In-Depth Complete Guide to the Kindle Scribe

the Kindles scribe and this is all the details that I know about the Kindles scribe and hopefully by the end of this you'll have a good idea as to whether you should buy this the most outstanding feature of it is that you get fabulous deals on this and this is by far and away the cheapest entry into this size of a ink tablet when Kindle launched and you'll see how excited I was about the Kindle scrib launch before this I was really hopeful that Amazon would get into this Market at this size because what I was hopeful they would do is that they would start to bring the prices down and that is what we're seeing Kindles scribe is the cheapest entry into this size of eink tablet and that is a great recommendation for it look out on Black Friday or prime Day deals or any of these Amazon sales or look at refurbished copies of this because it is excellent value and you should be looking to get the base model at around £250 that is a great value for this size of earing screen because earing screens are not cheap in this video I'm I'm going to share with you the whole journey that I've been on with the Kindle scribe and the whole journey it's been on in terms of its updates and you'll see my opinion kind of change over time as we talk about this which I find really quite fascinating when it launched we were wondering whether they would really put the effort into the updates that were kind of promised with it so spoiler alert they do indeed go ahead and provide us with some excellent updates to the software on the Kindles scribe they're coming soon by the way before we launch into this video I do spend a lot of time making sure my videos look as good as as they can and sound as good as they can so why not consider just sharing this up to your 4K Smart TV and settling back on your sofa relaxing and enjoying this piece of content and by the end of it you should know whether the Kindles scribe is the right device for you the Kindles scribe how was it it should have been an MVP but as it turns out it's just an MVP it should have been the most valuable player it should have really taken the market by storm but as it turns out it's just a minimum viable product at this point and I really want to thank everybody who's commented on the recent live stream I did where I unboxed this and it was really interesting it was great to spend time with you let me know if you want more live streams in the future there was a comment that talked about this is actually a valid way to develop software sometimes you just need to get a product to the market so you decide what's the minimum that it needs to bring it to Market what's the minimum viable product and at the minute the software here on the Kindle scribe is really that it's just a bare minimum it's just the Kindle that you can write on that they've a promise but it really should have been Amazon's MVP and it still can be if your priorities are reading they called it the Kindle scribe however so for writers it's a bit limited is it going to be able to do what I needed to do though yes probably and this is my planner here this is my use case Beyond reading on the device and well it'll work just fine this is a PDF document that I can annotate and as you can see this is my fornite of work all planned now and I guess what Kindle can now do is they can have Big Marketing campaigns around every single launch that they do on this product that's going to allow them to keep up this hype that's already began this isn't a comparison video but naturally I will sort of talk about it versus some other devices and hopefully help you decide whether this is the device for you hang out until the end though because I am going to do some comparisons between this and the original Market material that we got from Amazon to see whether we really got what we expected from this device for Amazon I'm sure they're delighted because they're going to have reached a whole category of people who weren't really aware of eink Tablets before this launch I haven't actually seen such a large number of unboxing videos and first thought videos around a new in e in tablet before so that is exciting for this category of tech which I'm really pleased about there one thing I really wanted the Kindle scribe to do was to actually bring this technology to the masses to bring this size of ear ink screen down in price to allow them to be cheaper and I do have to admit that this is less expensive than some of the competition the thing is these new users don't have much of a comparison Point except hopefully these users will see videos like this and others on my channel and be able to make an informed judgment as to whether the Kindle scribe is really going to be the device for [Music] them so they have an opportunity with this device to listen to that new audience and see what they really want the device to be are they going to do this though is that really what Amazon are going to do that's an interesting point to see they could take this from it being a reading first device into a totally new Direction maybe into a direction we haven't yet seen from e in tablets and that would be fascinating I think it would be really interesting if they learn what they've learned already from their Kindle Fire lines of devices and bring some of those apps onto this device and it certainly is going to be interesting how the Microsoft integration works in the future if they bring this with a full Suite of office apps that are fully featured and which Microsoft have helped them design for the eink world then this could become the MVP that that it was built to be so I'm excited still to see that direction that this could go but I find it amazing though that they've actually released this device in essentially the same state as the big me goody reader incote where it desperately needs software development I'm still in a that Amazon brought it to Market in this state with features such as the web browser being this bad I mean what is going on that isn't a different language is it that's just my word I mean that's that really is the web browser having good reads integrated is quite cool as well there you go some personalized recommendations and things like that but of course you can get good reads on other devices as well so first expectation was that the 300 DPI screen is going to be amazing but um let's get my macro lens on that and we'll explore if that's really that much of a difference this is incredibly zoomed in footage and you never notice what you see in this footage in real life you are not going to see that pixelation I can tell you you don't notice the pixelation of the lines unless you properly look close at it the 300 DPI screen is good and it is very low latency as well the technology is great The Wack on pen input is great we know this we know that technology is good and we'll look forward to seeing 300 DPI screens come to other eink tablets as well all other screens are about 227 DPI and yes with this footage you can see that is a little more pixelated but I can tell you to the naked eye you very rarely notice any difference at all and the books type Ultra is the current king of pen Laten for rendering actual type text yes the Kindle looks fantastic it is really really clear really high contrast it's a great screen and you have to be at this Zoom to see any kind of pixelation around the edge of the kind of normal size character in the font now this is the book screen about the same size font and you can see some slight pixelation around the edge of the characters again you do not notice that during normal reading a normal distance from the screen yes it's a nice screen it is a really good screen it is probably a little bit deeper within the device than other devices noticeably tell the actual earing surface is a further below the surface of the tablet than on other devices a objective Improvement but in terms of real life use not really seeing much of a difference there so let's go through the promise of this the original video this was the original launch [Music] [Music] video Once Upon a Time there was a girl who loved to read yeah okay if you love to read Kindle is an excellent reading platform no nobody's denying that there's no disputing it's always been a great reading platform a grandfather who enjoyed history a yoga teacher who read to stretch her mind well okay absolutely there's no disputing as well the massive variety of titles that are available in Kindle's amazing Library you know for readers for readers Kindle's huge there's just so much I'm liking the fact that my audible account is linked as well which I've talked about before with Kindle and a busy dad who needed a little planning help for planning yet I'm very much going to be using this as my school planner this is my main use case for an tablet this is what I wanted it to do originally when I got into this and first bought the remarkable and yeah okay for planning here's my my school planner these are all my lessons for the week we have little tasks that I need to get done during my working week it's just fine fine for that however there's nothing like I'm used to being able to sort of Select some text you know like select this and move it to a different day when a note I've made I can't get it done on that day I'm used to being able to cut it and move it to a different day I can't do that on here all I can do is write or delete or undo I love the fact that they've got this more thing and the only options to do more is just move this around you cannot even select text within a PDF you can't leave text annotations which can be gathered together and compiled into one kind of notebook that you can export it does however work with the hyperlinks so that's okay and the pen versus the touch does work well I haven't found lots of accidental Palm presses which is really good because that's something that early tablets get wrong in their Inception is they do have accidental Palm presses it's a good needs a good swipe to move it left to right so for planning there are some positives but really there aren't enough features on here there's no calendar on here uh there's no kind of way to make kind of to-do lists which are marked with time okay and that's one thing if you're just making to-do lists and tick lists then you're really doing planning wrong you should be looking to block when something is going to happen in your week rather than just make a list of things that have