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.

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

Kindle Scribe offers a great reading experience. The screen is large and well lit. The ability to write notes in books and create other sketched input is awesome. The writing feel is great and very natural. The fact it's large does make it heavier and a little less convenient but overall it offers a comfortable read, especially if used with the Kindle cover.

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