Amazon’s latest Kindle Scribe
The pen is one of the Scribe’s best features, however. It delivers a smooth and lag-free writing experience on par with high-end tablet/stylus devices like the ReMarkable Paper Pro, which is one of my favorite all-time devices.
The tip of the pen is soft and textured, resulting in a silky, silent writing experience that feels exactly like a “real” pencil. It’s weighty, feels premium, and attaches to the side of the device with a magnetic snap, although you do have to align it just right to get it to stick.
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Note-takers who don’t have the most elegant penmanship can easily translate their handwriting into text and then edit the font and size further. This is a great way to clean up and organize hastily taken notes that you can save for further reference, particularly if your writing leaves something to be desired.
Notebooks are then further organized by folders, which you can name and categorize, allowing you to keep your content streamlined. Even better is the myriad of “paper” selections you can choose to write your notes on, including checklists, daily and weekly planners, trackers, and even storyboard templates.
This opens the device up to be a capable note-taking tablet in its own right, with just enough creation tools to allow for a robust feature set without all the bells and whistles of other high-end tablets. In other words, there may be a limited number of brushes and marker functions, but the ones have worked smoothly, with zero lag or false inputs.
The Kindle Scribe also features some AI functions, of course. The on-device AI can summarize up to 15 pages in a notebook, extracting key takeaways from the text in a neat summary that, in my testing, is about on par with commonly used AI services found on other platforms. In other words, it’s generally accurate, although complex information can produce generic-sounding results.
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Aside from your collections of notes, the Kindle keeps everything you’ve highlighted across multiple texts in a “Clippings” folder, which can be super helpful for automatically looking at key information at a glance.
Of course, the Kindle Scribe is set up to make buying e-books as seamless as possible, with Amazon’s Kindle Store easily accessible on the device and lots of ways to search for what you want to read. Depending on how much you plan on using the device, you can purchase e-books individually or spring for the Kindle Unlimited is an e-reader designed for readers who like to engage with their texts, doodlers, note-takers, and list-makers who prefer to “just write it down.” At $399 for the 16GB version, the Scribe is competitively priced as a functional tablet, and unless you really need a larger device, I’d say it’s certainly one of the best options out there, taking into account its full suite of features.
However, keep in mind that upgrading to the 32GB version raises the price to $420, and if you want 64GB, you’ll pay $450. This brings the price in line with the ReMarkable Paper Pro, an ultra-premium device with many more features for note-taking (color display, myriad of brush selections, etc.) but less in the way of easy-to-access e-books.
If you’re not someone who needs to scribble on the page or take a highlighter to what you’re reading, the Scribe is still a top-tier e-reader with a grippable, flippable form factor and a bright display and great battery.
We awarded the Kindle Scribe an Editors’ Choice because of how well it balances a dual use-case as an e-reader and note-taking tablet. There are a lot of e-paper tablets on the market, but the Kindle Scribe is the best for everyone from serious note takers to doodlers, with access to Kindle’s already-massive library of e-books.
Even better is the Kindle Scribe’s compact form factor and fantastic writing experience to rival high-end e-paper devices. For all these reasons, we’ve called it out as a standout in its category.
Source : ZDNet