Amazon Kindle Scribe (16 GB) - 10.2” 300 ppi Paperwhite display, a Kindle and a notebook all in one, convert notes to text and share, includes Premium Pen

I’ve had my scribe for a few weeks now and while I rarely write reviews, thought I would for this since I’ve had kindles since they came out. First, I’ve had kindles hd and the paperwhite and while I like the paperwhite better for my eyes, I’ve not found one I consistently used one, since the kindle DX (which only recently died), because the screens were so small. I have trouble with my eyes and need to enlarge the print, so the small kindles really don’t work as well for me. That said, I still have a kindle hd with my scribe. I haven’t tried the website on the scribe — I don’t see it — and I like to be able to look things up based on what I read as I’m reading so that is an advantage to the hd. I’ll have to see about the web browser on the scribe when I find it (I missed the return date on the hd too, so that’s why I have it. I love the larger size of the scribe. This and the pencil are what really sold me. I feel like I have my dx back (off only it had cellular!!!), my favorite kindle ever. It allows me to enlarge the font based on how my eyes feel, which is great when I pass the 3 hour mark. I also love the ability to change the screen from grey to a warmer color. I am one who prefers warmer colors to cool colors, so that’sa nice thing they added. What I most like is the ability to take handwritten notes and to have the notes you’ve taken across books collected together into one notebook. I need to play with this more, but I’ma writer, so this feature is amazing for me for many reason. I start with a vague idea that different books not necessarily having anything to do with each other May actually be put together to form a premise, so to have mother from those books smushed together is incredibly helpful. That’s basically how I would organize my hard paper research. I don’t know if this is possible but if not, this would be a great update, and that is to create collections of notes in different notebooks, to create a collection of books and then have a notebook within that collection with all the notes for the books in that collection. That would be pretty easy to code. Finally the pencil. I love it. I love it so much better for writing than my Apple Pencil. I feel like I’m writing on paper. It’s beautiful. I like the Apple Pencil for things like procreate and my scribe for taking notes. I’m left handed and I usually don’t have problems. Every now and then my palm will change it from a handwritten note to a text note, but it’s not a big deal. I use the pencil to tap on handwritten note and it puts me back. As a lefty you get used to dealing with these things. I’ve had worse problems trying to write in apps. I also tried the oasis. It was nice. It also worked with my eyes. The buttons for the pages was a nice added touch. It is small, but it makes great use of the real estate available on the page. I was a little frustrated because I twice ordered the cellular version and both times received the Wi-Fi version, so I gave up on the oasis and bought the scribe, which I hadn’t bought because it was Wi-Fi. I’m so glad I did. Aliso, I’m case you don’t know, you can change your kindle address to something simple like [email protected], so it’s easy to tell someone where to send documents or books to you (and easier to send things to yourself). If all you want to do is read books, the oasis is fabulous. If you like having things in color and want the ease of a quick Internet to research concepts you read about, the hd is great. If you like to research and like the idea of having your notes from different books collected in one notebook, or would appreciate a larger screen, or would enjoy a writing experience, the scribe is great. There’sa kindle out there to meet just about everyone’s needs. (I’m posting without proofing, so please forgive typos.)