to happen and become a bit overwhelming then one day they made a discovery something that would help them in their Journeys it was a Kindle helping your Journeys yeah absolutely I I think this is a category of tech that I'm totally excited to buy and I think is going to go very very far and help a lot more people than it currently does and Kindle scribe coming out is making it more popular that's a great thing for everybody those who love to read and write yes for those who love to read but there are better options out there for writers so now the grandfather could annotate his favorite books absolutely your grandfather can use this device it is an easy to ous device when you make something as simple as this you can also build in ease of use and that means that yes I thoroughly believe that grandfathers can in reading books they can add sticky notes and they can write in here you can add text notes Here in the Kindle books but not in a PDF for some reason and I thoroughly believe that grandfathers could use this it also has of course all of the accessibility options for instance size of font Etc that you just expect from Kindle that's great and the teacher could sign invoices for yoga mat firstly she's not even actually writing that signature there there's no way that that is her signature that she's made um secondly I don't think anyone would be looking to seriously manage their e-commerce business on this device there's no way that this is going to replace an iPad there's no way this is going to replace an Android tablet of any description Ian qu otherwise or actually just working on a tablet PC or a real PC for organizing your e-commerce just just assign documents you don't need something with a pen you need something where you can manage that inbox and outbox and this isn't it can you even send a PDF from here yeah you can send it to your email there as well but that's about you so yes you could send it to an email address but again are you really going to be sending it to a whole bunch of different email addresses how's that going to look when it arrives and that is it going to be professionally formatted say from kits Kindle which is just going to be a weird way to receive an invoice and the busy Dad could stay on top of urgent firstly The Tick list on here that that is definitely not his handwriting that is a font there's no doubt that is a font so that's not a real thing that somebody's written on the Kindle there's no pen that would look like that on the Kindle scribe anyway you can tell the difference between the tick he's making there and the ticks there um and again if you're just using tick list if you're relying on a kind of pre-made template to make your planning even if it's just your planning for a party then uh you know you're not doing it right and the girl could draw the beauty all around her and they all lived half the girl could draw the beauty all around her now looking at this she's kind of hovering the stylus over there uh it's not making a single Mark there's no way that anybody could draw this document on this tablet I mean there's bits where you can see the textured pen you know the textured brush tool you don't there is no textured brush tool there is just no way that you could draw that in a notebook you can't zoom in or out and you are not drawing that kind of level of detail with the [Music] thinnest I've said it before I can actually draw a promise there's just just no way people can draw better than me but that was not drawn on the Kindle scribe with this software for sure and as I say the textured bit on the on the lettering there was not done with this set of brushes just wasn't Ever After reading under a tree absolutely you can do that with this device and that is the way to live your life I'm sure but it's always a good thing okay well stay tuned for more content on this and later a full review after I have used this for 2 weeks for work for reading for pleasure and for reading for work going to do some other videos on it as well and talk about the launch a bit more but also talk about comparing this to other devices in the future as well I'm still excited for where this could go I'm just quite underwhelmed for where it is at launch so I was pretty disappointed with the Kindle scriber launch I must admit as you probably saw from that I was pretty disheartened by the marketing language versus what we actually got and you see these pictures of the young lady sketching beneath the tree and it just wasn't possible to do those things with it at launch they did bring out excellent sketching features later and actually it's one of the devices that I've enjoyed drawing on the most and I've got full eink drawing comparisons available as well on my channel I just was expecting it to come fully loaded I really thought it would be closer to the Amazon Fire tablets which originally started as the Amazon Kindle Fire family of devices I thought it would be a bit more of a halfway house instead it just seemed they ported their reading software straight onto this device it wasn't really considered very well people were also really disappointed that you can't write directly on Kindle books and you had to use these kind of sticky notes although later I actually found that for reading using the annotations where you could highlight bits of text and then write your handwritten annotation and that was then kind of saved to a little popup that you could bring up at any time and then was actually quite nicely exported to a PDF that you could email to yourself we're still not there in terms of software updates meaning this can be really compared favorably and has a place as the besing tablet it's nowhere near the market leaders but we're still seeing Kindle updated so fingers crossed for this and the next generation of Kindles scribe devices what I would also say is that it is a very good entry into eink and if you're asking yourself as I was before I bought my first remarkable tablet whether this is just a waste of time whether iink is a bit of a gimmick whether actually you can really enjoy using earing screens for more than just your portable e-reader for your novels well this will answer that question for you I'd urge a slight bit of caution on that though because although it's a great value entry point into the market I get a lot of comments which say that I brought the Scribe because it was a cheap way and I only want to read and I only want to write and I only care about black and white and it will do all those things for me it will just be a notebook replacement and a great place for reading and then they buy it and a month later they're like well actually now I realize how good iink is how it does fit into my work life and I want one of the better the more capable tablets so bear that in mind you might be wiser to actually go all right I know it's double the price but go for a books device if you're convinced that these will actually fit into your work life and that you'll want to be able to do more on iink in the future and actually on reflection I've been thinking quite a bit about that image of reading underneath a tree and actually that is marketing speak of course it is but I do find it really quite compelling and I do find it something that I desire spending more of my time just sitting and reading on my ink tablets and not treating them as productivity devices solely consider where it fits in your life if like me you've got a space like this to be your productivity sweet then do you really need an eing tablet do you really want an eing tablet to be your productivity based is it really better as a large screen reader with the ability to take some notes let's dive into more content about the Kindle scribe so I've been racking my brain and trying to think about the use cases for the Kindle scribe if you want to read to learn and you want to keep your notes on the book then this could be really quite good if you want to read on this really big screen then brilliant and if you want lots of books the Kindle scribe look no further this library is incredible if you want it to be your second brain well you're going to have to work around by exporting your notes to PDF and work around with a different device and a different function this isn't it if you want the eink tablet to be part of your second brain part of your knowledge management system this isn't it if you want to use it to think it lacks any of the bullet journal ideas it lacks being able to make a Content page or to do hyperlinking between pages and your notes you can't organize your knowledge on it so this isn't the second brain this is a reader rather than a thinker it's a great tool for laying out your ideas but just as much as pen and paper and that's your lot I'm really struggling to see much more than that even [Music] the even the Eraser functions are limited it's just it's not there and I can't even see any way that you can actually get access to these notebooks in the cloud or on any other device yet Kindle has got a long way to go to develop this software if they're thinking this is going to be a second brain hardware-wise it's good but at the minute the use cases are to read to learn been able to access lots of books and to keep your notes there on the books with the sticky notes not being able to organize that knowledge for use later on you'll be stuck doing a lot of workaround if you want to organize that Knowledge from the Kindle scribe so you can see I was quite disappointed early on with the Kindles scribe but you can also see probably that I've been able to make a really nice flow chart with a really nice pen tool on a really nice screen with a really nice wack on input with incidentally one of the few devices that has both an eraser on the back and a highlighter button so you know there are benefits and actually the more you grow with it the more you use it maybe you realize that it actually could be more useful to more people in those early days after the Kindles scribe launch where we were all still racking our brains about how bad the browser was for instance and how few tools there were I mean there wasn't even a lassue originally so you couldn't even copy or paste I mean we were shocked really but it was obvious that it was a nicely designed piece of Hardware it just needed the software to catch up and of course they had to do it that way around and they wanted to get it to Market early but now you do have the option of a more complete device at a