Amazon Kindle Scribe (64 GB) – Redesigned display with uniform borders. Now write directly on books and documents. With built-in notebook summarisation. Includes Premium Pen – Tungsten Grey

There are a lot of people out there with very high expectations for this product, but for the price (particularly if you buy it on an Amazon sale day), it's pretty good. It allows me to take notes in all my business meetings and creates some order where i used to write everything in different paper notebooks and then later, struggle to find what i'd written. Notes are not sync'd to Outlook or anything other than to the Kindle Cloud (you have to email notebooks to yourself, which is clunky), but to be honest I rarely need to see notes on anything other than my Scribe, so I'm not too worried about that. The battery life is weeks, even with heavy use, the device is light, easy to use, and easy to read, the pen doesn't keep running out charge (like the Apple Pen), the handwriting recognition works fine, it feels like I'm writing on paper, and it doesn't have any distracting apps to grab my attention, not even email (unlike an iPad). Its limitations, for me, are its strengths. I can write, or read, and that's it. The Remarkable is supposedly slightly better, and has integration with Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive, but for me it's not worth paying £200 more for, particularly as it doesn't give you access to your Kindle library. So yeah, I love it. But that's just me.

Hard to believe, so I though I'd pop the photo in. It's not a great deal smaller, but the font used in the store (I'm talking about your homepage, as a store is what it is right) is actually smaller than on my current kindle (the cheapest and smallest one)! Unusably small for me unless I reach for reading glasses... but that's why I paid all the cash for the big screen: so that I didn't need reading glasses.The handwriting recognition is not so good. I think it must be tuned for people who don't use cursive, as it constantly thinks my 'f's are 't's; it ignores the tails of the f's, you see, and thinks they're t's instead. The cloud AI needs a lot of work; I've seen much much better.In person, I think the white border is ugly, and dark mode looks just silly with a white surround.My screen is already broken! It went wrong after one hour, and now it has a horizontal line running across it - and yes I've reset it all the way to factory; the line is there even when off.This device is not a keeper for me. I'll be back to check out the next generation.

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