There is only one con: it's not waterproof. It's 2025, why isn't waterproof technology the industry standard?? Anywho. This is hands down the single best purchase I have ever made. I've been dreaming of this ever since 1999 when I won a Game Boy off a Mountain Dew bottle top at a Thunder Skate USA facility. It came with a game called Wave Rider. It was because of that infuriating game that I realized my true nature- I'm a nerdy book worm to the core. Why couldn't this game be a book? The Kindle Scribe is a childhood dream come true! My favorite feature of this device is the notebooks. I have journaled since I was 8 years old. I'm now 35. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to keep nosy noses from rifling through your most private paper thoughts? I do. I had taken to burning my journals after filling them up. No need to literally hang on to my mind garbage. I have always had too many thoughts taking up space in my head, creating the need to jot them down and make them go away. Now, with the Scribe, I can click a button and the brain baggage is instantly destroyed. No more wasting paper (the poor trees!) No more searching (and stealing!) perfect pen to write with. The Scribe comes with the perfect pen! A forever pen! I got the basic pen. A basic pen for a basic... you know. The fountain pen feature is revolutionary! I've been "perfecting" my penmanship for decades and still write little better than a chicken's left foot. Woe is me and any who have to read my scratch. No more! The best part is that the ink never runs out, it always writes perfectly smooth. I also love how big this Kindle is. I'm blind as a butt in blue jeans, so this size is a huge plus for me. With my OG Kindle, setting the font to large yielded only a few sentences per page making me feel like I was back in pre school learning to read. No more! Other bonuses- I had signed up for a free month of Kindle Unlimited before ordering the Scribe. When I did order, it came with THREE months of free KU! A total of FOUR FREE MONTHS! But it got better. I ordered an OG Kindle for my mom (who is not as blind as a butt in blue jeans) and it came with another THREE MONTHS OF FREE KU! A grand total SEVEN MONTHS OF FREE KU! I was over the moon! I had also found it on sale (January of 2024) for $270. I put an $80 dollar gift card toward it and it brought my total down to $204! Woohoo! I ordered a fancy flippy pink adjustable magnetic cover for it separately. I am in love with this device. Never have issues with battery life or charging. I will say this though; I think the Scribe was marketed to the wrong demographic. I abhor writing on books, highlighting, dog-earing, and otherwise desecrating books, so I don't give a hoot in a hay storm about the sticky notes debacle other reviewers take issue with. I use this for pure entertainment purposes; sometimes I switch from reading to simply scribbling my brains out for the fun of it. Seriously. I have no idea if this is a good buy for work related tasks and I don't care. It's perfect for keeping track of what the one year old is eating, doodle notebooks for the nine year old, and reading and scribbling until there's drool pooling and crusting at the corners of my mouth for me. Like I said, it's a childhood dream come true! The only way I'd come off my Scribe is if they made a new one that is waterproof. Which reminds me- I got the software update of the new one! Thanks amazon! Seriously, best 200 bucks I've ever spent. A year of daily use and zero complaints (except the waterproof issue- grr *shakes fist*.) I can't recommend this enough. This is THE Cadillac of reading/ writing toys for adults!

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.

This is probably the most in-depth review I've made for an Amazon order. First, I absolutely love my Scribe. I was torn between this and the Remarkable 2 but decided to go with this because I'm also an avid reader with lots of Kindle books already...so that only made sense. So, as i mentioned in the title, this is a great little device for specific users. If you do a lot of drawing/sketching or graphic arts stuff, the Scribe (with the latest update) may disappoint. For heavy artistic stuff, I'd look more towards an iPad, MS Surface, etc. However, if you read a lot and need something that provides a medium to take plenty of notes, the Scribe is excellent. I take TONS of notes for work. To the point that I keep my old spiral-bound notebooks in a drawer in my office with dates of when I started and finished them. This method became unsustainable with lost notebooks during moves, pages torn out by kids cause they needed some "scratch paper", etc. I've only had this thing for about 2 weeks but I've already put it through the wringer for note taking. Books are excellent as you would expect from a Kindle and I've found the battery life is pretty decent, although not quite as good as, say, my Paperwhite. However, if there are any people @Amazon reading this, there are some improvements I really wish it had; and hope/think they could be added with future updates: - Bluetooth keyboard support - Landscape mode in notebooks - Lasso copy and paste - Ability to change the template for individual pages within a notebook - Shapes (like squares, circles, etc.) - Select and copy images/text from PDFs or books into notebooks - Make highlights and written notes in books - I bought the book...I should be able to write in it if I want. - OCR handwriting to text conversion - especially when sending notes via email - Save PDFs to folders instead of having to store them in your library - Ability to move the writing tool other than the default left and right side. I'd rather it be in a far upper right or lower left corner. As it is, I have to alternate the tool position from left to right once I'm about 1/3 down the page. - Save individual pages of notebooks as a new notebook (for example, I start taking notes in a notebook and on the 5th page, I start taking notes from a phone conference that turns into something completely unrelated to the rest of the notebook. It would be great if I could start a new notebook and choose existing pages of other notebooks to include in it.) A couple of bugs/weird things that I've noticed: - Sometimes, while writing a sentence, the last couple of letters will "erase" or just disappear. I've figured out that tapping the eraser once on the screen makes it reappear again. Not a huge deal, but is annoying cause it forces you to break concentration to correct it and restart. - Depending on where you place your hand when writing, you'll accidentally skip to a new page while writing. As above, not a big deal, but annoying. Maybe some setting to double-tap to start a new page or something would help. Anyway, overall, I think the Scribe is great for my needs and really look forward to what they can do with future software updates.

