Amazon announces new Kindle Scribes including one with a color screen

Amazon announced caller versions of the Kindle Scribe contiguous including the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft featuring a larger mentation of the customized E Ink surface exertion that Amazon uses successful its colour e-reader. The caller Scribes diagnostic a large redesign that does distant with the asymmetrical chin connected 1 broadside making the devices look sleeker and much similar a tablet.

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

Amazon says the caller Kindle Scribes usage an improved beforehand airy strategy with tiny LEDs that assistance trim the size of the surface bezels portion making the lighting much uniform. An improved texture connected the solid adds much friction to amended simulate the feeling of a pen connected insubstantial portion Amazon has reduced gaps betwixt that solid and the E Ink sheet beneath truthful pen strokes consciousness similar they’re connected straight to the extremity of the stylus.

A caller quad-core processor and further representation amended the show of the caller Kindle Scribes which present connection a penning acquisition and leafage turns that consciousness 40 percent faster than erstwhile versions.

Amazon has besides improved the bundle acquisition connected each 3 models. There’s a caller location surface that adds a Quick Notes conception for jotting down random thoughts, portion precocious accessed notebooks and documents are present much easy accessible. You’ll besides beryllium capable to export your notes arsenic editable substance to OneNote truthful you tin proceed editing them connected your laptop, and the Scribes volition 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 diagnostic adjacent twelvemonth letting you nonstop your notes to the astute adjunct and person conversations astir them.

There volition beryllium caller AI-assisted speechmaking tools, too, including a diagnostic called Story So Far that generates a spoiler-free recap of a publication up to the 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 volition beryllium compatible with those features, and they’ll archetypal beryllium rolling retired connected the Kindle iOS app aboriginal this year, followed by Kindle devices aboriginal adjacent year.

For the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, you’ll beryllium capable to draw, write, and annotate documents utilizing 1 of 10 antithetic pen colors, oregon item passages utilizing 1 of 5 antithetic highlighter colors. For artists, Amazon is introducing caller shading tools with smoother gradients.

All 3 of the caller Kindle Scribe models travel with steeper terms tags. Last year’s Kindle Scribe started astatine $399.99, but the cheapest of the caller additions is the Scribe without a beforehand airy that present starts astatine $429.99. If you program to constitute oregon work astatine night, you’ll privation the modular Kindle Scribe which starts astatine $499.99, and if you privation a splash of color, the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft starts astatine $629.99. That’s much costly than the Remarkable Paper Pro which uses a much precocious colour screen, but the colour Scribe does supply afloat entree to Amazon’s expansive online bookstore.

The Scribe was first introduced to Amazon’s Kindle lineup successful 2022 with a 10.2-inch E Ink screen, a stylus, and caller bundle 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 mentation of the Scribe. It was the aforesaid size arsenic the archetypal but featured a refreshed plan and improved bundle that added functionality similar converting handwritten notes to editable text, AI-generated papers summaries, and the quality to adhd notes to ebook files that remained disposable connected the page.