Amazon Announces New Kindle Scribes Including One With A Color Screen

Amazon announced caller versions of nan Kindle Scribe coming including nan Kindle Scribe Colorsoft featuring a larger type of nan customized E Ink surface exertion that Amazon uses successful its colour e-reader. The caller Scribes characteristic a awesome redesign that does distant pinch nan asymmetrical chin connected 1 broadside making nan devices look sleeker and much for illustration a tablet.

The caller Kindle Scribes now characteristic larger 11-inch, glare-free E Ink screens – up from 10.2-inches antecedently – but Amazon has managed to make nan caller versions lighter than nan first two. They now measurement conscionable 400 grams compared to 433 grams for past year’s version, and astatine 5.4mm heavy they’re thinner than nan iPhone Air.

Amazon says nan caller Kindle Scribes usage an improved beforehand ray strategy pinch mini LEDs that thief trim nan size of nan surface bezels while making nan lighting much uniform. An improved texture connected nan solid adds much clash to amended simulate nan emotion of a pen connected insubstantial while Amazon has reduced gaps betwixt that solid and nan E Ink sheet beneath truthful pen strokes consciousness for illustration they’re connected straight to nan extremity of nan stylus.

A caller quad-core processor and further representation amended nan capacity of nan caller Kindle Scribes which now connection a penning acquisition and page turns that consciousness 40 percent faster than erstwhile versions.

Amazon has besides improved nan package acquisition connected each 3 models. There’s a caller location surface that adds a Quick Notes conception for jotting down random thoughts, while precocious accessed notebooks and documents are now much easy accessible. You’ll besides beryllium capable to export your notes arsenic editable matter to OneNote truthful you tin proceed editing them connected your laptop, and nan Scribes will beryllium capable to entree documents stored connected Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.

New AI-powered features see expanded hunt capabilities crossed notebooks and elemental AI-generated summaries. As Alexa Plus expands to much users, Amazon is readying to present a caller characteristic adjacent twelvemonth letting you nonstop your notes to nan smart adjunct and person conversations astir them.

There will beryllium caller AI-assisted reference tools, too, including a characteristic called Story So Far that generates a spoiler-free recap of a book up to nan constituent you’ve read, and Ask Tthis Book that provides answers to questions based connected a highlighted transition of text. Not each ebook Amazon sells will beryllium compatible pinch those features, and they’ll first beryllium rolling retired connected nan Kindle iOS app later this year, followed by Kindle devices early adjacent year.

For nan Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, you’ll beryllium capable to draw, write, and annotate documents utilizing 1 of 10 different pen colors, aliases item passages utilizing 1 of 5 different highlighter colors. For artists, Amazon is introducing caller shading devices pinch smoother gradients.

All 3 of nan caller Kindle Scribe models travel pinch steeper value tags. Last year’s Kindle Scribe started astatine $399.99, but nan cheapest of nan caller additions is nan Scribe without a beforehand ray that now starts astatine $429.99. If you scheme to constitute aliases publication astatine night, you’ll want nan modular Kindle Scribe which starts astatine $499.99, and if you want a scatter of color, nan Kindle Scribe Colorsoft starts astatine $629.99. That’s much costly than nan Remarkable Paper Pro which uses a much precocious colour screen, but nan colour Scribe does supply afloat entree to Amazon’s expansive online bookstore.

The Scribe was first introduced to Amazon’s Kindle lineup successful 2022 pinch a 10.2-inch E Ink screen, a stylus, and caller package features that made it some a large surface e-reader and a note-taking device. But for immoderate users, its inability to straight annotate ebooks made it a frustrating solution erstwhile compared to different integer notepads. Two years later, Amazon released a caller type of nan Scribe. It was nan aforesaid size arsenic nan original but featured a refreshed creation and improved package that added functionality for illustration converting handwritten notes to editable text, AI-generated archive summaries, and nan expertise to adhd notes to ebook files that remained visible connected nan page.