Amazon Kindle Scribe (64 GB) – Redesigned display with uniform borders. Now write directly on books and documents. Includes Premium Pen – Tungsten Grey + Kindle Unlimited

Absolutely incredible for work - it's made it so much easier to read and take notes on documents, books and PDFs. Notebooks can be converted to text and emailed on so ideal for a lightweight device to take notes or work on the move. Beautiful design and really easy to write on - the screen has a really good brightness variation for those who like it light or dark. Battery lasts several days of continuous use and is just all around ideal.

I have had the scribe for some time now and can honestly say I love it. This gets used every day for notes for work and work documents for reading and also for listening to audiobooks. So why do I use this over my IPad?(which I also love) well ther are few reasons 1. Writing- It feels really good to write on, it gives a pleasant scratchy feel so it isn’t like writing on ice but feels very paper like & I can rest my hand on the pad while writing without it going balmy. 2. Files - I can separate my notebooks, so I have a work day book a scrap pad for making notes while on calls or mapping ideas or presentations, my grandson has his own folder where he can draw and doodle and when I go conferences or specific events I have a note book for these so it dosnt get lost in my work day book, and all this in one device so no more scraps of paper cluttering my desk or car, no loosing notes and most important not carrying different notebooks 3.Kindle & Audible- I use both of these services in my everyday life, it is how I switch off, relax and reset and these gives the use of both, I love the big screen for comics and I am still fascinated by whisper sync the best feature Amazon has ever released, reading of standard books is good the screen is very adaptable so you adjust so you can read without wearing glasses something as a new glasses user appreciates (I can’t get use to wearing them) 4. Documents - this is more for the wider kindle infrastructure but uploading docs is so easy, using the document upload feature is so easy and again this feature means I have access to all my work related docs in one location without carrying 15 brochures in my bag when seeing customers and I never forget the one I need!!! All in all I can’t recommend this product enough and I look forward to the coloursoft version because that will make comic books pop and will be better for my work related brochures.

I have had this for more than 3 months and use it as a notebook (mostly for work) and also to read kindle books from the Kindle store. I absolutely love it. For work I have used note pads forever. I have lots of clients and lots of mini projects, some big some very small and most of these repeat in some way every year. Rather than keeping old notebooks and spending ages looking for the old notes I am now able to have all the notes in one place. This is thanks to the filing system (you can create file names and put them in folders and sub folder just like a Windows file system). This makes life so much easier. The pen is great and there are lots of ink styles to suit your preference. I find the eraser and the select tool (bit like cut and paste) very useful so that i can amend and update notes or to do lists day after day after day. There are plenty of other features like AI text recognition, exporting files, various paper templates, but i basically use one page style 99% of the time and nothing else. Then its a really big, clear and bright display (with backlight for night reading) so you can read your notes whenever and wherever. Then the actual Kindle books thing is also superb. Some might think its a bit big,but for me, not the case at all. I read books on this several hours a week whilst riding the train to and from work. I have a kindle folio case. That holds the kindle really well and offers enough protection for me to not worry about this being in my bag or on a table. It shows no signs of wear after 3 months constant use. One thing I would like to see if a “tag” system to help locate files in a different way (have seen this on the main alternative to this) but i think I probably only want this because I haven’t actually got it!

I tried the original release of the scribe and returned it as I could barely do anything with it. So when they released this upgrade I was tempted to give it a try. My use case is both as a kindle reader, and as a self study student. The device itself feels amazing on the hand, love the light feel and quality build. Only part of the build I hate is the white bezel. I think they were trying to make it look like a note book page, but honestly to me it just looks tacky YMMV. Writing on it is amazing feeling. Not quite writing on paper, but pretty darn close! As a kindle reader it’s a solid experience. It has all the issues I’ve come to expect with the kindle os, issues I wish they’d fix. However one of the biggest issues is the device is underpowered, when doing anything it can take ages to get a response from the ui. Downloading is as hit and miss as it is on any other kindle device, this is especially true of larger files. I have some that are over 1st and kindle has never been able to handle them properly. Sometimes I need to redownload the files multiple times to get them to go from 99% to 100% If you’re only going to be reading normal novels, get a paperwhite. However if you’re going to be reading manga, magazines, comics then you’d may well be better off with this. Now, let’s talk the main use. Writing. A lot of the texts I’m studying can either be directly bought on Kindle or uploaded. So there’s a big advantage there to being able to do it all in the eco system. The inline writing still needs some refinement as it’s a bit clunky and dosent always go where you want it to. However for my usage as self study and essay writing it works a treat. I can make all the notes I want in the text books and then add them to my actual notes. So far after a month of constant use I’ve found it very valuable and worth its investment. However I do still find I go back to my Paperwhite for reading in bed or on the bus. How does it compare to the likes of Remarkable? Honestly I prefer it. I have owned both the Remarkable 2 and Remarkable Pro Color. The problem with both those devices is you can’t get your text books on there. For a corporate setting they may be ok, but for a student I think the Scribe has more versatility. I do hope Amazon work on the OS kinks and bring more functionality to the writing side

Unfortunately not for me. Sub standard product. It feels very bad quality. No feeling of premium from a mile. Battery life as not good either, I wanted it to be my ultimate go to study device and it has been a massive let down. It’s unbelievable how expensive it s for what it offer and very disappointing that big corporations like Amazon get away with selling it with zero consequences!!! The new model has this ugly border which appears so bright in the dark and looks cheap and ugly. The software and is extremely laggy and screen flashes every 6 or 7 tap to refresh previous marks on the screen. Its horribly slow to the point where I had to actually wait for my pdf to open after tapping on it. Then if I had to make a note I would come out of one pdf and go to the note pad this exercise took a very long time. There is no multitasking for a £300 tablet!!!!! I wish I could give it zero stars for wasting my time and money.