great price point so let's I think before you go on it is worth making sure you are vers with the other options that are out there so this next section of this video is going to show you all the different options and put them on a kind of scale of which ones you should buy and why and I do stick by those there are some good reasons now although and I do stick by those reasons and that comparison that I've made there have been some improvements in the Kindle scribe for instance at that point it didn't even have text recognition handwriting recognition which it does now and it's as good as many of the other options that are out there let this section of the video just introduce you to the other options that are out there to make sure that you are making the most informed Choice before you go ahead and spend your money on the Kindle scbe before you buy the Kindle scribe then have a look at these Alternatives but loads of content on my channel where I compare the best in e in tablets you might have just discovered the world of ink tablets through the Kindle scribe and that's fantastic there are already some great options out there for you and I'd really encourage you to have a little bit of a shop around to make sure you get the right one stay tuned because in this video I'm going to give you a great way way to decide between those Alternatives towards the end of the video there's no way to change the template once you're in a note so as far as I can see the reasons to buy a Kindle scribe are if you have a big Kindle [Music] library and if you read a lot of non-fiction if you're reading a lot of more academic texts or a lot of self-help kind of texts or anything like that you know non-fiction the kind of things that aren't published normally as paperback sized then you'll get along better with a larger [Music] screen so if you want to go with just one device and you want to read on that and make notes on that as well your notes you don't need anything more than just kind of ink on paper because there are no other features in this notebook apart from [Music] that the writing feel is quite a pleasure and the reading because it's a Kindle is very good so if that's all you need yeah this will work so far that's all maybe in 2023 the Microsoft thing will come and be really good and if they give us a full Suite of office apps then this could be a really powerful device for productivity as well as just reading and some occasional note taking but let's talk about what it's not the drawing is rubbish I mean there is just one pen and five different things is a highlighter and a rubber there's no way to select or resize there's no textured brushes or anything on that this is not going to be the device for drawing on at all I'm Amazed by how rubbish the browser is I mean absolutely shocked that they've brought this out with an option for an iink browser and this is what we've got mean I know it primary purpose is just to follow links in books but even so tend to test out browsers with the BBC website you should be able to display the BBC website and this is what you get I mean that's not there's not some other language that's just gibberish there's not something wrong with the BBC today that's just appalling the pictures are AR even formatted correctly I mean how on Earth has this managed to get to Market with this as the browser I'm sorry that's just laughable that's a bit embarrassing Amazon and if the first thing in your update cycle has to be just make a browser that's usable let alone a fully functioned browser that can do desktop class browsing if it needs to that can memorize your passwords and all the things we just expect from browsers these days PDF transfer is easy however it's not as easy as just being able to go to a browser and find the PDF that you want and download it down onto the [Music] device for instance on remarkable there's a button here on my browser I can just send one click Send to remarkable but you can just search send to Kindle and because my computer my actual browser knows that I'm who I am and it's logged me straight into Amazon I can just now drag this in here and send it to Kindle that is really easy but as you see I've had to download it onto my computer and then send it to um my Kindle through the browser there and it should appear in my library pretty sharpish so that's straightforward it's weird how it handles PDF the fact that you can only annotate it if you send it via the Kindle system that way or by the email you can't if you want to put it on here by USB I don't see why you would want to put on by USB because that's just as easy there maybe you don't have internet connection and the PDF so you can't select the text on a PDF hyperlinks work but you can't select the text the last time I did this it came through quite a bit quicker oh and also you can't see your annotations on another Kindle device or on the Kindle app I mean why is that it's seems just so simple to implement that and it would be really useful that's how I got this one on here earlier so that was easy it's not proving to be quite as easy as last time but uh it isn't as easy aha there you go okay so maybe it's just slightly longer cuz it's slightly larger file perhaps now you can see it's come through as a proper PDF it's landscape does this even have a landscape mode doesn't have an auto rotate seem to accidentally turned it off is there any way to rotate this device I don't think there is is there so yeah apparently I can find no way to rotate this screen to make it a landscape for this PDF so that's a Miss it's a bit like going back in time really um and using eink tablets when they were frustrating this as you can see it's refreshing every single time this is not handling this PDF very well you can though annotate on the PDF um and that's absolutely fine you can't select any of the text or make any annotations linked to the text and let's see if I zoom in so I can kind of see that half and then I want to read the other half I can zoom across I have to deal with this really annoying refresh and I change page can I change page now now okay I need to zoom back out again I suppose then I can change page here's a good example look so big big concern for us in physics that we don't get many people to actually become physics teachers [Music] unfortunately way below our Target numbers in physics and Computing maths do a little bit better uh but we're not doing so well in physics and then proportion of the working age tees that we leaving look gosh we have a real problem although this is usable I can do this it is not a good experience when you compare it to something thing like reading a PDF on a books device and I will do that um in a coming video but uh that's not what this video is and the other thing is well yes sure the Kindle reading experience is really good and reading Kindles on here is really good but guess what so is the Kindle app on so many other devices as well so if you just want to use a Kindle device well this is fine but it's better than fine it's nice it's good and now that we can do the sticky notes on it that's a good thing it's the first time you've been able to do that on Kindle when I share this note [Music] out here I can see on my sticky notes I can send to email and that's my only choice I'm not seeing as well as seeing page 30 oh is actually displaying that the highlighted text that's fine and I go to it that's fine and I can edit it so that is acceptable isn't it so if you're in the Kindle world this is a good use of some note taking features on the Kindle books and this is the first time you've been able to do that really with a pen input but if you want to draw look at remarkable or books because the Kindle scribe won't be a great drawing experience and if you want to write look at books or look at supernote because they will give you a much better experience of actually making typed text and okay well the last point to make about the Kindle at this point is that it's a good price it's not too expensive relatively against the remarkable certainly for the entry level you can get one of these for just over £300 not a lot of storage but you'll be okay as long as you don't want to rely on Audible all the time the standard pen I'm sure is just fine but you probably want the one with the rubber and the second button and having a second button here is quite good so I've got highlight and rubber without having to access any tools and I don't want to have to go into that tool palette cuz FR with so much but just like the remarkable if you're adding case then or you bump up the storage then it does quite quickly get up to that £500 Mark which is the sort of price of the supernet books anyway and also to say well yes you do have access to Goodreads and Goodreads is a good place to go for book recommendations whereas it's in more I believe if you've never used it then it is a good place to go it should have me logged in already here I am with my books more coming soon and that's an excellent Discovery and recommendation system it's kind of algorithm based if you want it to be or it can be just sort of huge database based if you prefer to search that way and that's nice to have but of course it's not exclusive to Kindle as promised at the start of the video here is a way to decide if you're not sure on what I've just gone through in terms of how might you decide if this is for you or one of the others but I think if I draw a little bit of a matrix for you if I I'm going to use a darker [Music] line [Music] and there's no way to make a straight line which is quite frustrating really just go slowly use my architecture [Music] skills on this end I'm going to put writing and this end I'm going to put reading and so to use this to give you a recommendation just think what is your main use case going to be is your main use case going to be over here at the reading end or over here at the the writing end and on the vertical axis today we are going to have work and pleasure so is your use case mainly for writing or for reading is your use case mainly for work or pleasure well let's go through some examples the Cobo for instance is a great reader and it does have the Advanced Notebook features and so you could probably put it somewhere here on the reading end possibly a little bit closer to the writing actually and because of those ad notebook features you're going to get some great things for work as well but I wouldn't put it as maybe not quite as high