Native format support: Kindle (AZW/AZW3), TXT, pdf, unprotected MOBI, PRC, Audible (AAX) Rated battery life: 12 weeks of reading 30 minutes a day Screen: 10.2in Paperwhite with colour adjustable frontlight (300ppi) The Scribe has so much potential as a paper replacement but everything other than the actual writing experience is terribly basic. You can export your scribbles as a pdf by emailing it to yourself from the Scribe but you can’t sync it with any other note-taking app or service such as Evernote.ĭocuments sent to the Scribe for markup are treated like books and so end up cluttering your reading library, not grouped in with your notebooks. Notebooks aren’t available on the web or desktop Kindle apps either. You can only view but not edit or otherwise use the notebooks via the Kindle app on Android, iPhone or iPad. There’s no handwriting recognition to turn it into text.
Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĪs a simple replacement for paper, the Scribe is great, but it lacks the advanced features offered by other devices. The premium stylus has a shortcut button and eraser on the end. You can change the ink width and switch to a highlighter or eraser using a drop-down menu. Comics don’t fill the screen properly and a lack of colour means only monochrome books are fully legible but I enjoyed reading some original Judge Dredd comics in black and white. The big screen improves the reading experience for comics and graphic novels available from the recently merged Kindle and Comixology stores but it is not as good as an iPad. It is genuinely a delightful reading experience that allows the book to shine. I can hold the Scribe with one hand but its size and 433g weight – more than twice that of the Paperwhite – make it more of a couch reader where it is rested on various body parts or furniture like a large book. Otherwise, the supersized screen fits a lot of book on the screen at once. It syncs via wifi, downloads text, graphic and audiobooks to its internal storage and keeps itself updated. It has access to a vast ebook and audiobook library, each of which can be bought on the device or from the Amazon site. The reading experience is similar to other recent Kindles. There are plenty of layout, theme and typeface options available, including large font sizes to make it easier to read.
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