New Amazon Kindle Scribe Essentials Bundle including New Kindle Scribe (16GB) - Tungsten, Premium Pen, Plant-Based Leather Folio-Black, and Power Adapter

This is my second purchase (a gift to my wife). My first purchase was over a year ago. I like the larger screen as it "feels" more book like. We are 60+ and use the larger fonts. Having a larger screen doesn't make us feel like we are reading one sentence a page. I do have several older and smaller Kindles used for comparison. Surprisingly the larger device doesn't seem much heavier. While the Scribe has a note taking feature, I personally have not used it. I do like the concept but tend to just look something up verses writing a note.This light and dark mode are great for reading in bed and not disturbing your partner. My gift was a bit self-serving as my wife started "borrowing" my Scribe and I was constantly trying to remember where I had put it.

Great quality. Writing on it feels like writing on paper.

Excellent item absolutely love this item .This kindle scribe is awesome for work notes, journals, and reading all your books . The pen is awesome and it feels like your writing in paper, I highly recommend this item .

Update: I spent a lot of time with my new Kindle Scribe last night, and I am liking it better, so I am upgrading to four stars. It does take some getting used to. The issues I noted in my initial review still hold, but the note-taking and annotation functions in books and documents are helpful. It would be nice if there were a cleaner way of transferring these things to a computer. This is my initial review. I've just spent the past four hours learning this new Kindle Scribe. I've been using Kindles since 2010, so I'm familiar with much of the functionality. As an e-reader, it's as good as its predecessors, but I bought it because I wanted the note-taking functionality. Unfortunately, my expectations were greater than the capability of this device. Firstly, it is good for taking notes in the notebook mode. You can handwrite the notes and convert them to more readable text. That is nice. Amazon advertises that you can take notes on other documents, books, and so forth, and this is true, however, this function has a very awkward interface with the notebook function. You cannot convert the notes you take in a document or book into text. You can email the notes to yourself, but they go without the book or document text to which they refer. So what you get is your scribbled notes, scattered across a blank page. I have searched high and low in Amazon's documentation on this Scribe to see if I've somehow gotten it wrong, but it doesn't appear that I have. It appears that the engineers who designed this device didn't have a good idea of the needs of non-technical customers like me. It may be great for someone more tech-savvy than I. I'll likely use it for its note-taking and sending capabilities. For the price, I expected better.

I love the new Kindle Scribe! Battery is amazing, lightweight. The kindle and the case are both durable and functional! Great value for the money in my opinion. I’m glad I bought it.

I have been a Kindle fanatic for years. I have a Paperwhite, Oasis and now this Kindle Scribe. I am one of those busy people who leaves notes and lists all over the desk. I purchased this to control the paper lists in my life; in other words, as a digital notebook. The first day I transferred all of my notes/lists in there and almost wore through a whole pen tip. I literally just picked it up and started writing, the instructions are pretty intuitive. The fact that it is a Kindle too, made it even better for me. I am trying to stick to just putting cookbooks and non-fiction on there so I can mark up and bookmark items of interest, but it will be hard. I'm left-handed so I love that it, like my Oasis, flips the screen when you change hands, and you can move the notebook menu to the right too. Wish I knew how to draw, as playing with the pencil mode, I noticed you can shade with it and everything. Amazing! The quality and build of this Kindle Scribe is great, and its so thin. I haven't received the cover yet, so I hope it is not too much thicker with the cover on; but since it is magnetic, I plan to take it out of the cover if I'm holding it for long periods of time. Definitely, worth the price for me as I purchased during the Spring Sale event with a trade-in, so it was a great deal.

I purchased a Boox Note Air 3 and a Rata Supernote. So I can compare those two devices to the Scribe competently. The Boox is pretty complicated and does a lot of stuff (some of which I still haven't tried). The Rata Supernote isn't as complicated and works well as a note taker. But, the reason I love my new Scribe is that it is as good as the Boox and Rata at taking notes and handwriting. But the Scribe can mark up documents and the Boox and Rata cannot. The Boox does an OK job of running the Kindle app. The Rata isn't so good as a Kindle reader. the Scribe is a Kindle and it functions really well as a Kindle. So, essentially, I get a great Kindle AND a great note taker. I think the Scribe is superior both as a Kindle reader and as a note taking device.

I have had an absolutely horrible time with this device and Amazon in general as a company.