up on the work axis there the remarkable I don't think it's a great tool for work but it is a better tool for writing than some others it is not the world's best [Music] reader and I don't think it has enough ways to integrate with what already exists probably in your work life to for it to be amazing at work and they're really going for the work thing but there are better options if you want to use something for work than that the book's note I'm actually going to put here somewhere towards the writing end and it's the no air2 currently no A2 plus is the best in that and then the book's tab I'm going to put it's definitely not a reader would be better for writing CU of the keyboard cases Etc as well up here and is definitely if you're going for something for purely for work is probably going to be the book's tab just now supernote definitely over here on the writing end but does have some good reading features as well and probably I would suggest is more in the line of work than it is for pleasure it doesn't have back lights for instance so if you want a bedtime reading then the supernote is not that and then lastly where is the Kindle the Kindle I would suggest is way over here on the reading end it's the most reading orientated of the main devices of this size and it is also firmly in my opinion a pleasure based reader rather than a work-based tablet that is not to say that is not more useful for work than a normal size of Kindle Kindle paper white or the Kindle itself but it is definitely not a work orientated device it's more orientated towards you getting pleasure out of reading which is no bad thing hopefully this can help you sort of Imagine where you are are you is it is writing more important to you is reading more important is work more important or is pleasure more important in terms of you buying this device or one of those others that's a nice way to compare and I hope that helps you make the buying decision more content on the Kindle coming soon of course including a full review after I've used it for 2 weeks of work I won't be giving you my opinions until I've actually lived with it and I can give you my real world experience of this device I'm not just going to go through the features which wouldn't take long anyway so back for more with that and I will do actual comparisons to the majority of these devices and of course one of my epic smashes where we go through a whole load of different devices and compare them on matrices mainly to do with using these devices for work if you're looking for something for reading for pleasure that's your main use case this is great buy it it's wonderful links in the description I really like making that kind of comparison on a matrix and thinking about the different use cases and the different strengths and weaknesses of the different ining tablets that are out there hopefully that's a helpful model for you to think through your own buying Choice the next part of the video I'm going to talk about the difference between reading on a Kindle device versus reading on another ining tablet that has the Kindle app installed so let's go into that the Kindle app on Android devices or the Kindle itself what's better what's better for reading I've got a whole range of different devices here I've got some book books devices from small through medium and large and I have got the Kindle paper we I've got the Kindle scribe as well and let's compare reading on the app versus reading on an actual Kindle itself one thing I can say is that the way that a Kindle wakes up is excellent and if you want something that opens and you're pretty much ready to read every single time then I do think the Kindle the way it handles the books is really really good you can also of course do dark mode here on this Kindle this is the Kindle Paper wire signature edition and you can do dark mode on the Kindle scribe you can do dark mode on my phone it seems but I think that's just because it's taking the kind of global dark mode of the Android device rather than it just being the app itself because I don't seem to be able to find the dark mode in the Kindle apps here on these other Android devices so let's clear the decks a little bit and let's have a look first of all at the dedicated readers so this is the Kindle paper white and this is the books Leaf 2 it's a really nice small screen reader here from books out of these two the books is the more expensive of the devices but the books is really competing with the Oasis the Kindle Oasis rather than the Kindle Paper wi and I will have a comparison um coming soon on that so let's go into the Kindle app here on the books device which as you can see looks perfectly Lovely One Thing that's interesting here is it thinks it's on a LCD screen and books themselves have done a great job of optimizing their apps so they work really well you can see it's gone into normal display mode but I can change that into Regal if I want the very very best but this now is matching the way that Kindle does it which is every sort of once in a while doing a full refresh not every single page turn but every few page turns it decides I need to do a full refresh to make sure I've got a nice clean and crisp image whereas here on the books is actually deciding to do that because books is asking it to do it because it thinks I say it's on an LCD screen at this point as you can see it's doing a page turn animation which doesn't look great on this mode but looks perfectly fine if you go and you use one of the other modes for instance the speed mode here you see it looks more like a page down animation whereas the paper it just does a flip I don't think you can ask it to actually do you can ask it to do a full page Refresh on every single one but I don't think you can ask it to do an actual page turn animation but that is not a big deal not a big deal in the slightest the other differences that I can see come down to sometimes just where things are so if I'm in the book here I don't see popular highlights here but I do see popular highlights when I go into the menu notes and highlights and popular and yours I haven't got any obviously at this point in this book whereas here popular highlights is in this list here so it's just in a slightly different place and popular highlights is one of my favorite features currently about Kindle app or device because it allows you to really skip to what other people have found to be the most useful parts of the book I can incidentally match sort of brightness this is on a low brightness at the and the book screen does look just as bright and just as contrasty as the Kindle itself the other thing that this does have which a Kindle device doesn't have is word rner now word Runner you might find this to be ridiculous idea that won't interest you at all but actually it's shown that you can actually read a lot more information a lot quicker if you read in this way whereas this because it isn't allowing you to do any kind of faster screen mode than just the ordinary Refresh on demand mode the kind of normal screen mode isn't going to let you do this whereas because this thinks it's on a 30 HZ LCD screen minimum is just acting like that and you can see it looks fine you can definitely read like that this is a comfortable way to read I don't necessar think that is the best way to read Because what you're not doing then is actually reading onto your own situation you're immersing yourself in Reading rather than sort of taking the time think huh how can I apply that to my own situation it's great for just I need to get something blitzed I need to get through something quickly but it's not the best for actually reading to learn and to improve things this is the two smaller ones I would say honestly I'd read on either if I was just looking for something to read then the Kindle would probably be the thing to use I must say that that kind of quick wake up is really really good everything is well formatted for the screen but you know I would certainly wouldn't kick out of bed and if you need to use another library or you want to get books from other places then definitely the books is a great option for that and this is a great reader oh um did they add the page turn no there is now an option for page turning that you can change in here in books so if I go into settings I can choose sidek key settings and I can ask it to do forward and backward in other apps yeah those page turn buttons still don't seem to be actually turning a page in the Kindle which is a real shame maybe there's something that I'm not getting right there so if anyone's got any advice how to actually activate those in Kindle that would be a real benefit to that next then Kindle on a large screen like this actually I really do quite like reading Kindle books on this phone here because this is an OLED screen and in fact if I go down and I just reduce the brightness to to a minimum I can tell you that is how much brightness I read on at night time which is not very bright at all so there is not a lot of eye strain going on from reading that at nighttime I don't tend to read on this at night time and that is because I use my Nova air to read on at the moment on Kindle and I'm going to show you that in a moment something that you can't do with the Kindle app here which you can do on that which is to actually make handwritten notes and although you can't do it as sticky notes within the device there you can make handwritten notes on the Nova air or Nova Air 2 or any of the books devices by just having a notebook open at the same time in split screen mode I'll show you that in a second and that is how I'm reading at night time at the moment and although sure it's easy to enter notes on an Android device because you can use things like this which I don't think there's any Kindle that actually has voice input apart from Maybe by Bluetooth through speakers using a pen to make handwritten nodes is a real Delight whilst you're reading and therefore enter the Kindle scribe so how's the Kindle scribe experience versus any books tablet at all be this the tab Ultra or the note Air 2 and the note Air 2 is the one I was going to naturally show on this but actually I'll be honest with you the one that I'm using in this way at the moment is the Nova air so if I open up Kindle on the Nova air then I can come down here and go for split screen mode and as you can see see I have the book I'm reading next door to a Notes app and my notes app here as I'm working