For the past several years, Amazon has conditioned the market into accepting the $99 USD price tag for a simple e-reader. I’m referring to Amazon’s entry-level Kindle which has a nice 300 ppi screen and 8 GB of storage space. Need something with a backlight? Pay $40 more for the Paperwhite version. What about something waterproof with better ergonomics? Buy the Kindle Oasis for 1.5 times the price. But Amazon has taken Kindle to another level again with the launch of Amazon Kindle Scribe. Much more than a simple e-reader, this tablet (launched at the tail end of 2022) has some extra features including a pen and digital notebook capabilities that are supposed to make it worth a bundle more-almost three times the original Kindle. So what do you get, how do all these advanced features work and is it worth it? I’ll test it out in the review.
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What you get
Amazon Kindle Scribe is a multipurpose tablet. It’s a larger format e-reader, it’s also a digital notebook with the ability to take handwritten notes and even convert them to text. It will also browse the web for you making it a fairly good multitasker.
These added benefits come with a weight cost-the Scribe checks in at around 433 grams (0.955 pounds) which is twice as heavy as a Kindle Paperwhite. If you never used a Kindle before, just imagine how it feels to use an iPad Air to read books because it weighs around the same. The difference is the slightly thicker bezel on one side of the e-reader which can come in handy when you want to hold it with just one hand.
Even so, for a tablet this size I can say it actually feels light and easy to grip.
Pen Experience
I’m going to start things off here by talking briefly about the pen, since this is at the core of many of the features of the Kindle scribe that we are going to dig into. The pen is lightweight and easy to hold and a reasonable size. My pen has an eraser feature if I flip it over and press down. Handy! The Pen has one flat edge, which some users may love or hate, and there’s also a multi function button right where you will hold it.
Features - e-reader
As far as features go, the Kindle Scribe is still a Kindle at heart so expect a lot of parallel when it comes to the overall experience. I highlighted many of the features in my 2022 Amazon Kindle review so you can check that out to learn what it’s like to download, import, and read books. In short, the matte screen in nice and mimics paper reading well. Pages are turned with a tap or a swipe, and it’s easy enough to navigate around the device. With a greyscale-only screen, there’s no colour option here.
Annotations and note making in books
One of the great features of these hybrid, E reader notebook devices is the ability to make notes in books and documents. The Kindle scribe also offers this feature, but a little bit differently than something like the Kobo Elipsa 2E.
Notebook experience
Since the notebook feature is the other big upgrade on this device will focus some time here. Creating and managing your notebooks is easily done from the notebooks tab on the main menu. One of the first things I noticed, and really appreciated is the ability to choose the type of notebook format you want to use; you don’t just get a blank page you can have ruled notes, a checklist, a grid page, or even dots. There’s also a variety of other templates, including DayTimer format, calendar, format, and various checklists. That’s extremely comprehensive and well above what the nearest competition is offering. You can even change the background format of those notes after the fact.
The notebook has a fantastically tactile writing feel; it feels and scratches just like pen on paper, avoiding that ‘nails on chalkboard feel’ that scraping a stylus across a glass screen can sometimes bring.
Exporting notes: send pages or convert to text
You can share your notebooks and pages easily enough using email. Just tap the menu at the top of the screen to view your options which includes a quick send to the same email address that is tied to your Amazon account, or to another email address. You can also have the scribe automatically convert your handwriting to text and send that using email also. If you use the convert option, it will obviously not include drawings, diagrams, or equations, but I can say the conversion feature was extremely accurate, and was able to accurately translate even my imperfect handwriting into text with zero mistakes.
In short, I really liked the notetaking experience on the Kindle scribe. Since it was comfortable, easy to use, there’s a ton of variety in how to take your notes, they’re easy to export, and the text conversion works flawlessly.
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