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10.2" Amazon Kindle Scribe Devices on sale with prices starting from
$294.99.
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Available (Prices also apply to the "with 4 Months Free Kindle Unlimited" Bundle):
Product details:- 10.2" 300 ppi glare-free Paperwhite display.
- Handwrite thoughts on sticky notes in your favorite book with the included Pen. Notes are automatically organized by book in one place, so you can browse, review, and export them via email.
- Create notebooks, journals, and lists - Choose from a variety of included templates like lined paper, grid paper, checklists, and more.
- Review documents and take notes digitally – Use the Kindle app or desktop web browser to import documents. Review and mark up PDF files or create sticky notes in Microsoft Word and other compatible documents. Export documents and notes via email.
- Read and write comfortably day or night – Kindle Scribe has a large, high-resolution display, adjustable warm light, auto-adjusting front light, and larger font sizes for a personalized experience.
- A single charge via USB-C powers months of reading and weeks of writing
- Coming Soon: Kindle Scribe provides regular, free software updates that include new features. In the coming months, Kindle Scribe will add more writing tools, including new brush types and copy/paste tools, additional notebook organization options, and the ability to send documents to Kindle Scribe directly from within Microsoft Word.
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Reviewers that give it 5 stars:
Kindle Paperwhite - 85% (4.7 out of 5 overall)
New Kindle - 77% (4.5 out of 5 overall)
Kindle Oasis - 79% (4.6 out of 5 overall)
Scribe - 47% (3.8 out of 5 overall)
To sum up the reviews - it may be the best Kindle reading experience out there. Great build quality, the screen is top-notch. As long as you can work with a 10" screen it should make an excellent reader, maybe even the best reading experience.
BUT, and it's a huge but, the real promise of this device is to take on the expanding eInk tablet space. With Remarkable, Boox, etc you can have a great reading experience but also have a great writing experience. And this is where the Scribe is just miles behind. Awful note-taking capability. Worst in class in many functions. Reviews keep defending Amazon by saying it's a first gen product. The reality is that the feature set is much closer to a beta product. The reception has been so bad that Amazon has already announced some of the features that they will be adding "soon". They rarely, if ever, talk about their tech roadmap and future features on their other products. They've had no choice but to change their standard practices just to stop the bleeding.
I suspect that you will start seeing many of these pop-up as renewed very soon. Probably holding back right now a bit as they want to push the new inventory. Lots and lots of unhappy customers ended up shipping back their device after Christmas.
With your trade-in credit and the price reduction, the value proposition is a little better than it was at launch. Just be aware that there are products like the Note Air 2 from Boox that give you a full Android experience (including the Kindle reading app) and kill the Scribe in drawing/note-taking. When you factor in cases, stylus, etc, it works out to be about $100 more than the Scribe for much, much more functionality. You will need to consider if having the full Android experience + better writing experience for an extra $100 is worth it.
This is a big device, roughly regular iPad sized, which makes it heavier than normal Kindles. It's also not waterproof, nor does it have hardware page buttons. However, if you read comics, anything with graphics, PDFs, etc it's a really nice supplementary device - particularly if you plan to keep it for several years. USB-C charging is a huge improvement over other Kindles.
The drawing won't compete with an iPad Pro or anything, but the battery life will last weeks and if you value distraction-free focus and can live with limited sync options it's a solid option.
I personally am keeping my waterproof Paperwhite for portable reading, will use this for PDF review and general reading (I like to read on a stand anyway while eating, etc) along with general notetaking. It's not the best at anything but if you go into it with open eyes there's a lot of promise with it, and it's still a darn good eReader.
Edit: My information comes from watching basically every review on YouTube about this device. I actively take notes on my iPad Pro and iPad Mini and have used Kindles since launch.
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This is a big device, roughly regular iPad sized, which makes it heavier than normal Kindles. It's also not waterproof, nor does it have hardware page buttons. However, if you read comics, anything with graphics, PDFs, etc it's a really nice supplementary device - particularly if you plan to keep it for several years. USB-C charging is a huge improvement over other Kindles.
The drawing won't compete with an iPad Pro or anything, but the battery life will last weeks and if you value distraction-free focus and can live with limited sync options it's a solid option.
I personally am keeping my waterproof Paperwhite for portable reading, will use this for PDF review and general reading (I like to read on a stand anyway while eating, etc) along with general notetaking. It's not the best at anything but if you go into it with open eyes there's a lot of promise with it, and it's still a darn good eReader.
Edit: My information comes from watching basically every review on YouTube about this device. I actively take notes on my iPad Pro and iPad Mini and have used Kindles since launch.