as I'm reading because this book is the type of book that really gets you thinking and what you want to do whilst you're reading this type of book is really to think about applying it as you're doing it to your own use case so I'm reading here on this wonderful this is a 300 DPI screen as well and I'm making notes on this side about actions that I'm going to do as a result of this reading that's a real pleasure so I'm able to simultaneously read make notes on this one device now of course that is the main benefit of the Kindle scribe over the other Kindles is that now you can make handwritten notes on your Kindle books or you can make handwritten notes let's say I'll just say that you can make handwritten notes with your Kindle book and here they are let's make a handwritten note on this Kindle then you can see it's super easy to use I want to annotate this little part here make a note I want to make a scribe note so I can go [Music] pen well this is a handwritten note whereas a sticky note slightly different because I come here and I go sticky note and I click just looks ever so slightly different but it's the same [Music] thing it does work okay and you can also go ahead and you can export all of my notes can send them to myself and well that will just go to my ordinary email address or I can put in a different email address I want to send it to that's fine but it isn't slick because now I have to receive that in my email address and well I'm going to get if I do that I'm just going to get a PDF with a bunch of sort of pictures I won't be able to copy that text into anything whereas this is in the books ecosystem and I can search every single word through this entire notebook to find Pages even if I write this scruffy is actually managing to pick up my text most of the time I can ask it to convert all of that to digital text so the Kindles scribe isn't quite the experience of the books just yet and it hasn't come through yet to up here we are your notebook download PDF there it is it looks like a PDF now y y this is not appearing here in my online Kindle Library I don't know I have the annotations in there they are although they haven't come through yet it's recognized that I have some more annotations that I've highlighted some other things but they haven't come through because I think they're handwritten notes so I've got a highlight but I haven't got a handwritten note as far as I can see yet there's no way to access any of the notes that you've got on the Kindle scribe off the device it's telling me that it is backed up in the cloud but as far as I can see the only way that I could get that down is if I got a new Kindle scribe and I decided I wanted to bring all of the previous notes and stickies down from the cloud fine that's useful should I break the device there isn't very much use in terms of me actually managing and organizing my knowledge I think there's still a distance to travel in terms of using this usefully as a knowledge management system if I wanted to do some intense study which I often do with books then using this side by side system on either a smaller books device like this or a larger book device like tab Ultra or the note air2 would be far more preferable than just making these incidental little sticky notes but if you are reading and you just want to every now and then oh that's a interesting thought jot something down which might come as an idea might be useful as an idea later on or next time you read that book you want to sort of remind yourself of something that you were thinking of at that point then the sticky notes is a fine integration but it isn't a useful thing for like intensely learning from books so books BX is still the platform of choice if you want to learn with books even if that book is a Kindle book I I think that's correct I don't think that the Kindle scribe is the best place for academic reading by some margins and that's a difficult point because the smaller Kindle readers are great for reading fiction absolutely wonderful place back pocket of your jeans if you like slips in and out of a bag great devices absolutely and I bought both my daughter and my son the kids edition with the little pair of headphones that go with it and they love them and it is really nice that they get to have screen time and use a bit of technology that they love with it being based around reading so I absolutely recommend wholeheartedly Kindle as just e-readers whereas if you want to read academic documents then the benefits of the books PDF reader the Neo reader far outweigh the more academic reading on the Kindle scribe however some books that are in that kind of halfway house they kind of popular sign s maybe or I read a lot of books about marketing and content creation and teaching as well which are designed as books which are not meant to be that kind of tiny fiction paperback size but the slightly larger size work really well on this screen like this for example which is a small guide on how to use Rosen Shin's principles in teaching that is pretty much this screen size and that is an excellent use case for the Kindle scribe I hope that helps put it in context that the type of reading that you do will dictate whether the Kindle scribe is the right thing for you or a smaller Kindle or one of the books tablets and certainly the A4 size books tablet the tabx is excellent for reading academic documents on I'll also say one of the more recent of the updates has allowed you to write on some books and only really kind of puzzle books or low content books for journaling perhaps where they've actually enabled it such that you can write directly on the screen so it isn't the case that you can write on any Kindle there's that difficulty with the Reflow but there are are some options where you can actually write on them and make a book more like a journal or of course use puzzle books so this next part is my definitive review and before I review all of these in in tablets I make sure that I've used them for work for a minimum of two weeks so this section you can be sure has been based on me successfully using the Kindle scrip as my planner as my organizer at work and it did work I still find it strange how you navigate around this thing because it just isn't like a productivity device was able to use it as my planner but I did miss some of the things that the othering tablets I was used to could do this is my full review of the Amazon Kindle scribe and I've been using it well I used it for work for 2 weeks and I've been using it on and off as a reader around the house because that's what it's best for for several months now but I must say after those two weeks using it as a professional I couldn't wait to get back to a books device whilst I do have to admit that reading is its best function and it is really good at that it does have the note taking function and that's pretty much the only addition from an ordinary Kindle and yet they've called it a scribe but there aren't many features for writers not for real writers who've got any audience apart from just their own to-do lists or notes to themselves for me what I am enjoying it for is using it with books like this one where it has thinking tasks on the way and you can sort of stop and make yourself a sticky and you can do your own little bit of thinking right there on the page and that's useful to come back to later but more on this later cuz those sticky notes are pretty limited when you read in that way and you actually do an exercise you immediately apply that to your own use case and that's one of the joys of academic reading on any ink tablet that you can take notes on and I would say that I actually prefer the book's way of working with that with a split screen view and a dedicated notebook for that book so it's a great reader but why can't it also be a great Note Taker why can't we have both books managed to do it excellent reading features excellent notes taking and excellent productivity features Cobo managed to do it good reader good notebooks with Advanced Notebook features okay they've got some way to go in terms of their update schedule but the point is still there that actually a device like this a large green in in tablet can be good at both reading and note taking this isn't a pure notebook and it shouldn't be so it shouldn't really be a direct comparison between it and the remarkable of the supernote but they are far better notebooks than this what's shopping Amazon giving us an amazing note taking experience this device needs updates but then there are the specs and the standout specification is obviously the screen the 300 DPI screen is excellent but it doesn't make a world of difference in your day-to-day use and that's what you're always going to get from my reviews what is my actual experience not just a specification comparison I use the devices for work for a minimum of 2 weeks before I make up my mind and I'm going to rate this against the same bunch of categories that I do with with all my tablets so you can see directly what I think about them against the competition let's get into it there's just not very many templates there these dots are too big yuck I'll just go plain and there aren't any [Music] tools let's go so the first category is the notes app which is a little bit rubbish to be honest one pen style and just a few backgrounds you can have different thicknesses you've got a rubber and you've got a highlighter highlighter is quite good I don't even think yeah there's a ano but that's fine it's not a great note note taker there's no way to catalog there's no way to search and you can have collections which are like folders but you can only have one level with those so you can't have a folder within a folder so you can't have a Paras system for instance for PKM where you are managing all your knowledge in a set folder structure that's the same on all devices this is not going to be good for managing anything deeper than a few sort of quick notes to yourself there's no handwriting recognition there's no tags there's no search across all notebooks on the whole device it's pretty darn limited must say that you can actually draw with it in the note taking app here's my spider drawings which I made in an art lesson my butterfly drawing it's it's quite nice you know you can get a good effect actually with the highlighter and the different pen levels I think they are intending to bring us some new pen tools let's hope they also bring us a raft of actual