I've been searching for an e-ink tablet for a while. I tried the Remarkable, Boox, and now Scribe. After reading comparisons of the Scribe and Remarkable, I thought I would be disappointed in the Scribe since many reviewers preferred the Remarkable. I wasn't! I sent the Remarkable back for reasons I'll detail below. I never really got to try the Boox; it didn't come with the app, and I always got an error message when I tried to download it, so that went back as well. Also, the meager instructions for it are truly awful. The Scribe has been a pleasant surprise -- I've found it to be much more responsive and user-friendly than the Remarkable. Please note: I'm only using the Scribe for the notebook function; I haven't used it yet as a Kindle. My needs are pretty simple. I wanted an e-ink tablet to deal with all the clutter on my desk. I have to take a lot of notes, especially from phone conversations and Zoom meetings, and I end up with lots of notes scattered around. Yellow pads didn't work, and putting them in file folders to be stored in a file cabinet ensured they would be lost! An e-notebook was my solution, and it's worked really well. One of my issues from the start with the Remarkable was a problem with battery charging. I reported it to customer service and they wrote back with a list of things to do. None of them fixed the problem, so they sent me a link to sent it back for repair. I filled out the required information, and a few days later, got a message from their tech. dept. saying that "my request" had been denied! They sent me a list of more things to try, including one that involved buying a new cable. I wasn't about to pay more for this already expensive device. I clicked on the link they sent to respond, and it turned out to be a page for starting the process with customer service all over again! At that point, I threw up my hands and decided to return it. Some differences I've noted: On my Remarkable, swiping often didn't work the first time, even though I swiped exactly where customer service told me to. Moving from page to page could be laborious. The Scribe is lightning fast. In general, the Remarkable functions seemed clunkier and slower. I find the writing "feel" to be the same, though again, the Scribe seems more responsive in general. Maybe my Remarkable was a lemon, but dealing with customer service was so frustrating that I didn't want to pursue it. I liked the screen size on the Remarkable better. It's a little bigger, and I wish the Scribe were the same. The Scribe doesn't charge for a subscription. It bothered me that after a year with Remarkable, I'd have to start paying a monthly fee. The on/off button on the Scribe seems to be in a weird place, but I can live with that. By the way, Remarkable is located in Norway, so it takes a couple of days to get a response from customer service. Also, when you buy it, they don't tell you they are in Norway -- if you pay with a bankcard, you can get charged for a foreign transaction fee (in my case $16.00 which my bank waived when I complained). As I said, my needs are pretty simple, and the Scribe has been perfect for giving me a clutter-free desk!