Had my eye on a Kindle Scribe for a while and really glad that (after many hours of dithering) I decided to get one, it feels lovely quality and has a nice weight to it. It is easy on the eyes being nice and clear with good contrast, and I'm loving reading from a larger screen. The notebooks have been great for saving my glass fusing and craft project notes, the pen is nice to hold and writes really well and, in the absence of a custom template, the storyboard template has worked well for what I need. I prefer to just jot things down rather than type them up (no good me just trying to remember anything!) and it has been great to do this without adding to my craft room clutter. I'm even thinking of copying everything else over to the scribe so that I can get rid of the rest of my paper notes. Although rubbish at drawing I did have a go and did a picture of my cat, it was quite relaxing to do so will likely do a little more of that too. All in all really happy with the Kindle Scribe and would recommend it.

I spent ages contemplating whether to purchase this. I own an iPad Pro which I use a lot. I ended up getting this on a prime day sale and have no regrets. On the cons, it does feel like a big tablet, I would love to see a smaller version, but overall it’s fine. The interface is really responsive compared to other kindle devices. USB C charging is great as the rest of my devices have this, so I don’t need any additional cables or chargers. The battery life lasts for many days (unlike my iPad). Where this really fits in well for me (and wins amongst competitor devices) is the kindle integration. I like having my entire kindle library on this. I can get non-fiction books and highlight sections and make notes as I read the book, then just have the summary of my notes at the end. The other ease of use is uploading pdf to a kindle website to have it sent straight to my device. The stylus feels great and responsive to write with. Having compared with friends remarkable ebook readers, I am confident I have made the correct decision for the functionality. It’s not a cheap reader but it’s premium quality, well built, lightweight and has a backlight.

The AI note summary and handwriting tidying were added with a firmware upgrade, and they work. Also added was an optional margin at the side of ebooks (though not PDFs). The notebook feature works well with the pen, and is easy to use. There are a number of page templates supplied, but each page in a notebook must use that single template. I find the eraser useful, and the side-button is not something I seem to press accidentally - in fact I find it quite awkward to keep it pressed whilst (for instance) highlighting. In my previous work as tutor, I would've found it very useful for creating imagery in one-to-one tutorials or in meetings, etc. These days, I'm less inclined to reach to another device just to take a quick note. So that leaves the pen's main use as marking-up of texts. And this is where I got my biggest surprise. Many documents that I'd want to do this with (for instance a research paper) are protected PDFs, and the Kindle Scribe isn't capable of creating a non-protected 'notes' layer. There is a work-around if you know the password to open the PDF initially (some courses do this) as you can decrypt before sending to the Kindle. The freestyle mark-up does work well with an unprotected PDF, and I've started producing documents for my own use with the Scribe's dimensions (around 18 x 24 cm) rather than A4 so that they display at a good size on the Kindle (though most 10-12 pt typefaces even on an A4 document are readable). The other main area that the Scribe should excel at is of course displaying documents at a larger size than other Kindles, and would be perfect for those Kindle store reference books that save you having to lug heavy paper/ hard back version around. EXCEPT that many of those type of books are sold in the Kindle store in a format cannot be viewed on the Scribe (yes - even bought in the KINDLE store!) No rationale is given - just that it's not capable of being viewed on a Scribe. This leaves the illogical situation where that same Kindle book can be read on a tiny iPhone screen using the Kindle app or on an iPad that is not much bigger than the Scribe, but it cannot be viewed on any Kindle device, Scribe included. That's my biggest gripe - the Scribe has potential that's not been realised, and that feels like a poor design choice. The general e-books mark-up is fine using the boxed-in note-taking (though I'd prefer that there were not a fine border around each note). You can still just highlight text and have hidden notes. It's hard to imagine how free-flowing text could consistently work any other way, and this is an OK solution. The white screen surround doesn't particularly push my buttons - I don't really get it, and it is even slightly jarring if you use warmer backscreen. It also does not interact properly with all the screen - when reading in the dark with reversed reading mode, there is a distracting bright vertical slither of light all the way up one side of the screen (depending which way up you are holding the device - see photo). I tend to turn the device so that my thumb can cover it as I read. Otherwise, in both low and bright light it's lovely to use, though obviously heavier - it leans on a pillow in bed eventually as one-handed use can get tiring. Backlight auto-adjustment is a bit erratic - but that's easily re-adjusted to suit. For me, with trade-in from a Kindle Oasis, this purchase made sense. That would have been much less so at full-price, and at replacement in 4-5 years may well change e-reading eco-system to non-Kindle if the issues aren't addressed/ acknowledged. My summary is that I've returned to using a Kindle now that I've got a screen that is as big as many fiction books. This is great. Viewing and marking-up unprotected PDFs is good, but not being able to view some Kindle books from the Kindle store is very bad. A solution is needed also for marking-up protected PDFs (something like a side-car file with a notes overlay for each page). Speed of the hardware is, on the whole, as it should be - no issues there.