useful basic note taking features laying out your thoughts in kind of visual flow charts is good on a ink tablet again though wouldn't it be useful if I could have just tagged these or made links between those pages and other Pages there's just so much that it's missing compared to the competition the pen does render quite nicely I know it's only one pen and I know they' talked a lot about there not being many pressure levels but the actual kind of way that the pen looks on the page is fine it's not bad at all and I find that I quite enjoy the way my handwriting looks here on the device it's just not in the same league as the remarkable the supernote or the books just give us more choices and there seems to be a fair amount of Jitter and some kind of weird lines we don't get sort of really smooth lines for drawing that we would really expect from a premium tablet and you get these kind of weird sort of stuck line ends which don't look great either and although I did do some nice drawings it's not really going to be a device for artists so the notes app an absolute disappointment I'm going to give it a five the reading app though is good Kindle unlimited is great you get popular highlights which I absolutely love at the moment which is an excellent way to sort of scan through a book and find out what other people have found useful from from that book and if you just think oh that looks like a good book but I just want to give it an hour rather than 10 hours then you can very quickly find some really key information it's an interesting way to read non-fiction books I like Kindle I am a fan but there isn't many advantages over let's say the Kindle app on a different device or even the Kindle app on a phone or just an ordinary Kindle the sticky notes don't go far enough to be such an advantage to buy this over let's say a books device the weird thing about those sticky notes is that you don't seem to be able to write more than a few sort of lines you can't sort of make this larger than what it is I don't think you can you just there's nothing to do really you just have that box space you do have access to a dictionary and sort of lots of lookup and useful things within the device and you can export your stickies and notes but there's nothing special here also I have to to mention the way that it handles PDFs if we look at this this is my PDF planner I've managed to not click on that my PDF planner for the two weeks I was using this at work and you can see you can write on it but you can't select any of the text and the hyperlinks are actually a little bit broken like these ones seem to be going roughly the right place but people find that sometimes yeah I clicked on Monday there and it took me to Tuesday people find that actually they see seem to have sort of been moved around the page and that's because what it's doing is if you want to annotate on it you have to send it via the cloud you have no choice of that and it doesn't actually send a PDF what it does is it crunches your PDF into its own kind of proprietary Kindle PDF like format and then it becomes something where the text isn't actually real text so it's just like an image that you can write on it's ridiculous it's totally weird or you can actually keep it in a PDF and you can transfer it by USB and then you can't annotate on it so Voya looked into this and made a really great video where I actually talks about they told us we could write on PDFs and that is not really the case what is the case is that they'll crunch a PDF for you into a format that they can write on for some reason it's very weird but this was my main use as a planner and okay it did work the hyperlinks were okay they were usable but I could make it work for that kind of single use case so the reading app I am going to give it a good score it is the standout reason if you want a you're reader and you're already invested in the Kindle ecosystem with Amazon with things like audible then it's a no-brainer really if you want a large size reader so other apps well there aren't many if I click into more there's basically other apps there's a web browser which I've talked about this and laughed about this many times before here it is attempting to show me uh what I would consider to be a very very standard and very basic web page the BBC website if we go to something like wikip IIA let's have a look for that I me know it doesn't even search from the B I mean I know I could go to Google but come on this is the 21st century here we go it's not using the full width now I'm told if you change it to article mode it might look a little bit better yeah okay so that very on wikkipedia main page I've got one thing with no links to get out of that I mean it's just a little bit unusable okay it's there should you be reading something and you really just want to look up a thing really quickly find the Wikipedia page from for that it's it's not a good browser what I would suggest you'll do instead is that you'll still just leave it on the same page on your Kindle and you'll get your phone out and you'll use Chrome or Safari or an actual web browser to look things up and to be honest what it just shows is how little money and little time was spent on R&D for this particular device and I find that quite disrespectful as somebody who's going to pay up to £400 for a device like this I would expect it to have basic functionality like that if they're going to include a web browser just make it work remarkable don't include a web browser as part of their marketing they say that's because it's distraction free but perhaps it's because they didn't have the time and effort to put it in and so they decided it's better to leave it out than just do a half ass job basically that PDF discrepancy I've talked about already it's ridiculous it either converts its own format or or it's just like you can't write on it and then there's the good read section which again is like fine it's nice to have it linked here it's nice to find a place to get your recommendations but really am I getting more from this than I would by just visiting Goodreads and web browser well no not really in fact I'd say probably less so for other apps I'm going to give it a round two which is possibly the lowest apart from the ellip score for apps and that's not fair on the ellips really cuz it's actually got some games and things on it on to the hardware now and talking about the pen and Screen field it's a really plasticky pen lots of people have talked about that they really like this pen I I don't I it's not awful but let's just compare it to like the very first Wacom stock pen this is the early Wacom stylus that they brought out um it's a plastic pen it's got a eraser button it has something on the back which I think does absolutely nothing in incident in this pen but I do sometimes use this stock wack on pen and it's fine doesn't have the magnetic snap of course but this pen this is the premium pen which I think you pay sort of £30 extra is that right but this just feels very plasticky I don't find it a very premium experience at all the nibs are the stock wack on nibs as far as I can tell it does have the Eraser and it does have the highlighter buil in which all of which is quite nice I must admit and the snap is is fine but it just when we look think about what a premium pen I think should look and feel like then it's nowhere near I didn't actually know that the wack on EMR could actually do the two different button functions I thought it was over an eraser or just it could be logged to a different function but having the highlight and the Eraser is pretty good I don't know why more companies don't do that so at least there's that in its favor the screen feel is fine it's got a kind of not incredibly rough but reasonably friction surface and you can kind of get that writing sound going as well if you're absolutely into that and the writing latency is very very good it's right up there at the Top If not the best writing latency that there is so that was particularly impressive and that means all is not lost in terms of the future of this device in my opinion I must say with any of them that are kind of in the region of 20 MCS of latency then you just don't notice it and you won't really notice the difference between them but it does make things things like drawing and writing feel quite responsible on it and as to say about the actual screen well there's lots of dots for every inch and the lights are very good as well you do get a nice evenly lit screen lots of a big range it looks still quite nice and white even without any lights on at all and these front lights do give it a lovely even and whitish feel even on the warmer settings so this is good it does look good we're going to give it for the pen and Screen A7 it's one of the better features next the design and build for me I don't know how easy this is going to be to show on the camera but there's there's quite a large gap I mean sort of fingernail size gap on between the screen and the edge of the thing now I've been really looking on everyone's reviews to see if everyone's got and I've asked people as well to see if everyone's got the same thing there seems to be a few people that have that that have a big gap between one or more of the edges and a few people that is actually really tight to the edge so that doesn't show me Great manufacturing tolerances I was really surprised when that was the case I don't think it's sort of enough of an issue to send it back but you can even if you look closely in there you can even see the little points where the hardware is clipped to the kind of bucket the aluminum bucket that it sits in it's going to get filled with dust it might eventually be a problem it just doesn't look good I also feel that it's not a great design it's not Innovative it's not special in any anyway it's fine but like most Kindles it's kind of like a work a day design pen I've said is very plastic and a premium pen should have a premium field not just an extra button and my initial battery experience was bad so this was interesting I wasn't sure if I was doing something wrong I was getting like less than two days of battery life which was a bit ridiculous it might have been that it was like pollen Wi-Fi like the old uh the paper did before its updates and it was running running down battery cuz it was just trying to constantly get on a Wi-Fi network the battery just seemed like a really unreliable percentage once I gave