Kindle Scribe

I also got enthusiastic about them, but I ended up embracing the Kindle Scribe. [...] Possibly because switching is too slow.

[...] Its main feature is various optional image processing steps to look good on eink screens, which have different requirements than normal LCD screens. It also does file size optimization by downscaling to your devices native resolution, which helps performance on underpowered ereaders. [...] I’ve been reading manga on Kindle ever since I got the big 9.7” Kindle DX from 2010 using mangle, and upgraded to the even bigger 10.2” Kindle Scribe 2022 using KCC. The biggest contributions I've made to KCC are: added modern macOS support and removed homebrew requirement ported code to run on native Apple silicon M1 chip and later for a 2x speed boost (qt5-qt6) free open source windows codesign with SignPath fixed Kindle Scribe support and tons of other various features and bug fixes and developer friendly changes created a legacy Windows 7 build with 300+ downloads… The biggest community PRs were: huge 2x speed boosts due to various CPU/IO optimizations Kobo/Remarkable support. [...]

Not being able to write on the page kills this device for me, even six months later

Eink tablets can be cheaper. [...] I've daily used a Kindle Scribe for 4 years now, but I'm primarily a note taker. It's essentially an amazon branded wacom tablet and the closest to pen/paper I've used.

I'm really enjoying my Kindle Scribe amzn.to/4ppbRaf read write markup - draw. Handy to take with and easy to use. amwriting Amreading writesky sketch Got mine about a year ago.

Kinda wanna buy myself a pine note as a treat. I've been using my broken kindle scribe for a year and it's not even the cracked screen that annoys me. The ecosystem suckkkkkks

I have a 10 year old paperwhite and now I migrate to Scribe. Scribe is better for PDFs, and I can talk to my book, write on them and export my annotations later. If you are just a reader, small kindles are better, more easy to carry. But if you study your books, to learn with them, Scribe is insuperable.

[...] A year ago I switched over to taking notes on a Kindle Scribe, and as a voracious note taker it has been going very well. [...]

[...] I need to see if it can build me a fabulous todo app. [...] I got a Kindle Scribe hoping they might grow its capabilities. [...] So then I tried a fairly high end Boox, I got it and then used it only a couple weeks and then stopped doing that daily planner process entirely. But if Fable could build a Boox or reMarkable app, that might be a big win. [...]

I own last years Kindle Scribe model and enjoy reading with it. [...]

I’ve had it since the release, I like the form factor but the color isn’t needed. They have since released a newer version of the BW scribe, if i could go back that’s the one I would get.

[...] Obviously it is not worth buying it if it's mainly for reading, you have to consider it for note taking too... [...] Here's my review as I've been using this Kindle Scribe for almost 3 years: Reading: - It is indeed heavy for a long reading session if holding it with your hand. [...] - Kindle Library is hard to beat in terms of accessibility and price compared to other e-ink devices. [...] - Compared to an iPad: The Kindle Scribe is based on e-ink technology so, unlike LEDs screen we are used to, the writing and reading feeling isn't the same on an iPad. Plus the battery live and storage is bigger on the Kindle Scribe (if your intention is mainly for writing and reading). - Compared to a Remarkable 2 (they are often compared as they co-existed when released before the newer models): Kindle Scribe offers backlight, so unlike the Remarkable 2, you can use the Kindle Scribe in low light or no light situations. The 300 ppi display resolution from the Kindle Scribe is higher than the 226 ppi resolution from the Remarkable 2. So not sure what were you saying about this Scribe's software lacking over the Remarkable, is it the time response? [...] I do accept the Remarkable 2 looks more aesthetic, although it is more pricey and on top of that, they charge a subscription for syncing and other features even though there's a high upfront price. - AI and figures: Over the last updates, you can create a refine writing from your notes or even summaries using an AI feature. [...]

Have had a scribe for a couple of years. Pretty satisfied, but I can't seem to find a way to sync the device with a standard Anker bluetooth portable keyboard. Sometimes you'd rather type ......

I owned a kindle 4th gen since 2012 and it worked all the way up till recently I decided to try and change the battery to try and extend its lifespan to get more than 10 yrs was impressive itself but I wanted to save it from ending up in recycling and my late partner got it for me so it’s sentimental to me but Amazon sadly set it up so that if a customer tries to replace the battery etc it locks up the system as it detects a new battery so it won’t charge the new battery or let you in to access the kindle menu system in the end I had to throw in the towel and scrap it and yup I’m stuck with a new li po battery which I may prob find some use for in future The price of the new kindle scribe 2025 is rediculously high for a reader yes it has bells and whistles features but some of us just want the e ink display to read kindle novels personally I do like the increased kindle capacity and bigger size of viewable page area maybe next year ?

We have kindle scribe and a kobo at home, the kobo experience has been way more rough for epubs. On amazon all I do is access amazon.ca/sendtokindle and I can upload the same epub to my phone and ereader AND keep the current page in sync. [...]