I love my other Kindles (Signature Paperwhite and Oasis). And I REALLY wanted and tried hard to love this one and find a way to incorporate it into my day to day because, like many, the idea to combine my books, my audible, and the myriad notebooks I carry around (and lose) in a single tablet is a trifecta experience. But Generation 1 is definitely not worth it. I was able to get it substantially cheaper thanks to a holiday sale and a trade in, and if it's not worth it at almost 50% off, it's definitely not worth it at full price. Here's why. Using it as a paper notebook replacement is cumbersome, unintuitive, and time consuming. If you imagine how many people work - a textbook, laptop, or other resource on one side and a notebook for taking notes on the other, that's a process familiar to most and flows well. My thinking was that "Finally, I can keep all my notes well organized, add more details to my highlights, etc." We'll, you can't. This Kindle works the same as every kindle or fire tablet when taking notes - you highlight, add the note, with the only difference here being that you can do so with a Stylus. The real problem is that this space is limited to what you see in the picture. Even on the other kindle platforms you can type forever, or use voice, to make long notes. Here, you can't - you're limited to that tiny tiny space and can't expand it. Basically, this equates to replacing your paper notebook with tiny post it notes. It's completely impractical to say the least. You also can't change the background of this area like you can in the "notebook" support, which means no dotted or lines, etc. You're literally cramming everything onto the digital version of a Post-it-Note. So then I thought, "Ok, I'll setup a notebook and just switch between the book and the notebook, and at least the notebook will let me write as much as I want / as many pages / page background theme, etc. But no, there is no way to seamlessly switch between the book you're referencing and this kindle's notebook feature. You have to close the book, start up a notebook, find the page where the note should go, close it, start the book back up again, and keep going. If you made a manual reference in your notebook as to where in the book this is relevant, this reference becomes completely useless the minute you change your font size or orientation. As a Japanese language student, I was particularly excited about being able to practice kanji as I can't imagine acres of trees that have died just so I can practice writing characters. And, I was particularly excited that I could do so on the page of the Japanese textbook I was referencing. But alas, no again. For some reason this kindle would not work well with my eTextbooks. Some would not open, some I characters wouldn't show up. Performance wise, this tablet is abysmal. When under small to moderate load, the time it takes for pen strokes to register can be counted in full seconds. Switching screens, opening books, etc, are noticeably slower compared to other kindle versions. For students especially who need to take more notes that will fill a sticky note, and for language students especially too, this tablet completely misses the mark. The software, in general, is lacking considerably with relatively few options compared to competing eInk tablets. Amazon says so itself in the project description with comments like "Regular software updates." I want this tablet to work so all my Amazon subscriptions, books, etc, and all my notes / notebooks can accompany me, so I'll Try Gen 2 when it comes out. Honestly, this version feels like a pre-release alpha version or prototype a small group would use to give feedback on. It was released way too early and in no way is it ready for the wild. To overcome the shortcomings, I sent it back, and I use my oasis with my Remarkable 2, which feels much more natural, with my Oasis. Well, at least I'm down to two high quality products in the meantime, but looking forward to seeing if Amazon can revamp this to make it an equally usable environment. Aside from the tablet itself, I must say, the "Premium Leather Cover" that comes with the bundle is just junk. I wouldn't pay 71 cents for it much less 71 dollars. Imagine the thickness of a normal piece of leather. Amazon shaved that into 100 layers and pasted it on cardboard, and the other side is felt (so not an all leather case). It really is disappointing what a low quality item they tried to throw into making their "bundle." I'll be buying a 3rd party cover for it if I checkout later generations.

Why is it that by now we don't have a decent replacement for paper? Don't believe what you hear about either the Scribe or the Remarkable 2. Both of them suck compared to plain old paper and pen. It's not even really the stylus input - that part works fairly well. It's the rest of the note-taking and drawing software - almost unusable. I planned on using the scribe as a full replacement for books - both in normal reading and in studying. I've been interested in both higher end math and microbiology, and have found some free PDF books that are available online and are really some of the best for learning these subjects. My plan was to download the PDF versions of these documents to the scribe, then work through them, highlighting and taking notes directly on the PDF's as I go. This is a capability the scribe supposedly has. But, the usability of it sucks. First of all, I didn't find out until after I purchased the scribe that it is limited to PDF document sized of under 80MB! Now why would they limit a PDF document to only 80MB when the device itself has 32GB of storage? But, it gives an error and will not let you transfer documents that are larger (even by a slight amount). So then I tried editing a smaller PDF document on it. Very clunky. I can't just draw on top of the PDF. I have to touch somewhere in the PDF, then a window comes up where I draw what I want in the window. Then when I close the window it appears in the document as a small paper looking icon that must be clicked on to see the drawing. How can I truly take notes and highlight items in these documents with this? Basically - SUCKS! So far, the best tablet I have used for this type of studying and note taking on PDF's are the Samsung tablets with their stylus (such as the S6 lite with S Pen - just slightly more than $200. on Amazon). This tablet's built in note taking app can read and write PDF's (very large PDFs as well). And, once loaded, the interface to take notes over top of the PDF is very smooth and well polished. After opening a PDF document, just simply click on either the pen icon or highlighter icon. Then start drawing on the PDF document. There's no window that pops up - the notes just appear in the document as you would expect. Click the highlighter and then click in the document and swipe across to highlight. Simple. And, if you click again on either the pen icon or the highlighter icon a small window pops up with tons of details that you can easily change (from color of pen to pen size to pen type to pressure sensitivity - similar options with the highlighter). When done, just click save and the PDF document is saved with all of your notes, drawings, and highlights intact and viewable. I also tested opening the PDF document with normal PDF reader application and all of the notes, drawings, and highlights showed up perfectly in that as well. Simple and effective. The only negative aspect of using that tablet for this purpose is the weight. While the tablet is very well made and feels sturdy it weighs quite a bit more than a scribe or remarkable - maybe a bit too heavy for normal book or PDF reading. As a possible compromise I would recommend getting the Samsung tablet for studying and taking notes, and maybe also purchasing a cheaper Kindle paperwhite for just normal book reading. Beware though that the Kindle Scribe is a very clunky device for PDF editing and note taking - I would recommend staying away from it (until maybe some time has went by and Amazon spends the effort to make the interface work as it should).

