Amazon Kindle Scribe (32GB) - Your notes, documents and books, all in one place. With built-in AI notebook summarization. Includes Premium Pen - Tungsten

The Kindle Scribe has quickly become my go-to device. I take it everywhere with me and use it every single day. The writing experience is incredible—it genuinely feels like pen on paper with zero lag, making note-taking, sketching, and writing a total pleasure. On top of that, having full access to download my entire Kindle book library on the same screen makes it the ultimate all-in-one reader and notebook. If you like to take notes on the go and want the natural feel of real paper alongside a top-tier e-reader, this is worth every penny.

OH. MY. GOD. 🤩🥳 I have found the holy grail of e-reading. I upgraded by trading in my 10th gen paperwhite. When I received this bad boy (named $crim the Scribe lol), setup was a breeze bc I linked my amazon account to the purchase. I've had it for a week now and it's life changing in the best way 😍 **yes I'm aware you can see my folders & titles of my notebooks, idc lol** I have wanted to journal my whole life but never could stick with the hobby. I have been a journaling FIEND with this piece of technology. I've already made 13 notebooks, with all different kinds of layouts. The planner layout, checklist layout, & a regular notebook paper layout. I have 3 different journals and checklists out the WAZOO. I love writing on it, and I think my handwriting is so much prettier on it vs on actual paper 💀 I don't have any issues with the premium pen, but this is the first time I've used a pen like this lol. The eraser on the end is a little loose, but not to the point that it bothers me. The Kindle itself is super high quality **remember this review is coming from a previous 2018 paperwhite owner lol** It's not as durable as my paperwhite was that's for sure. I love that the button to wake it up is on the side because I put my thumb under the bottom sometimes to hold it while I'm reading. The screen is HUGE and my blind self loves that 🤣 I didn't realize the pen is magnetic and sticks to the side, I was like a cavewoman discovering fire when I found that feature lmaooo. Response time is lightyears faster than my paperwhite, and having 64GB of memory is a dream compared to the 8GB I had. The battery life is impressive, I have mine set to sleep after 5 minutes of inactivity. I don't let my devices get too low on charge so I don't know how many days it lasts with a LOT of writing in notebooks & reading. You're able to send documents to your kindle as well, and then write on them! It's super easy too. One of my notes from my iPhone took a while to transfer, but it still did it so no complaints here! You can customize a little more with this than on the paperwhite. The jade color is BEAUTIFUL, plus my constellation case is so CUTE & perfect for an astrology girlie like me 😍 It works like a dream with smooth & swift transitioning. It's condensed my planner, journal, & e-reader to ONE physical item. I won't have to spend money on yearly journals or continuously buy new journals saying "I'll start journaling now, this is the one." Of course manufacturing the item creates waste, but I like to think I'm helping the environment a little bit by not buying those physical items anymore 🌏 ✨I know the price is pricey (at least to me it is lmfao), but if you love reading, love to journal or want to get into the habit of journaling, BUY A KINDLE SCRIBE!!!!!! This was a purchase I know was worth it as soon as I got to play around with it ✨

I've been a dedicated Kindle user for years, and am now on my 3rd (Paperwhite Signature) and 4th Kindles (this one, Scribe). I had a gift card burning a hole in my pocket, so I did a lot of research on eInk devices including this one, the Boox, the ReMarkable, etc. I pulled the trigger on this one during a solid Prime Day discount, even knowing that a newer version is coming soon. My use case is simple - I wanted something that was a great eReader and a great note taker so I could travel with it to business meetings, read on the plane etc., and take notes that I could easily digitize and paste into my Evernote when back at the office. If it offered an upgraded reading experience at home, then even better. I also like to sketch (mostly analog) and was interested