Amazon’s many alternative Kindles are fairly identical in how they perform, with minor variations separating the base Kindle from the Paperwhite and the Oasis. That’s principally by design, and I do not thoughts. I do not want my ebook reader to do 20 various things—I simply wish to learn with zero distractions. But the brand new Kindle Scribe modifications issues up and is the primary Kindle in a very long time so as to add a brand new twist: the flexibility to jot down or draw on the slate.

With the included stylus, you’ll be able to take down digital notes like a ReMarkable 2, mark up PDFs, or doodle in your downtime. This improve comes at a hefty value: The Scribe goes for $340. That’s $240 greater than the bottom Kindle and $200 greater than the Paperwhite. If you have been itching to jot down extra bodily notes however do not wish to resort to paper and pen, it could be value it.

Write That Down

I’ve but to attempt a Kindle that is not an excellent e-reader. That’s what they’re made to do, with a easy and easy-to-navigate interface, and this rings true with the Scribe. The changeup is the ten.2-inch display screen, which feels large in comparison with the opposite Kindles. This will both be annoying or a boon—in case your eyesight is not nice, this dimension means that you can make the font fairly massive with out making the web page look too disjointed. You most likely cannot tote it in a jacket pocket although. I used to be nonetheless in a position to maintain it one-handed with no drawback, because it’s skinny and lightweight. 

The Scribe comes with a stylus, and it is the first motive to spend this a lot on a Kindle. There’s a brand new pocket book part so you’ll be able to create notes, calendars, to-do lists, and sketches. There are completely different sorts of layouts you’ll be able to select from too, like different-sized traces, grids, and dots, plus weekly planners with blocked pages or every day pages with time stamps. Every pocket book can have a number of pages, or you’ll be able to create as many notebooks as you want and set up them into folders. 

If you should view them elsewhere, you’ll be able to share these notebooks through electronic mail. There’s a quick-send choice to ship on to your Kindle electronic mail, which I discovered actually useful. On your pc, you will discover far more white house across the margins than what it appears to be like like on the gadget, one thing that’s particularly apparent when utilizing the clean web page. It’s a minor quibble, however you will have to do some cropping in the event you’re sending it to people.

You can even mark up PDFs, one thing that also feels clunky on a laptop computer. Anyone that works with PDFs can recognize this—studying proofreading marks was my favourite a part of English class, and I’ve by no means as soon as had to make use of them in actual life, so I’m completely happy to lastly do it on the Scribe. You can ship PDFs utilizing the Send to Kindle site or by means of the Kindle app in your cellphone. Amazon says that within the first half of 2023, Scribe customers will be capable to ship Word docs on to the Kindle too. That opens up many extra prospects for productiveness.