Kindle Scribe (16 GB), the first Kindle and digital notebook, all in one, with a 10.2" 300 ppi Paperwhite display, includes Premium Pen + Kindle Unlimited

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.

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.

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

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 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.

I was after this to fulfil two wants. 1) to be a manga and comic reader for titles bought from Comixology. 2) to be used as a note taking for studies I was aware of the limitations of the note taking after watching numerous reviews, and it worked as well as I expected. Honestly a bit better than I expected. I feel its solid for what it is, but if your after more advanced note taking for college/uni then I'd recommend you look elsewhere. Writing feels amazing, they nailed the feel of writing and think it's a very natural feel. if this was what I was wanting I'd be happy, mostly. However for me the main use would be reading manga and comics bought on Amazon. For normal books this seems to work fine, for the most part. However some titles I KNOW I own just don't show up, and after a bit if digging it seems they were pulled by amazon from sale for what ever reason. Oddly, they show up in my IOS app, but not on the scribe or my oasis, which both use a different OS. This is made worse on the comixology side of things, where parts of a series are missing, a volume here or there. It makes no sense. Also after they (Amazon) merged the kindle and comixology app they added a new filter to the filters Manga and Comics. This meant you could easily see all your bought comics. Which when tied with the option to group series together (which works most of the time) it meant you had a nice uncluttered view. This is missing from the e-reader side, which makes for a nightmare time finding things. Especially if your like me and have almost 2000 books. Which is made worse by the fact you can't search when adding books to collections. Let's talk collections, a nice tool, if it works. I spend a good couple of hours organising my books into collections on my MacBook, because the Mac App lets you search when adding to collections. I can't stress how much a QOL feature that is! However when I then went back to the scribe, synched it up and went to my collections, they're empty. All the collection folders are there, correctly named etc etc. However they're empty, my 2 hours work was all wasted. Again, on the Oasis the collections are there, but are again empty. When I went and checked the IOS app, all my collections were there and and properly populated with the books. Including all the afore mentioned missing volumes. There seems to be issues with the OS running on the e-readers that is not there on either the desktop or mobile apps. Which at £400 is NOT acceptable. I understand that this is Amazon's first foray into e-ink notebooks, but the core OS has been around for ages now as it's used on the other kindle readers. So certain core functionality of collections and searching SHOULD be working properly by now. As should the comic filter and series collecting. I did try to use the call support feature on the Amazon website, and on the one hand I was quickly connected to someone/thing. The line was so bad, and the voice on the other end could have been a high pitch screaming AI for all I could tell. Was so bad I had to hang up. I like the concept of the device, but can't recommend it, I would say wait for the next iteration

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.

For Reading books this device is superb. However, I'm not sure it would be good value just for reading as you can get a normal Kindle for a third of the price which is very good. However, there are a few advantages that I have discovered. The light is really good, with an adaptive option, a sunrise/sunset schedule and the ability to mix warm and cold light. This makes for more comfortable reading in low light. The auto-rotate is not quite what I expected. It only auto-rotates 180° so if you want to switch between portrait and landscape then it's a manual switch. For many that's preferable as it can be a nuisance if it switches between modes when you don't want it to. When in landscape mode you can switch to 2 columns which may make reading easier for some. This is a much bigger screen than a normal Kindle so can feel more like reading a magazine that a book hence why 2 column reading may be better. The real advantage of this device is note taking and notebooks. You can create notebooks and organise them in nested folders. This seems to offer a fairly comprehensive but simple way of organising your notebooks. When writing there are lots of options, pens, pencils, thicknesses, eraser etc. The writing feel is very good and I found while the side of my writing hand is touching the surface it still allows me to write with the pen and it ignores my hand's contact elsewhere, so very comfortable and easy. As I use my notebooks for work I was concerned about accessing my notebooks if I don't have access to my Scribe (e.g. battery failure, Scribe somewhere else etc). It turns out notebooks can be viewed in the Kindle app. You can't edit them but you can view them which is fine for me. Notebooks are updated when you exit them on the Scribe and become available within seconds in the app. This is an advantage over paper books which can only be in one place and can become bulky to carry. The other major advantage is security. As my Scribe is protected with a PIN which can be 1-12 digits long this offers a level of security not available with paper books. The app and online version are secured using your Amazon username and password and any second factor you have opted for such as an SMS code. It does also allow you to write on PDF files which is useful. I'm still figuring out how these can viewed online and in the App. It seems to allow viewing in the app but not online. However, annotations don;t appear in the App. Any notebooks or annotated PDFs can be emailed and there is even an option to OCR the notebook are sending which is potentially useful. I was quite surprised how accurately the OCR worked with my handwriting. The pen I opted for is the basic one. The only advantage of the premium one seemed to be the eraser (there's also a customisable button), but I'm managing fine without this as it's easy enough to use the eraser tool with the basic pen. you just select the eraser instead of the pen, then back to pen when finished erasing. It seems like a lot of extra cost for that function - the writing experience is apparently the same. Altogether a very impressive device and worth the investment if you want to switch from paper notebooks. UPDATE. Online (Web Kindle reader) notebook viewing has been disabled by Amazon. You can still view notebooks on the kindle phone/tablet app.