it like a long charge and I finished I thought oh it's only up to 70% totally weird and then later that day I looked at it again and it was like up to 95 without any more charging I mean like what on Earth is that now though that was out after like the first couple of days now after a longer term review so I must admit the batter is working just fine maybe mine was a bit faulty maybe initially it just needed a little bit of a full charge to kind of calibrate the battery now other reviewers are saying this is very very good so you know I'm happy to say that that mine is now good as well but I'm kind of annoyed about the initial reviews where everyone said this battery will last for 2 weeks they hadn't actually had the devices in their hands for 2 weeks or or longer you know they they were talking about this amazing battery life and I felt well no I'm getting this unreliable battery performance I can't look at the percentage and be sure that that is correct which is a nuisance frankly let's get the screen a bit of a white so one of two things has happened happened there either they were kind of blinded by the hype you know and I can understand that as well you'd be really biased towards good news I wanted to tell good news about this as well I was really excited as well maybe they felt they should give good news because Amazon maybe sent them one before launch and I can understand that as well because it's one of the principles of influence is reciprocation somebody does you a good turn and you feel like doing them a good turn but for me I remember feeling disappointed by that and this is why you should wait to see full reviews of people who actually used the devices for longer periods of time they had had time to test out the battery yet and so them telling you that they were getting two weeks wasn't really reliable in my opinion so it's just not a special design at all and it's not particularly wellb built uh I know that Kindle has never really tried to be like the Apple the sort of desirable Tech but they make functional devices that fit into your everyday life and you don't have to feel precious about and this one sits in in that category I'm down with that but let's not get over excited about the design and build of this device I'm going to give it a six features then the extra features really just comes down to Bluetooth and that's no small thing I'm a regular listener to Audible and Audi books and I do like the functionality that you can actually just pick up where you left off reading with your audio book just connected to any Bluetooth speaker or for me is the car just be aware that might mean that you need to own both the Kindle copy and the audible copy which is fine if they unlimited books that you kind of already have access to but it's not something that you're going to need be able to do with every single book reliably you can't ignore that 300 DPI screen as a kind of Hardware feature but they aren't getting the best out of this screen because they aren't giving you access and seamlessly changing between different screen modes they're really just treating it as a full e-reader that occasionally does a full screen refresh but it looks great and I must say I'm never looking at the screen and thinking wow this is incredible this is streets ahead of other devices and when I go back to other devices that are still on the 226 27 kind of DPI I've never thinking to myself oh my word this is really pixelated and I can't use this or enjoy reading on it or writing on it so don't think that this is the B1 Endor and personally I couldn't wait to go back to the books tab Ultra for my daily work use at work and so that should tell you everything you need to know about that screen and I think that thing about the books is that they're using that GPU to really get the best out of that original ining screen and this 300 DPI will be filtering into other devices soon I'm sure so for the features I'm just going to give it a six as well with regards to the company and I'm just talking about the company with regards to this device let's just talk about the company Kindle rather than get into Amazon and The Wider huge corporation that it is Amazon do do a good job with returns so we're talking about customer service first and I imagine the return pallets on day one or two of this were starting to get filled up with quite a few of these as people were disappointed with the actual functionality that they got versus what they may be expected but Amazon do let you pretty much just return and and type in a reason and they'll accept that however like a lot of big companies it's difficult sometimes to get a human to talk to you're sort of stuck behind chat box or the return options are maybe buried quite deep within the web page so there is that but I'm going to give the customer service is seven because you can sort of rely on a big company to do a steady good job of things like returns or Replacements the cloud it's fine in that it syncs your reading progress and your annotations that is your written annotations your typed annotations it doesn't seem to sync your scribbles although I think you could get those scribbles back down onto a different Kindle scribe device but I can't seem to have accessed those sticky notes or notebooks anywhere apart from on a Kindle scribe and that is really not good enough at this point I can see my my PDF planner here in the cloud but I can't read it I can send it to a different device but if I do that it won't come through with any of the handwritten notes it's just not really there yet in terms of using this as a note taker with the cloud we'd hope for something that you can actually see and use everywhere like on your phone on an app or certainly on a desktop so this is the cloud and you can access this by your account and then your content and devices and you can find exactly what you've got on all your Kindles and in fact it's all your Amazon content or you can go to the Kindle Cloud Reader and you can see your library in there and you can see notes and highlights so you can see the books that you've actually annotated and highlighted but again all you can see here is actually the highlights and any typed notes that you've made you cannot see the stickies that you've written in which is a big Miss in my opinion this needed to be launched with a actual functional Cloud if anyone was going to use this for personal Knowledge Management this really is not good enough for something which has been advertised as a scribe rather than just a reader that you can write on again it's a little bit disrespectful in terms of the people who initially bought into this device it wouldn't have been too difficult for a big company like Amazon to just send bit Maps basic compressed jpegs of these note taking pages is just basic so this is going to get a six although I feel like after saying that now I feel like I've been a bit generous on that one but let's go with that updates the device does need updates it needs it more than any ink tablet that I've used I'm hopeful but that's all Amazon definitely rushed this device out for Christmas in 2022 and they've not done a respectful job of analyzing what the competition actually offer they have said that there will be Microsoft integration and that could come to save the day but we're just going to have to watch the space on that and they aren't publishing it seems a kind of road map of when that's going to come now we're relying on updates because if you're watching this channel you're probably a little bit initiated already to the idea of using eink tablets for making notes and managing your knowledge but the vast number of users are just going to see this as being the first time that they can right on a Kindle they're going to see this as being the device the the sort of first the big one the large screen Kindle that you can write on and they're not going to expect that so I think there's not a lot of imperative for Amazon to actually put those updates in because a lot of those people will be satisfied that now they've got a Kindle they can write on maybe Amazon aren't looking to position this as an alternative to an iPad maybe they know that they're not going to win that they're not going to become the productivity device but I really expected when they release this for it to sit somewhere between their Kindle and their Kindle Fire lines and then they could see this in in can be perfect for managing your knowledge for reading and learning and doing all of those extra productivity tasks that we use our notebooks for and it's a disappointment to say the least and our smaller voice probably won't be heard by Kindle and I suspect that the R&D team will just finish the Microsoft integration that'll be a minimum kind of viable product really that'll be a minimum expectation you might be able to view your word document or something wouldn't hold your breath for perfect one note integration we can hope but I think they'll do that and then I think they'll move on to working on the next Kindle product so watch this space but for now we don't know with no way of known it's a five so that's the main kind of categories the last category is the flow category and we'll put this in because there is something subjective about using certain devices and for reading non-fiction under a tree this is going to be one of the nicest experiences of all the ink tablets that's good but that's kind of where it ends the moment you want to write something that's intended for an audience bigger than yourself the moment you want to use this for any professional work it becomes a bit of a dead end so for me in my use case I'm certainly served by so many other devices and for many of you that's going to be the case too that being said it is an easy to use device and it is pleasurable to use I didn't dislike having it I didn't dislike using it I felt that I got along well with it it did what it can do perfectly fine so I am going to give this quite a high score for flow because for people who are looking for ease of use for people who are looking for a device that gets out of your way and that you can make handwritten scribbles on and that you can use for thinking but not really need that to fit into any other kind of workflows this will flow just fine the subjective category is double weighted so it's like saying it's a seven but I'm going to give it 14 points so total then 67 so not bad it fits it somewhere around the big me big me