![]() I know some people love to annotate their books with underlining and highlights and notes unless you convert everything you read to a PDF and send it from your computer, alas, you can’t do that here.īut What About the Reading Experience? It is an Ereader First, After All. You can add a written note or a text note, but you can’t convert your own notes to text. The sticky notes are managed through an icon in the header, so you can see all of them if you need to. In almost any ebook you’ve purchased directly from Amazon, you have the ability to add sticky notes to your books - they say it’s for a cleaner reading experience, but I wonder if they just haven’t figured out how to allow for ebook markup yet. Like the Oasis, the screen is off-center, allowing for ease of grip (and it reacts to direction if you need to hold it with your right hand). ![]() It’s the largest Kindle offered so far, with a 10.2-inch paperwhite screen, and comes with a basic or premium pen. The Kindle Scribe is Amazon’s response to multiple companies offering multi-use digital tools - not just the iPad but also the reMarkable, which is a digital mark-up and notes tablet, and Kobo’s Elipsa, an ereader that also offers the ability to mark up ebooks and documents. The size and shape was perfect for my hands, and it has a case that allows it to stand on its own. So I would usually go back to my Kindle when I wanted to read prose. I really enjoyed using it for specific things, but as a daily reader, it was just…too heavy. Also, I had become intrigued by digital planners and was hoping to get my life together (not for the last time). I would be editing at least one book in the near future and figured the ability to take digital notes and write on written documents without having to deal with paper would come in handy. In late 2020, after watching my husband play with his shiny new iPad Pro, I decided to get one for myself. Is it worth it? I delve into that question in this Kindle Scribe review! And this one was no different! I love the size of my Kindle Paperwhite, but some things are better on a bigger screen, right? And then there was the other side of the Scribe, the bit that gives it its name: the writing element. ![]() ![]() When you can do more than one thing on them, I’m always going to at least fall down the rabbithole for a few hours. New gadgets, especially if they’re book-related, always catch my eye. When I first heard the news about the Kindle Scribe, I was pretty curious. ![]()
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