in journaling a bit more. Here's what I really love about the Scribe - It doesn't try to do too much. It is optimized for reading and writing. I've been reading and journaling way more in the month or so since I got it. - It has great battery life, weeks without a charge with fairly heavy use. - The screen is clear and easy to read, with lots of adjustability and a fantastic backlight (I was already used to this on my Paperwhite, but this is a bigger screen that fits much more text) - It's the right size to fit in my bag and be light and easy to use - The writing feels mostly like writing on paper - Once you find the right case for the way you use it, it is easy to hold and prop up for writing. I tried 3 different cases and ended up with one of those folio covers that has a triangular stand. It's great for holding, lap reading, and writing propped on a table or in the hand. I avoided those with pen slots on the side since I found they rub against my writing hand. Amazon sells one but it's very expensive compared to third party models. - Eraser works great - Easily syncs reading progress across my 2 Kindles - Compatible with a wide selection of 3rd-party pens and tips - No subscription fees - Handles flipping over and on side really well, very fast - Very quick and responsive display, no noticeable writing latency - Asymmetrical margin on one side makes it easy to hold without accidentally activating touch screen Here are the things I'd change, and hopefully some of this will change with software updates: - The tips on the pens wear down faster than I'd like. I might risk it and try a metal tip, but still would be nice for a sharper solution that stays sharp - The drawing experience is meh. It's fine for quick, pen-like sketches, but it is definitely not optimized for any kind of art creation. I find the pressure and tilt sensitivity mediocre. It's plenty sufficient for writing though. The writing tool selection is OK, but limited for art. - Pen button is handy and useful, but a little awkwardly placed. I would like it better if it I could program it for "undo" function but that isn't one of the programmable options. - I still keep my Kindle Paperwhite around in the bedroom because it is much lighter and more comfortable to hold in bed when only reading with it. - Syncing notes is mediocre at best. The best option for me is the AI transcription, then email to my self for copy/paste into Evernote. This should be a more seamless integration. AI handwriting recognition and summarization work really well, though. The normal handwriting recognition option doesn't work as well but might suffice for neater writers. In any case, no subscription fees at all for any of it. - I wish I could create real templates from PDFs that worked as templates, not just importing PDFs to use to write on that would need to copied over and over, and live separately from my notebooks. - Some people find the methods of non-PDF book annotation limited (and with PDFs there are restrictions on how to import them for writing on them to work). This is a challenging problem to solve on proper eBooks, and it doesn't bother me really as 1) there are several decent options to choose from, and 2) I don't annotate books that much (I do highlight a bunch, though, and it works great) Why pick this over the ReMarkable or Boox? - Way less expensive than ReMarkable - Best eReader platform for me, as I am deep in the Kindle ecosystem. It just works and works well for reading - It doesn't try to do too much. The Boox is cool but its functionality overlaps too much with my phone and my iPad. Overall, despite all the quirks mentioned above, I still give it 5 stars because I use the mess out of it every day and enjoy the experience immensely.

I absolutely love this! It’s perfect for keeping all my books, notes, and documents in one place without having to carry around a bunch of notebooks and books. I especially love being able to write notes and make lists right on it. The screen is easy on the eyes, and the battery life is great. As someone who is in school, this has been such a great addition for keeping everything organized and having what I need all in one place. I also love that I can read my books on it too! 📚❤️ Definitely recommend if you’re a student, reader, or just someone who loves being organized!

