Kindle Scribe (2022 release) - 32 GB, the first Kindle and digital notebook, all in one, with a 10.2" 300 ppi Paperwhite display, with built-in notebook summarisation. Includes Premium PenReducing CO2

Although I’m averse to smoothing the path of Bezos I have to admit that this invention is my best purchase for a long time, and slightly addictive.As a writer I use a lot of reference texts, and find the Scribe great to organise them: Kindle books and pdfs can be grouped in Collections. Older books (e.g. Victorian era and early 1900s) can be uploaded as pdf e.g. from the Internet Archive. The ability to write notes on the source text - these help me to retrieve the relevant page quickly - is so useful.I find the Notebooks excellent for capturing ideas and journalling. I once had a fancy leather-bound notebook but was too shy to write on the beautiful paper. Now I happily create and delete all sorts of notes. The Scribe can convert a handwritten note fairly accurately to text and email it to me. I then copy and paste the text into my draft, tidy it up, and it’s good to go.I haven’t used handwriting on a tablet recently, so I can’t compare the Scribe with competitors, but I enjoy its handwriting experience - smooth and easy. I’ve adjusted the pen thickness to simulate a rollerball. There is a useful set of notebook templates - I have made myself a diary - and notebooks can be organised into folders and subfolders.For me, the screen is the perfect size; with easily adjustable lighting it’s ideal for bedtime reading. Battery life seems excellent and it recharges quickly from any USB-C cable.There are a few drawbacks:Books published prior to the development of Kindle and still within copyright may be unobtainable for the Scribe. So if working with sources from, say, the 1970s to early 1990s this device would not work for me.I find the Scribe struggles to display some large pdfs. The limit for ‘Send to Kindle’ is 200MB, but 10MB - 20 MB seems to be the limit for viewing at a reasonable speed. I find that for big pdfs an iPhone or iPad is a more agile viewer. Books on the Internet Archive that were digitised by Google are usually below 10MB and display well; if a B+W version of the pdf is there, that’s the one to choose.There seems no way to create subfolders in the Collections, which might be a simple and useful upgrade in the future.The Shopping Trolley icon enables me to instantly buy books in the Kindle Store - this could be a good or a bad thing!Reviewers have complained that the button on the Premium pen is badly sited so that it switches accidentally between modes like ‘Pen’ and ‘Highlighter’ when writing. I set the alternative mode to ‘Pen’ so that it doesn’t matter if it switches.Folders of Notebooks don’t seem linkable to Collections.The diary template doesn’t include a calendar - diary templates with calendars can be bought from third parties but are expensive. I’ve created the equivalent of a paper desk diary by using the day-per-page template, writing in the dates by hand, creating a separate notebook for each month, and saving them in a folder named ‘Diary’.The magnet that holds the pen to side of the Scribe keeps them together on my desk but is ineffective in my bag. I’ve ordered a 3rd party case that holds the pen in a small tray. I thought the official case was too expensive.The device is slim but dense so that when reading in bed its weight is noticeable. I prop it up on a pillow.The bottom line:I love it - if I were one of those publishing assistants who had to evaluate masses of manuscript submissions all the time, this is the device I would use.

I already have a Kindle Signature but some of the books I read have tables and illustrations that are hard to read on a small screen. Kindle Scribe is fabulous and I have become quite a bookworm! The notebook features are great. It feels much more like a real notebook and it is less burdensome than my iPad Pro. The responsiveness is just right. I got the fabric case and that is good too. Read my book with Kindle upright on table while munching my lunch! It is simple but effective.Battery life is excellent - got through my holiday on a single charge, despite being a bookworm.Only disadvantage is that it doesn’t properly fit my shoulder bag due that wide bezel on one side. (It does mean fewer finger prints on the screen though, and probably allowed for a bigger battery.) That is where the Signature keeps its niche. I also go back to my Signature in the car when I’m a passenger and it lives in my bag when I need a read.I would thoroughly recommend the Scribe. It is especially good for more technical reads where there are diagrams and tables. It is a very good Kindle and the premium pen is great.Well done Amazon!FootnoteI am a Mac user and it is impossible to manually update my Kindle Scribe as the apps available on the App Store want a subscription of £20-£30 to allow MTP transfer from Mac to Kindle Scribe. Mac users are being ripped off! Please add a ‘Check for update’ feature to the Scribe to support manual update without linking to a computer.

Pros.Got this primarily for taking notes in work as I tend to scribble a lot during meetings. Have to say the feel of writing in this is like writing on expensive paper, and it picks up everything I write perfectly. Very impressed so far. Additionally; the kindle function which i use it a lot for is brilliant. Page is huge so feels like a real page, much more than the smaller version I was currently using. Battery life is brilliant and very handy for carrying around to meetings and generalCons.Price obviously is very high. Got amazon voucher for bday so was not that bad but if you paying straight up it's heavy amount to spend on essentially a kindle and notepad. The transcribe to text function is good for the most part but you still have e to review and change when sent as it will miss things especially when writing fast notes. Sending the notes as well, not as straightforward as they state, took me some goes to figure out best way and I'm not adverse to technology.TLDR: very nice, handy notebook. Feels like paper. Does what it says on the tin with great kindle function. Very expensive and not as straightforward to send notes