The new Kindle Scribe boasts improved note-taking features, but can it compete with the rising competition and justify its higher price?
My high school English teacher drilled into my head that there was a proper way to read a book: 'If you've read a book without taking notes, you've not read it at all.' She had a point — taking notes helps me engage with the material in a much deeper way than just reading. Nowadays, I am incapable of reading anything without writing down my thoughts, and my Notes app is a cluttered disaster as a result.
But it’s distracting to pull up a separate app every time I want to jot down a note and hard to find those notes later. The Kindle Scribe promises to fix that with its note-taking capabilities, making it easy to scribble in the margins like I do on paper. The original Kindle Scribe, from 2022, missed the mark for me. Here, finally, was a Kindle you could take notes with, yet you couldn’t write directly on ebook pages. Instead, you could only annotate disappearing sticky notes — and only on some Kindle titles. I quickly gave up on the Scribe, and for the past year or so I’ve mainly used the Kobo Elipsa 2E instead. Since then, the Kindle Scribe has come a long way. Now with the second-generation e-reader, you can finally jot notes directly onto a wider range of Kindle ebook pages, convert handwriting to text, and even summarize notes in its built-in notebooks. But the Scribe has more and better competition than ever. And with a price bump, it needs to nail these new features to make it worth $399.99. That’s especially true given the original Kindle Scribe is still available for $60 less, and you can download all of these features onto it via Amazon’s latest software updat
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