Update January 4, 2025. I turned on my Kindle Scribe to jot down a note, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a new software upgrade that made my old scribe appear shiny and new. I'd read some articles that said the software upgrade was going to happen but I was skeptical because why wouldn't Amazon want to make customers upgrade to the newest model. The more I have used my scribe the more I like it. Now with the upgraded features I like it all the more. Now my scribe does most of the things I wished it could do when I wrote my first review. I am appreciative of Amazon making the updates in the new Kindle scribe available to us early adopters of the scribe. Because of what you have done I'll likely be a Kindle e-book/notebook customer for life. Review completed early 2024 The Kindle Scribe does a lot but not everything I wish it could do. My first focused use of the Scribe was the notebook. I took notes from a physical paperback math book (not available digitally) and then worked practice problems at the end of the section/chapter using the Scribe as my pencil and paper. The scribe's screen froze on me many times and the only way to fix the situation was to restart the Kindle. This seemed to happen most often when I was using the lasso tool to copy and paste something to a new page. When taking notes, I'm disappointed that I cannot copy text and paste it into the sticky note. The only way to do this is to type or write the quote on the sticky note and if the note covers up the text you can't do that without writing the quote on a piece of paper and then typing it into the sticky note. When creating a new notebook, you can choose a template, however, every page in the notebook will have the same template. You cannot change templates within a notebook- that I know of. You can type a sticky note and write a sticky note in the same location, but you cannot write and type on the same sticky note. I wish I could paste a quote on a sticky note and then write my thoughts about the quote all on the same sticky note. Having to always tap the hand or the pen to switch from writing to the ability to turn to the next page is a nuisance. I found it interrupted my writing flow to have to tap to switch to the hand, then tap to turn the page, then tap to change back to pen to write. However, I will say that the more I executed this page turn/write sequence the less bothersome it became. I wish that a page turn tap could exist at the bottom corners of the page so all you'd have to do is tap to turn the page and then keep writing. I also noticed that with using the notebook, the battery drains faster. This is a Kindle I know listening and reading books is going to be great! I haven't done that much yet as I wanted to see if the notebook would meet my need to write notes and complete practice exercises. It can and it does a good job of that, I no longer need scratch paper when solving equations. I think with the integration of other apps like Readwise and Notion I'll be able to read write/type my thoughts, and consolidate it all into a central location that I can refer to when needed. Finally, I understand that the Kindle Scribe is a tool. As with any other tool you have to know when/how to use it to get the the most benefit from it. This is not at the level where it replaces the ease of writing with paper and pencil- in my opinion. (It probably took me twice as long to write notes and do practice problems on the Kindle vs writing with pencil and paper.) The Scribe does make it easier along with other tools to find what you write so that you can further synthesize your thoughts into concise, pithy summaries you can locate and review at a later date. At least that's what I'm hoping it will do. I concede that since this was my first time using the notebook, I had a bit of a learning curve. With time it may not take me as long to write with the Scribe. I rated the Kindle Scribe a 5 because it does what it says it will do. It just doesn't do all the things I wish it would do- yet. It does a lot, but don't throw your pencil and paper away.