New Amazon Kindle Scribe (16 GB) – Redesigned display with uniform borders. Now write directly on books and documents. Includes Premium Pen – Tungsten Grey + Kindle Unlimited

Let me tell you what I like about the KS(1) Screen clarity and contrast(2) Screen clarity and contrast(3) Screen clarity and contrast (and front light)(4) Writing note experience - pen is nice in weight, lag imperceptible, Smart Button and erasers work well. I don’t ever find myself pressing the smart button accidentally and I have big hands - perfectly placed with just the right pressure sensitivity(5) Having my Kindle library for study / serious books. I think when I read for leisure the Paperwhite is best(6) The pen menu in note taking is minimalist and fits with the distraction free ethos those of us who have epaper devices are after. I have had 3 others now, all returned and all disappointed. I can’t tell you their makes but one from the most famous in this space (liked; minimalism and file management, didn’t like no front light and 227DPI a bit scratchy - you can’t unsee the pixels - yes, my OCD and your MMV) and the others poor screen contrast too black or colour on grey. KS is really easy on the eyes.These devices are not a bundle of Pros and Cons of which screen quality is one alongside software, eco system, etc. Screen is all that matters first. If it passes that, go to step 2. If not the rest doesn’t matter!(7) I really like the design. slim and good weight. Understated and elegant.(8) Kindles own sleeve (I got the fabric effect one) is really nice to hold and the choice of a top rather than side hinge works great and well done Amazon for the pen loop. Magnet is great but in a bag it would fall off.(9) How they manage screen refresh - whole screen or around the eraser … they’ve got this right where avery other one I’ve tried has ghosting problemsWhat is not so good?(1) Switching between reading library and notebooks - too many steps. Off screen swipe up or two finger swipe to a switcher could be used?(2) When deleting an active canvas (or anything) delete? Yes. Are you sure you want to delete? Yes. Don’t put in the second step. I told the screen I wanted to delete. Done.(3) It froze after one active canvas and needed a re-boot which isn’t fast (about a minute?)(4) a split screen option to write notes beside studying book in library (in landscape)(5) When you highlight text in a book on an iOS device kindle app one option is ‘copy’ the quote. Can’t do that here. Why not? Be supper cool to be able to do that and paste into a note you’re working on….Notice something? Every limitation I’ve got is software and every ‘compliment’ is hardware. If the former can be changed with updates, and of course it could - can’t wait for the promised big margin thing for notes which I would prefer to active canvas (a rival has this and its a good fix) - the balance shifts even further to Pros over Cons. But if you but something with a dull screen, or no front light if you need it, no software update will sort that.Which brings me to Amazon’s marketing / PR failure, and a plea to think carefully, dear would be purchaser. If you look at the reviews of the KS 2022 almost all 5 stars. And of the KS 2024 almost all low stars, and many one. Why? everyone loved the first because it never claimed to offer AI. In the second better hardware and software, failed only because it didn’t offer the AI in non USA markets. Over promise, under deliver. If you can see past this, you will love the KS 2024. If AI comes to the UK great!! But for me without it, it is perfect for what I want it to be and do. I honestly can’t believe any AI could manage my handwriting anyway. I’m really impressed.———————————-Just another thought (Amazon!?) the orientation self sorts for portrait either way after inverting the device. But to set to landscape takes 5 steps/taps. I switch between them a lot for different tasks. Couldn’t this be automatic with an orientation lock to prevent of reading lying down?? Thanks Amazon!

This new Kindle Scribe 2024 is a great device. I've had it for a day or two now after myriad smaller screen Kindles in the past and this is surely the best.As a Kindle e-book reader it is superb, the bigger screenis a terrific benefit especially if you need to use a larger font in the books. It's very high definition rendering fonts clear and crisp. The processor is fast giving quick page turns and brisk menu navigation.As a notepad it is very good and intuituive. The prremium pen works very well. I'm still geting into all the features and so far, so very good. I'm super pleased.Here comes the BUT. the system font used in all the menus, even on the "large" mode in settings, is really tiny, its minute, and there is no way to custromise this aspect of the device. While on the smaller six-inch screen Kindles there could be a justification for this: "small screen so needs must a small system font", with the bigger screen Scribe there is no justicfication at all. Amazon have really dropped the ball in this area spoiling an otherwise great machine.If this realtively simple change was fixed I would rat it at 6 stars! Hopefully a future system will fix this and then it would be a superb device, well worth the money.

Unfortunately, the product did not meet my expectations. The advertisement did not mention that AI features are not available in the UK. Ultimately, it feels very overpriced for what you receive. While the note-taking and pen functions are excellent, many essential user experience features are missing. For the price of the 64GB version, I could purchase a decent laptop.

The Scribe arrived nicely presented also with five spare nibs, the USB charging lead and instructions. It was roughly half-charged so I could have a go with it straight away. First thing to do was let it update so that the new-to-UK AI tools could now be used! Yay! I chose the Scribe after much research on different devices as it seemed to suit my purposes of reading my Kindle books and making (mostly) gaming and hobby related notebooks.Pros – I find writing on it a fantastic experience – so enjoyable that I am always trying to think of extra things I can write on it! The fountain pen makes my writing look awesome.- I love the large size, which makes reading and writing so easy for me with my dodgy eyesight.– It is so slim and a great looking piece of kit. – the jade colour is lovely and makes such a change to the old boring grey Paperwhite I owned.– Some great templates for making notebooks, with the ability to change templates from page to page, move pages/notebooks around, delete whole books or individual pages etc.– The ‘new’ AI tools to summarise, or convert writing to a font, are useful.-The ability to trace pictures to add to notebooks! (send jpeg or other supported file to the Kindle, open it and trace it with the pen and then lasso, copy and paste into a notebook).- I really like using dark mode sometimes, it looks great.- The ability to email notebooks to yourself – I like to sometimes convert them to pdf files and then send them back to the Kindle to have available to read in the library.- Battery life is great.- It has all the usual Kindle reading features, but if you are not familiar with them they include adjustment to brightness and warmth lighting, changing the font size, layout, book progress, showing the clock, auto rotate etc.Cons – There is ghosting during use, which I was expecting since it is an e-ink device, but it takes some getting used to (it disappears upon page refresh).- If you send a pdf file to the Kindle, you can only write on it within the library section and cannot use it as a notebook template – although there are some good templates available, we really need the ability to make our own, please, Amazon!- There is no auto straight line tool in the notebook section (you can use a physical ruler).- Copying an entire notebook page is cumbersome; you need to lasso it and then copy, open another page and then paste.Over all, I am really happy with the device and am loving using it. The cons feel minimal for me and I definitely do not regret my purchase.