[...] It's not just the ipad, I've also tried a remarkable and a kindle scribe and they all suffer from the same issue. [...]

I was filling notebooks too quickly and didn’t know what to do with them so I switched to a Kindle Scribe. It’s more expensive than a bunch of nice paper notebooks but it’s worked well for me. [...] I also tried Kindle HD tablets, which worked just as well, but I got a lot of eye strain since I also work on a computer all day.

Cross out stuff you disagree with, draw a big circles around the stuff that resonates. Not only does it make consumption a lot more engaging, it makes a revisit of that book extremely rewarding This is actually the biggest reason I own a Remarkable 2/Kindle Scribe, let's me "destroy" the book while also not having to worry about losing my notes.

My favourite stylus is the Staedtler Noris Digital Stylus which stands in for the classic 2 pencil quite nicely. That said, these days, I mostly use the Premium Pen included w/ my first-gen Kindle Scribe, or a Wacom One stylus (where the Staedtler used to be, prompted by my chipping and cracking the screen on my GB3 and having to apply a screen protector --- the harder tip on the W1 being a better match). [...] The pens bundled w/ my Samsung Galaxy Books (panic-bought a spare when the afore-mentioned screen incident happened) are fine, but I am annoyed that there's no silo (agree w/ Samsung being hobbled by their agreement w/ Wacom being annoying). Don't like the feel of the white Kindle Scribe Coloursoft stylus --- too rubbery. [...]

As a fellow EMR stylus enjoyer, which one do you prefer the most? The thin one in the phones tends to be too small to use comfortably and the one that comes with the Galaxy Book/tablets is decent (but the Galaxy Book has very inconsistent support for the buttons). The Wacom One stylus used to be my favorite, but lately I've been enjoying using the Kindle Scribe stylus/the fat Staedler stylus (I think they're both very similar in usage experience).

The thing is, to get a pen right, all that they have to do is license Wacom EMR/Samsung's S-Pen (Samsung owns a 40% stake in Wacom, hence using their stylus tech). Styluses w/ batteries/capacitors were okay once upon a time, but Wacom EMR "just works" and makes my life simpler/nicer (I couldn't count how many styluses I have around my house/in my bags so as to allow me to use my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, Galaxy Note 10+, Kindle Scribe Coloursoft, and Wacom One display (attached to a MacBook).

The last two Apple products I purchased for myself were: - OPENSTEP 4.2 --- for use on a NeXT Cube w/ a Wacom ArtZ tablet - Newton MessagePad I've been waiting for Apple to make a product which I want to use since the Newton was shut down, making do w/ a succession of Windows tablets and a Wacom One display attached to my MacBook, and a Kindle Scribe (recently upgraded to a Coloursoft), and a Galaxy Note 10+ --- being able to use the same stylus on all of my devices is quite nice.

Moreover, the Surface Pro 1 and 2 used Wacom EMR styluses --- still regret not getting one, but then Samsung did the Galaxy Book 12 (which was about perfect), so I was finally able to replace my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 (the Toshiba Encore 2 Write was a necessary stop-gap). These days I use a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 (w/ a spare which I panick bought when I wasn't sure if they would do a Book 4 --- now they're up to a 5), Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, and have a Wacom One on my MacBook (both of which need upgrading....)

My Kindle Scribe makes me a little sad every time I use it. [...] I own 2 Newtons. [...]

[...] My Kindle Scribe makes me a little sad every time I use it. [...] but the way styluses have been crippled in Windows since Fall Creator's Update makes me a little angry every time I have to toggle stylus behaviour when switching apps (I actually leave the Settings app open) --- at least Firefox has a checkbox for disabling a stylus scrolling....

Ereaders (Kindle scribe specifically) has been a huge discovery! [...]

I have a Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. [...]

[...] I read a lot of ArXiv papers on my Kindle Scribe, but other tools for sending PDFs to Kindle completely scramble math equations and tables. [...] It's a simple scratch-my-own-itch project, but I figured others here might find it useful. [...]

I got a kindle Scribe which can load PDF, HTML and text files via iPhone Kindle App and read offline. [...]

The writing experience on Kindle Scribe is pretty good as well. [...]

[...] I've dreamed of using a stylus and tablet since reading The Mote in God's Eye when I was young, and have preferred to use them since using a "Koalapad" attached to a Commodore 64 in the school computer lab when I was young. The NCR-3125 I had was donated to The Smithsonian by the guy I sold it to, along w/ a lot of other materials on pen computing --- PenPoint was my favourite OS alongside NeXTstep, and the high-watermark of my computing experience was using the NCR running PenPoint as a portable, then cabling it up to my NeXT Cube to transfer data --- had a Wacom ArtZ attached to the Cube, so still had a stylus, just it wasn't a screen. [...] I sketch (either on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ or Kindle Scribe or Wacom One or Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360), take notes (mostly on the Scribe), do block-programming (Wacom One or Book 3), or draw (on the Book 3).

