At the time I was still, foolishly, clinging on to my old Nokia phone and old and trusty PalmPilot. Reading on his DX we’d often point to things with a pen, so we could concentrate on certain parts of the document. It was fun to study documents that way, then one day I left my PalmPilot on the table next to the DX and we both looked at it and looked at each other. Basically we’d both invented the idea of the Scribe (so Amazon you can mail the royalty check any time :)). When Amazon did launch the Scribe I looked at some reviews and they all said to wait, it was a proof of concept but not a finished product, apparently it lacked some key features. Having played with the DX I knew the concept was great but I waited until now. I just purchased a Scribe and it is exactly what I wanted all those years ago. The only minor complaint is having to load my PDFs using the ‘Send to Kindle’ website or email them if I want to annotate and write on them, which I do. I can’t just hook it up to a computer and side load documents and use them. Minor, as it currently works ok. I love the various pen options and everything Amazon has added over the last year or so. Notebooks are great on the Scribe, I especially love the email export options, with OCR turning my handwritten notes to typed text, pretty accurately too. But the killer feature is the sending my notebooks as scannable PDFs. I love the Scribe, it’s not only the best Kindle I’ve ever had (and I currently have a 6th Gen Paper White and Kindle Oasis models) it is also the best note taking device I’ve used (iPad and BOOX Note Air). In just a year it has gone from a proof of concept device that had loads of promise to an incredible device thanks to just a few software updates, (the hardware was always fantastic) I can only imagine what the future of the Scribe holds and I’m looking forward to using this device for many years to come.