Amazon Kindle Scribe

I’ve had the Scribe for about six months and absolutely love it: I actually relish using it every single time I open it up. I’ve had Kindles for probably 10 years, gradually upgrading until the latest warm-screen version Oasis. But reading on these smaller screens always felt like a compromise: having to constantly flip pages was a nagging mental reminder that the platform was digital, and for some reason this always impinged slightly on my enjoyment. I use the Scribe in portrait mode and now it feels like a luxurious hard-back page I’m looking at. The only thing that would make it conceivably better would be a yellower tint to the base color, which even the warm light doesn’t quite achieve - making it feel even more like a paper-page. I also write work notes on it every day. The pen feel is beyond comparison to ‘writing’ on an iPad - which is really nothing more than sliding around with a piece of plastic on a sheet of glass.

I have a Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. I’ve been able to upload pretty much any relevant media, primarily epub, pdf and images. I just use send to kindle via web or email. It’s not censoring or rejecting content. Not sure what benefit jailbreaking would have.

I got a kindle Scribe which can load PDF, HTML and text files via iPhone Kindle App and read offline. Since most pre-1925 books are out of copyright and free on https://gutenberg.org , ACM is open access ( https://dl.acm.org/ ) and we have open https://arxiv.org/ , it is the golden age for readers seeking original content. We don’t need bots to read for us. We can live in the mind of human writers.

Partner had remarkable. I bought a scribe. Tried both side by side for a month. Scribe lets you read your kindle books, draw on them, and write notes. Hard to get the notes off the device. RM lets you sync automatically. The rest of their software is total junk (see App Store ratings). It was more glitchy. Marginally better writing. Monthly fee. Both make exporting notes more difficult than it should be. My current go to - paper and pen with chatgpt app on phone - snap a photo to extract my writing. I kept the scribe for reading books - rarely use it over the kindle app on my phone. Hope it works for you though- love the idea.

i got my scribe for $250 and its my most used device after my laptop. great value.

I use 10” kindles like the scribe and DX. Bigger than a physical paper volume

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Yeah totally fair on both points. I'd bought the Note 2 before I'd heard about the GPL violations... Android is funnily enough exactly why I went back to the Kindle with the Scribe instead, though Amazon has it's faults as well. My ideal device for this space would be the reMarkable Paper Pro but with the Kindle app for reading books installed :)

My paper notebooks can't do linking, I can't easily rearrange pages, rearrange my notes on the page, and getting it off my paper and into my work PC is more challenging. My Kindle Scribe is excellent for all of this, and I can't go back, personally!

I haven't used the Scribe much for reading, I do most of my kindle reading before bed, and I find the smaller Oasis is a nicer form factor for me to read while holding it. Using the Scribe as a reader, if you wanted something bigger, is probably a great experience. I agree that the pen feel on the scribe is great.

I don't know about the necessity of physical page turn buttons. I've had a paperwhite and now a scribe and the touch is fine. An advantage of touch is that it supports sideways orientation, which I use on the paperwhite to increase the page width.

I like to upgrade them (the battery life, screen, refresh rate, etc. have all gotten consistently better over the years), I usually have one to leave at work and one for home use, and I give the hand-me-downs to friends and family. You can also sell them back to Amazon for a pretty good bonus when it’s time to upgrade. I think I sent back an old paperwhite and got $50 + 20% off my Scribe. Right now I have an Oasis and a Scribe that I use about equally. Reading is one of my bigger hobbies, I read around 100 books a year on Kindle.

and yet, there are some obvious things on my scribe that they haven't done: - no way to disable auto-rotate - can only write on PDFs from send-to-kindle, but that's limited to I think 50MB so textbooks etc. are not an option - only works with audible audiobooks, no normal m4b supported i believe the web browser is also still crazy cut down. i like the device but they're evidently understaffed on software