I really enjoy using text.npr.org from my Kindle / Kindle Scribe. I'm really thinking about setting up a self-hosted RSS aggregator site that's Kindle-friendly.

The previous Kindle Scribe had a slow refresh rate, and it showed every time you tried to turn a page. All I want so far as refresh rates are concerned is seamless page-turning – page-turning that doesn’t make me wait. [...]

[...] For Wacom at least, it's not that bad, there are product lines (which are further sub-divided into generations): - Pro: Intuos/Cintiq - consumer - specialized mobile/folding and the styluses are specific to each, except for products which straddle a divide such as the Movink, or the strange case of a folding phone where the stylus uses the same frequency as the eraser of the consumer line (I suspect to prevent folks from damaging the hinge with a hard tip). That said, it's pretty easy to gut a Wacom stylus and place the innards in any shell one wants. [...] the tracing pucks and the "airbrush" handles and the stylus ID which allowed one to assign different tools in Painter to different physical styluses and switch by putting one down and grabbing another. That said, it's just magical that I can: take a note on my Kindle Scribe, switch to drawing on my Wacom One or Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360, and not have to switch tools, since they all use the same stylus technology --- best of all, I'll never have to spend a weekend at my mother-in-law's w/o a stylus, since the stylus in my Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ serves as a backup (and for expressive drawing on the go I can get the Lamy Wacom Stylus out of my bag).

Kindle scribe if you can get it for cheap. I think it goes for $240 sometimes and it's a steal for 10 inch of eink. Not the best for writing, PDF may have few rough edges but pretty decent overall.

Kindle scribe has been a disappointment. Unless you're going to go through all the work needed to jailbreak, your subject to whatever software changes Amazon wants to push on you with next to no notice. [...] If you don't plan to do a ton of handwriting, the scribe is a gorgeous and large screen. [...] Now I just do everything through my iPad with a pencil and it's almost as good...

Even without the advantages of e-ink, a display which one can view anywhere is a compelling thing, which opens up a lot of possibilities --- my favourite Windows device was a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 w/ a transflective LCD, which I used as my main computer, e-book reader, notepad (writing/drawing/annotating with a stylus), and map display when traveling. The transflective display eliminated issues regarding reflection or the display getting washed out by even full, bright, direct sunlight (I would use it for reference material for building sand castles at the beach). Unfortunately, transflective LCDs do not showroom well (dim) and no one seemed willing to make the investment to show their capabilities (build a daylight-equivalent light booth on the store floor). I keep eyeing a Daylight Computer, but these days, I just use a Kindle Scribe for reading and note-taking/sketching/reference, and I limit my activities when in full sun to those things which it can do well, changing location/finding shade when I need to do other things.

I would rather have an eReader that does more like my two Kindle Scribes, but costs a lot more. I will never go back to cheaper eReaders after using the Scribe.

[...] I use the Kindle Scribe to cover both bases. [...]

I've been reading through a PDF on my Kindle Scribe which I downloaded from the original site --- it's a great overview, and most importantly, includes citations and references to the various papers where folks shared their research/progress. These days of course, one would just get The Essentials of CAGD and similar texts, or read: or watch: Highly recommended for anyone who wants an understanding of how modern CAD software came about. For my part, I have found it invaluable in working on my current project as described at:

I can still use Kindle Scribe exactly the same as before the Jailbreak. Think of it this way - before it had Library (for reading and annotating Kindle books) and Notebooks (for writing). Now it has a third thing - KOReader (for reading only, KOReader doesn’t support handwriting annotation).

Does it have rotation lock? That's my single biggest pet peeve about the Kindle Scribe.

Good noise cancelling headphones, a range of podcasts/good music and my Kindle Scribe. I can’t use a laptop on the train but I do lots on writing on the Scribe and it can hold reading material. Plus - train naps!

Hi Mary, Hope all is well. I opened "My Enemy, My Ally" on my Kindle Scribe and it does show the time left in the chapter for me. If it's the e-reader version of the book, touching the bottom left corner of the page will toggle the display, cycling through the following: - Blank (no info) (1/2)

I returned this device and continued using the 2022 Kindle Scribe. The Colorsoft’s screen looks dirty, and the battery runs out really fast.

[...] Kindle Scribe Premium Pen (catch-all stylus) 2. [...] Standard Galaxy Tab stylus (I haven't used this since I got the others)

I bought a Kindle Colorsoft Scribe and have been using it for five days. The battery needs recharging every two days; I don't read constantly, and the Wi-Fi is turned off.

i have a huge book of sudoku on my kindle scribe that i use to unwind after night classes a lot. have you tried nonograms?

Yeah that is very true. Sometimes my Kindle Scribe tweaks out on me.

I use my Kindle Scribe on a daily basis for both writing and for reading, but mostly writing and for me the writing experience as a whole is amazing. I'm still not sure what it is that you say that the Remarkable can be better at in this regard, but the 'infinite' page is not a must for me.