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Reviewers that give it 5 stars:
Kindle Paperwhite - 85% (4.7 out of 5 overall)
New Kindle - 77% (4.5 out of 5 overall)
Kindle Oasis - 79% (4.6 out of 5 overall)
Scribe - 47% (3.8 out of 5 overall)
To sum up the reviews - it may be the best Kindle reading experience out there. Great build quality, the screen is top-notch. As long as you can work with a 10" screen it should make an excellent reader, maybe even the best reading experience.
BUT, and it's a huge but, the real promise of this device is to take on the expanding eInk tablet space. With Remarkable, Boox, etc you can have a great reading experience but also have a great writing experience. And this is where the Scribe is just miles behind. Awful note-taking capability. Worst in class in many functions. Reviews keep defending Amazon by saying it's a first gen product. The reality is that the feature set is much closer to a beta product. The reception has been so bad that Amazon has already announced some of the features that they will be adding "soon". They rarely, if ever, talk about their tech roadmap and future features on their other products. They've had no choice but to change their standard practices just to stop the bleeding.
I suspect that you will start seeing many of these pop-up as renewed very soon. Probably holding back right now a bit as they want to push the new inventory. Lots and lots of unhappy customers ended up shipping back their device after Christmas.
With your trade-in credit and the price reduction, the value proposition is a little better than it was at launch. Just be aware that there are products like the Note Air 2 from Boox that give you a full Android experience (including the Kindle reading app) and kill the Scribe in drawing/note-taking. When you factor in cases, stylus, etc, it works out to be about $100 more than the Scribe for much, much more functionality. You will need to consider if having the full Android experience + better writing experience for an extra $100 is worth it.
Reviewers that give it 5 stars:
Kindle Paperwhite - 85% (4.7 out of 5 overall)
New Kindle - 77% (4.5 out of 5 overall)
Kindle Oasis - 79% (4.6 out of 5 overall)
Scribe - 47% (3.8 out of 5 overall)
To sum up the reviews - it may be the best Kindle reading experience out there. Great build quality, the screen is top-notch. As long as you can work with a 10" screen it should make an excellent reader, maybe even the best reading experience.
BUT, and it's a huge but, the real promise of this device is to take on the expanding eInk tablet space. With Remarkable, Boox, etc you can have a great reading experience but also have a great writing experience. And this is where the Scribe is just miles behind. Awful note-taking capability. Worst in class in many functions. Reviews keep defending Amazon by saying it's a first gen product. The reality is that the feature set is much closer to a beta product. The reception has been so bad that Amazon has already announced some of the features that they will be adding "soon". They rarely, if ever, talk about their tech roadmap and future features on their other products. They've had no choice but to change their standard practices just to stop the bleeding.
I suspect that you will start seeing many of these pop-up as renewed very soon. Probably holding back right now a bit as they want to push the new inventory. Lots and lots of unhappy customers ended up shipping back their device after Christmas.
With your trade-in credit and the price reduction, the value proposition is a little better than it was at launch. Just be aware that there are products like the Note Air 2 from Boox that give you a full Android experience (including the Kindle reading app) and kill the Scribe in drawing/note-taking. When you factor in cases, stylus, etc, it works out to be about $100 more than the Scribe for much, much more functionality. You will need to consider if having the full Android experience + better writing experience for an extra $100 is worth it.
I am a margin note writer from forever ago and just want to get that old experience back (minus all the lost books and all the lost comments that I still really wish I could refer to sometimes).
I'm so disappointed in what I've read about the Scribe, but what kept me from going with the Boox Note Air 2 is reviews that said writing margin notes in the Kindle app is either really unpleasant or impossible. (Can't remember which). If I didn't have so many academic titles, which are expensive. already purchased in Kindle format, I'd feel better about making the jump. As it stands, I'd prefer not to have to convert them for native reading on the Boox and lose formatting OR read them on the Boox in the Kindle app and have what sounds like just as unhappy an experience.
Do you have any intel on this aspect of the Boox? I would so appreciate it!
(Also, why is this so hard for Amazon and others to make happen?)
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I am a margin note writer from forever ago and just want to get that old experience back (minus all the lost books and all the lost comments that I still really wish I could refer to sometimes).
I'm so disappointed in what I've read about the Scribe, but what kept me from going with the Boox Note Air 2 is reviews that said writing margin notes in the Kindle app is either really unpleasant or impossible. (Can't remember which). If I didn't have so many academic titles, which are expensive. already purchased in Kindle format, I'd feel better about making the jump. As it stands, I'd prefer not to have to convert them for native reading on the Boox and lose formatting OR read them on the Boox in the Kindle app and have what sounds like just as unhappy an experience.
Do you have any intel on this aspect of the Boox? I would so appreciate it!
(Also, why is this so hard for Amazon and others to make happen?)
It's not that they can't, it's just... why should they?
The price on this will drop further and faster than people expect, I hope. I might pick one up when it's south of $200, but my Voyage will serve me perfectly fine until then.
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