As an e-reader, this thing all that I would expect. The thing is light, the bevel is nice to grab onto, the screen auto rotates if you want to hold it in your left hand, and I can increase the font to a size that I don't need glasses to read the text (pro tip: don't get old, or at least don't let your eyes get old). But this is the type of stuff I would expect at this point. The reason I got this one over a basic e-reader was because of the notebook feature. This is where I am disappointed. First the good: writing to text is good enough to recognize my handwriting. Years of keyboard warrioring has left my handwriting skills something to be desired. Even this little note, I would have rather just typed it out. But for the sake of testing I tried out the AI converting tool and good enough. Now the not so good: Starting with a simple schematic and working through some formulas, I quickly found myself running out of space. I'm use to doing this task in Onenote where I can just scroll down for more room, so this caught me off guard. This works more like paper (duh) so got to be prepared to jump to a new page when you go down. The next thing I tried was doing a working drawing. I quickly found myself trying to use pinch zoom and not finding it. Once again, like paper. Not saying this is bad, but I was expecting more. The lightness makes me want to use it for taking project notes over my Surface Pro, but this lack of a more computerized note-taking is a let-down. A thing I picked up from using this: If your going to write, turn the bevel towards your writing hand. It will give you a little more slide room before you are coming off the reader. Lastly, I tried some more artistic things. I'll admit I am no artist, but I found that even an old sketch pad and paper had more tools than the pencil tool. Primarily, I can smudge with paper and pencil. This tool is not there. Admittedly I got better with using different brush sizes but it feels more like a workaround solution. I am also sure that a more artistic type would do much better but I also feel that they might want to look at other options with better tools as well. In the end it's not a bad device. It will serve me well as a Kindle, which was the primary reason I bought it. I was just expecting more out it when you compare this to the other e-ink note takers out there. One final thing, if you use the notebook feature, you're going to want to use a firm surface. This thing is light enough that it feels like writing on a notebook in the air if you don't have it propped.

Amazon’s Kindle Scribe (2022 & 2024) does two things very well. If you want an excellent black and white e-reader with the ability to highlight, underline, and annotate Kindle books and you want an amazing electronic notepad to write in and/or draw on, you want one of these devices. If you only need a tablet for one of those two things or need more specialized functions, you might want to consider alternatives. I purchased the 2022 model about a year ago and last week I killed it dead when I neglected to tighten the cap on my YETI coffee mug. The Scribe is not water resistant. This is the review of the 2024 model that arrived this week. Reading. The Scribe is a hair over 9 inches tall by 7 and 3/4rts wide and 3/8ths inches thick. It weighs 15.4 ounces. It is a bit large and heavy to hold in one hand; however, the same is true of most books and of course it won’t snap shut on you. The device has a 2480 x 1860 display with 300 pixels per inch. That is better than most of its competitors and means that it can handle detailed grayscale images (e.g., a blueprint, landscapes and cartoons, pie charts and bar charts, etc.). It also means that it produces very crisp text and symbols. If all you want a tablet for is to read novels and short stories, you could probably get something cheaper. However, it is better than anything I have tried out for reading text. It is also perfect for academic works where color is not required (e.g., Robin Wilson’s Number Theory or William Simpson’s Hylomorphism). The only caveat here is that some Kindle books that I can read on my laptop are apparently unavailable for the Scribe. I have several algebra texts that are incompatible with this device, and pretty much any text with ancient Greek. Where the Scribe really shines as an e-reader is the mark-up. The device comes with a pen. Keep an eye on it. It cost me about $70 to replace the one I lost in the Minneapolis airport. The pen sports a single button near the tip. This changes the function of the pen tip. You can, for example, modify the settings to transform it from a pencil to a highlighter or eraser. One improvement in the new device is that the pen keeps a firmer magnetic grip on the edge of the Scribe than in the previous version. This seems to be a response to reviews of the earlier device. I love to underline key sentences, but I am so sensitive to crooked lines that for decades I used a ruler for the task. No more. You can underline text with the pen in this device, and it will replace the crooked scribble with beautiful straight lines. Oh, frabjous day, he chortled! I would not replace my Scribe with any reader that did not have the same superpower. The device does have trouble, occasionally, when it comes to distinguishing between an underline and writing or drawing. If it misidentifies the underline