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10.2" 16GB Kindle Scribe E-Reader w/ Basic Pen
$240
$340
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Amazon has 10.2" Kindle Scribe E-Reader on sale as listed below. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter reptarSnax for finding this deal.
Available models:
- 16GB Kindle Scribe w/ Basic Pen $239.99
- 16GB Kindle Scribe w/ Premium Pen $264.99
- 32GB Kindle Scribe w/ Premium Pen $279.99
Available:
- 32GB w/ Premium Pen $279.99
- 10.2" 300 ppi glare-free Paperwhite display
- A single charge via USB-C powers months of reading and weeks of writing
- Take notes within millions of books
- Basic Pen never needs to be charged
- Premium Pen adds a dedicated eraser and a shortcut button
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Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- About this Offer:
- This is the lowest price the Kindle Scribe has ever been and is priced 28%-29% less than list price.
- You may also save an additional 20% at Amazon with an eligible trade-in, see the product page for details.
- About this Product:
- Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon based on over 6200 customer reviews.
- About this Store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
- Refer to Best Buy's Return & Exchange policy.
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Update: This popular deal is still available.
Amazon has 10.2" Kindle Scribe E-Reader on sale as listed below. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter reptarSnax for finding this deal.
Available models:
Available:
Amazon has 10.2" Kindle Scribe E-Reader on sale as listed below. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Deal Hunter reptarSnax for finding this deal.
Available models:
- 16GB Kindle Scribe w/ Basic Pen $239.99
- 16GB Kindle Scribe w/ Premium Pen $264.99
- 32GB Kindle Scribe w/ Premium Pen $279.99
Available:
- 32GB w/ Premium Pen $279.99
- 10.2" 300 ppi glare-free Paperwhite display
- A single charge via USB-C powers months of reading and weeks of writing
- Take notes within millions of books
- Basic Pen never needs to be charged
- Premium Pen adds a dedicated eraser and a shortcut button
Editor's Notes
Written by StrawMan86 | Staff- About this Offer:
- This is the lowest price the Kindle Scribe has ever been and is priced 28%-29% less than list price.
- You may also save an additional 20% at Amazon with an eligible trade-in, see the product page for details.
- About this Product:
- Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon based on over 6200 customer reviews.
- About this Store:
- Don't have Amazon Prime? Students can get a free 6-Month Amazon Prime trial with free 2-day shipping, unlimited video streaming & more.
- If you're not a student, there's also a free 1-Month Amazon Prime trial available.
- Refer to Best Buy's Return & Exchange policy.
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Kindle Scribe is perfect primarily for readers of Kindle ebooks that also want to be able to write on the tablet.
Remarkable is a writing focused device with some basic e-reading functionality.
For what I needed, I ended up going with the Remarkable 2. So far I love it. It's part of my daily workflow and I don't think it's just a fad device that will end up collecting dust on a shelf.
So, I desired something that can take my handwriting and quickly convert it to text. Hands down, the iPad with GoodNotes is far superior than the Kindle or Boox. The iPad will not only convert in real time, which does an outstanding job at understanding chicken scratch, it puts the text neatly on the lines in order, even when I don't write on the line. The other 2 devices, you have to write everything you want, then use a tool to select what you want converted and then it spends some time and converts it. But it leaves it exactly where you wrote. This is such a tedious process and looks nowhere as clean, just completely disorganized. Not even the remarkable 2 and Supernote have this power. It's literally limited to iPad with GoodNotes app.
The second was highlights, which are incredibly important for note taking. I really wanted to like it, but gray-scale just doesn't work for highlights. The Boox, which I had super high hopes for since it was in color, there is no function to highlight your notes. People confuse the marker as a highlighter.