as scribble, it will open a canvas for you to write in. An annoying waste of time. You can also use the pen to highlight, which I find much less appealing in grey but, hey, it works just fine. Finally, you can create a “canvas” on which you can scribble or type notes. The notes stay attached to the text and you can access them using the Kindle app on your laptop. I am still exploring this one. One brilliant feature is the ability to send Microsoft Word documents to your Scribe. You can then edit, underline, etc., as effectively as you can Kindle books. If you are reviewing MS documents on a regular basis, this will change your life for the better. One caveat: the aforementioned annotation functions do not work well with PDF files. It is not difficult to import academic papers, textbooks, etc. in that format. You can then use the pen to draw on the text. If you are careful, the thinnest pen-tip setting gives you plenty of room to scribe a line below a sentence or two. But you don’t see that beautiful straight line replace your hand drawn mark. If I am going to study an PDF document, I do so on my laptop. There I can underline and annotate easily and precisely using the adobe tools. Writing. I am a retired college professor who taught political theory and philosophy for three decades and whose hobby now is learning algebra and number theory. When it comes to producing text like this review, I use my Asus laptop. When it comes to math, I need a pad to write on. To say that the Kindle Scribe is an adequate replacement for pen and lined notebook paper would be misleading. It is so much better than that. If you spend time writing or drawing on paper (or both) trust me: use this device for a day and you will never go back. The page is about the size of a standard sheet of notebook paper minus the left and right margins and about the same space gone from the bottom. Writing on it feels like writing on paper. The “ink” flows effortlessly and precisely. You can choose a pen, marker, or pencil for your strokes. Within each of those choices there are five distinct thicknesses. Play around and you will find one that suits you. I am fond of the pencil, which is crisp but with a little variation in the width of the strokes to make it seem more alive. Where the Scribe really shines as a notepad is when you need to erase something. Five thousand years of writing produced a lot of innovations when it comes to laying down lines on paper. It produced few and mostly awkward and ugly ways of removing such marks. Problem solved. The device gives you three basic ways to erase whatever you have put on the screen. If it’s several lines of text you want to remove, you can use a lasso to surround it and then hit the garbage can icon. If it’s a few words, the bottom of the pen works like a standard eraser, except that it really erases. Using it feels like erasing with the butt end of a pencil. If it’s a character or two, you can set the button action to turn the pen tip into a very precise eraser while you hold the button. For writing down algebraic equations, this function is worth every penny I paid for the device. Managing documents. The most common complaint I have seen in reviews of the Kindle Scribe is the absence of a way to directly export documents. You can do so, but you have to send them to yourself by email. While it would be nice to be able to save my notebooks directly to my One Drive, the Scribe makes up for that with another brilliant feature. My handwriting drove at least one elementary school teacher into retirement. When I am ready to move a document to Word, I first use the AI function to “Refine Writing”. This is accessible by a small icon shaped like a four-point star that appears in the right top of the page. It turns my scribble into neat, justified text that mimics handwritten text. It is astonishingly accurate and is easily edited. Then I use the “Share” icon (just to the right of the AI icon) and select the choice that converts the handwriting to text and sends it to my stored email address where I can download it as a text file. You can skip the “Refine Writing” step, but I found that the conversion is less accurate. Another caveat. While the above procedure works very well with English text, it is useless when it comes to math. Even when I write very carefully, the device can’t seem to interpret the symbols or tell a plus sign from the letter t. It has no clue what a raised exponent means. You can, however, save a math notebook as a pdf file iamge, and it will be precisely as legible as the original. Protection. You will probably want to purchase a case for your Scribe. With my original Scribe I purchased a fabric folio cover from Amazon. It soaked up the coffee like a sponge and kept it near the edges of the screen. In case I am unclear, I do not recommend it. Today I received COBAK case in dark green. I am not sure it would protect my device from a coffee spill, but at least the cover doesn’t seem to absorb water. It has a space for the pen inside the cover (an improvement over the Fabric Folio, which had a loop on the bottom. It also has a spot to keep extra nubs. Great, if you were, hypothetically, expecting to be on cruise ship for a nine-day Pacific crossing. Bottom line: The Kindle Scribe is a marvelous device if you want to read and annotate what you read or write in black and white.

I have a previous version 16GB kindle scribe that came with just a basic pen. I love my scribe so much that I've given it a 5-star review. When I saw the new 2024 upgraded version, I wanted to upgrade to a larger storage capacity (64gb) with a premium pen (eraser is so helpful), so I traded in a very old kindle to get the 20% trade-in discount for the new scribe. I had such high hope for the new scribe. I thought that the second reimagined version will be better in every way than the previous version. Oh, was I wrong! I was extremely disappointed that the new scribe fell short on all levels compared to my previous scribe! That, in itself is hard to do - failed on all levels at a premium!!! Where do I even begin with my disappointment?! The White Bezel: The white border or bezel really does not look as good as advertised. If you enlarge my photos, you will see that it’s a white frame on top of the green border and the white frame isn’t even covering the green border that perfectly. You can also see the right side edge has light leaking out from the white bezel and it was driving me crazy when I tried to read. This does not happen with the previous version scribe. The Front Lights and Clarity: When comparing the two devices side by side, the new scribe’s front lights are not as evenly distributed as the previous version. I can see the difference between the two devices. When I have both devices set at the same brightness and warmth level, the new scribe was not as clear nor bright as the previous version, but was slightly more yellowish (oh no, that infamous yellow hue band)! When reading on the new scribe with its lights on, the surface of the screen looks as if there is a slight whitish film covering the screen making the words not as clear as the previous version. The previous version is much clearer and has better brightness and light distribution. It’s harder to tell in the photos, but the difference is very clear to the naked eye. Background Screen Color without front lights on: I couldn’t understand why when both devices were set at the same brightness and warmth, the new scribe was slightly dimmer, so I turned off the brightness (light) and compared the background of the screen and discovered that the new scribe was so much darker (grayer)! Newer scribe should be an improved version and who would’ve thought that it went backward? The Screen Surface: The screen surface of the new scribe is slightly “rougher” or textured. I use three different digital pens on my scribe because all three feel very different from one another, so I use them for different things. When I use them on the new scribe, I notice that the very smooth nib didn’t glide as much and the “rubbery” nib on the Staedtler noris jumbo became too hard to write on the new screen surface (drags too much). So, if you own a Staedtler digital pen and love to use it on your previous scribe, you will hate it on the new scribe. Oh, there is also a very bad ghosting issue with the new scribe, way worse than the older version scribe! Now, about the premium pen. I do love the extra side button and I set it as a highlighter, but the position of the side button is a huge problem. I find myself constantly clicking at it while I write because I like to put my thumb on the flat side of the pen for better stability where the button is located. The button should be located slightly higher. These are the reasons why I give this new scribe a one star. I so wanted to give the new scribe a five star like my older scribe, but there is absolutely nothing good to say about it as it’s really a downgrade from the previous version (I even tried to convince myself to keep it since I really wanted an upgrade). I bought the most expensive bundle with the premium leather folio (another disappointment - horrible quality. You can see my review on that one), so imagine my disappointment! I don’t know if I just got a new scribe with bad quality issues or all the new scribes are just as bad, but I’m not taking the chance to even go for an exchange. It is going back for a refund for sure! BTW, the new software update for kindle scribe came out at the beginning of December, so all the previous scribe owners can now download the new software update (new AI and active canvas) that came with the new scribe!

I love to read and I am addicted to the feel of physical books in my hand ... always will be. However I love this Kindle! I sit and read and study in coffee shops on weekends and the ability to not only have access to hundreds of thousands of books on various topics but to also find PDF books and research online and download it to the kindle to read later is such a benefit. Also the ability to take notes is great as well. I also like to make notes in the margins ... but, the note taking is a bit confusing at times. There are several ways to make notes in the book pages it's self but the outcomes are not all the same. Just know that there is plenty of room for notes in the book you're reading, It just isn't the same as writing in the margins of a real book. Some things I never considered. The lack of expandable memory. A 16GB is just that, there is no option to use a memory card. You'll have to buy the larger internal memory version if you are a big note taker and PDF downloader. Keep that in mind when you buy. Carefully consider the cover you buy. The one I bought is nice but it is slick and putting the Kindle on the car seat risks it being launched onto the floor board if I break suddenly. I now carry mine in the case I bought for it but then inside a messenger bag or briefcase. I like the soft light for reading in darker environments but also that it is easy to read in daylight. It connects easily to a WIFI network. It has a built in browser but I have never used it. I carry a computer with me or my phone and so far it seem easier to use and navigate through one of them rather than the Kindle, but, it's there if you need it.