Finally, the writing. Imo of the 3, the Kindle felt the least like writing on paper. The Boox came in second. The iPad with the paper screen protector felt the most like writing on paper. The only issue is it eats up your pencil tip after probably 2 weeks of heavy note taking each day. And I'm saying hours upon hours a day. I'm using an older iPad, so I'm not too sure what pens actually work. So, it's not easy finding cheap pen tips on AliExpress or Temu. Though I see plenty for newer gen iPads. The nibs for the Kindle and Boox are on there, but much research show the nibs last a super, super long time. Probably why they don't feel as good. They're more of a super smooth pen feel, but writing on something not paper, the iPad a pen or pencil feel like writing on paper. So if you're in the same situation, I recommend an iPad with a paper screen protector with the GoodNotes app. The GoodNotes app is on Samsung tablets, but the AI handwriting to text is only on iPad. Starting at $350, the iPad isn't much more than this. And it looks like the previous gen is $250.
This is all starting from an iPad. I wanted something that didn't have entertainment apps to steer me away from doing my work, so I tried the E-ink tablets. But to this day, I still haven't used the iPad for anything else, other than the GoodNotes app. I haven't been tempted to open something else once. That's what my smartphone is for. So if you don't need what I need, for the price on sale, a scribe isn't bad. The Onyx is a nice option especially being able to side load some android apps, but the color portion needs work. Found issues with the screen not great at refreshing. Possibly in another gen or 2 it'll be great.
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Interesting to see if there is a device that is worth trading in. Kindle Scribe is something that always fascinated me but it is also the lowest rated kindle to date I believe. And none of the reviews I have seen were completely positive about it. Must resist at this price for now (coz I dont think I have any Kindle that's worth 20% off. Only have Tab S7, S7+, S9Ultra)
Interesting to see if there is a device that is worth trading in. Kindle Scribe is something that always fascinated me but it is also the lowest rated kindle to date I believe. And none of the reviews I have seen were completely positive about it. Must resist at this price for now (coz I dont think I have any Kindle that's worth 20% off. Only have Tab S7, S7+, S9Ultra)
You just gotta take the scribe for what it is and base your decision on that. I wanted a large ereader like the DX and the scribe is exactly that. I was 100% satisfied
most reviews and the initial marketing just focused on the half baked writing and note functionality. a lot of reviews I saw/read only mentioned the ereader experience for a single sentence.
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Same here. I missed the Kindle DX a decade ago and have been looking for a larger eInk device. The note taking features are nice to have but not really necessary so the basic pen should be good enough for me. I do wish there were physical page turn buttons like the Kindle Oasis, though.
I use it for reading manga, here's a dx vs scribe manga comparison. Keep in mind a manga volume is 100-200mb. Biggest upgrade is 300 ppi vs 150 ppi and much faster page turns. I got the 64 gb though.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vAx8Ufu
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You just gotta take the scribe for what it is and base your decision on that. I wanted a large ereader like the DX and the scribe is exactly that. I was 100% satisfied
most reviews and the initial marketing just focused on the half baked writing and note functionality. a lot of reviews I saw/read only mentioned the ereader experience for a single sentence.
Found this on the review from Best Buy site.
Items:
$264.99
Shipping & Handling:
$0.00
Kindle Trade-in
-$53.00
Total Before Tax:
$211.99
Estimated Tax Collected:
$22.26
Gift Certificate/Card:
-$20.00
Order Total
$214.25
For an eink tablet
https://us.kobobooks.co
A larger 10" screen + backlight.
Otherwise,
EBay for the used sp6 $250~ + ciscle / renaisser surface pens $35~.
I personally prefer the surface because I can jump into Final Draft and write out scripts and such any time. And fully compatible with any pc software because...it's a pc.
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But for an eink, definitely not Amazon because they try to lock you in and lock you down, making it harder to dump files in.
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Despite the backlight, the Scribe didn't offer enough to be a true paper substitute device as does the Remarkable (with backlight issue in consideration). The Scribe for example auto-powers off which to me is a deal-killer since paper is always available to write on, you don't have to push a button first to use it. The Remarkable will stay on indefinitely until power is out which can be somewhere in the 12 hour range with wifi turned off, so you can use it like how paper really is.
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