good e-reader ink note but there are so many positives of that device over this one and that's an example of a device which is considerably let down by its flow this is a good price it's a great screen the pen is good so well done eink and Well Done Wacom you've made some really good technology there but the software gosh it is just a Kindle that you can write on for now at least but if you want to buy it if it makes sense to you then go ahead it's a good price and if that's of use to you an upgrade in the reading area a Kindle that you can write on if that's all you need additionally yeah it's good that's all it is for now but it's not going to replace any ink tablet or any Computing in your work bag for study for learning or for work compared to other devices it does pretty poorly it's somewhere in terms of total around the big me it's a better reader than coobo it's a better reader than the remarkable but it's not as good as a notetaker as those two and I think that was their main competitors they probably considered when they were working on this device and they've done that they've beaten them in terms of reading this is nowhere near remarkable as a notetaker especially after the remarkable update 3 and it is nowhere near an overall device experience as the books tablets are and I would strongly recommend that you look at comparisons with those other devices and you look at the reviews of those other devices and ask yourself if you would actually benefit from the extra features and extra power that they're going to give to you but if you settle that you want to Kindle it's good for reading that you can actually just write on it then go with this let me know what else you would like to see it compared to on my channel in the near future and one thing that I hope came out in that review was that I did enjoy having a reader with me all the time and more than the other reading tablets having something which is designed firstly for reading did mean that I read more in my daily life and it's worth reflecting that stopping to read at work really benefits you as a professional it's not all rushing around however as you could see there was a lot to be desired with the Kindles scribe atwork the way that I use that data to grade and then compare these tablets puts the Kindles scribe about in the middle of every ink tablet that I've tried but then the update started coming so let's read on well we said this device needed updates and the good news is that they're here and they'll be rolling out throughout this year and I'm going to tell you about the first few just today this one isn't a review in time I will add these features to my full review for you you should be able to get these features right now and here they are now you can actually have folders within folders so just by adding a new folder here you can have more [Music] layers and you can navigate them through with just a folder structure here so that's good that was needed I'm not sure exactly how many layers you can have but as long as you can have at least four I think you'll be all right the next one is Page turns so if I go back to my most recent one here you can actually now go to any page within a notebook from the three dots here go to page and you can type in the page number you want to go to that's good for jumping around I hope that in time you'll actually get a full page overview you know you'll be able to see a thumbnail for each one but for now you can just jump to any particular page maybe you'll even get linking later let's keep our fingers crossed let's keep letting Kindle know the kind of features we want and hope that they'll add them over this year maybe even the ability to make a full table of contents would be really good on this device and lastly and this is the biggest one is the different pen tools they've added to the device so here they all are you've got the pen which is the one that we had before essentially this is the a little bit pressure sensitive but not very pressure sensitive pen tool and you've got still the five different thicknesses you've then got the fountain pen and this has a calligraphic nib so it has the two different fitnesses based on direction of the stroke many of you will like writing in that I'm sure then you've got the marker and this is like another pen but this is more pressure sensitive and you've again got the five different thicknesses of that so this is the very thin kind of maximum pressure and this is the very thick at maximum pressure and lastly and this is the one I'm most excited about probably this is the pencil because the pencil has tilt and pressure which again that that is an excellent feature in the remarkable for instance and now they've added it to this so let's just try and see if I can get a full kind of range [Music] of tones out of that pencil yeah not bad another feature we might like would be options with the Eraser you can rub out selection or a page so okay if I'm yeah you can do a full selection with the Eraser here and you've got different sizes there but by default this is just a simple area so you probably use that for selection and you use the rear for just an area the pencil yes I'm quite excited by that that's what I wanted to see them bring I want to see all devices essentially bringing a pencil tool and using all of the Wacom EMR functionality to be able to actually get that full range of not just tone not just thickness but also using the Tilt as well to make those controls fantastic [Music] so that's all the new features as well as I said in time I will go back to my full review and actually update that based on these new updates it's good this is a good news story really because we've said that the Kindles scribe is in need of updates and here they are with those updates at least this is some glaring emissions solved this time like the page navigation like the folders and like the lack of extra pen tools that's great news we need more let's hope for more let's hope this just means that they're listening to us the people who make these types of videos and also of course you guys in the comments so why not in the comments let me know what feature you would like to see on the Kindle scribe next things that I would certainly like to see straight off the bat would be proper thinking with the cloud that I can actually get access to my notebooks elsewhere and the notes that I make on the actual books cuz I'm really enjoying reading and making notes on this using the Highlight function to make notes I am really enjoying that but I want to be able to see these handwritten notes I want to be able to see them anywhere on a computer or on my phone or on another Kindle device I know I can't write on a different Kindle device but I want to be able to at least access those notes so yes please Kindle and secondly we would love to see the fa Microsoft Office integration which I think could make this a go-to device for lots of professional people fingers crossed for that so just in the way of evaluation and being really fair I have to say that I actually lost a notebook on this device it vanished and I couldn't get it back from anywhere and that's the type of thing that could be solved by this cloud backup that I'm talking about however this is something that's already been reported by goody reader did an article on it and also I asked Kindle about that and they did say that that's a bug that they know about now and that has been fixed in this latest update so we shouldn't have that problem it seemed to be an occasional bug very rare just with going into airplane mode so let's hope that's solved now because losing documents is actually unforgivable so okay let me know in the comments what updates you want to see onto the Kindle scribe this is just a start and let's hope they're bring in more throughout this year the pencil tool is excellent although all of those updates really come into the category of things that we would have expected to see on the device straight away things like folders that that had to be announced in a big update like that was a bit embarrassing for Kindle but they didn't just stop there and the Kindle did become one of my favorite places for drawing and I've done some really nice artwork on it we're still waiting though for layers to come to the Kindle I'm excited for the future of drawing on the ink but nobody's really cracked it yet as being a perfect digital analog Sketchbook drawing on the Kindle scribe can it challenge the remarkable that's definitely my favorite iink tablet for drawing on and well I'll I'll do a longer comparison between the two but given these latest pen updates and now you got pencil with tilt can it actually come close to the excellent experience of drawing on the remarkable this is my first go of drawing with that [Music] pencil [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] [Music] oh [Music] my first thoughts are that it needs Zoom it needs to have layers and it needs to have export options cuz on the remarkable World those are all there you need to have better control over the back eraser to make it act like you want it to act although it does do quite a nice job of blending once it's gone through its little process but it was a good drawing experience even with the limited penals so for instance I draw these and it gives it quite a nice effect with just the with using the highlighter and the original pen to give you that sort of two tone but of course it was quite limited but now adding that pencil in and if they can give you layers then you could actually get some really good options with this because the pen latency on the Kindle scrip is fantastic and the screen feel and the screen brightness is wonderful the screen contrast I should say is wonderful it's a really really nice screen 300 dot per inch it could become the drawing King still needs a few more features though so fingers crossed for them in the next set of updates over its lifespan so far I would say that my viewpoint on the Kindle scribe has changed and I think for a balance of price and functionality actually there's a lot to be said for the Kindle it fits somewhere and it's frequently in my top 10 now you should check out those videos I was excited enough at this point to actually go ahead and make a seven things that I love about the Kindles scribe so here I think are seven of the best things that you get currently with the Kindle scribe these are seven great things about the Kindle scribe the screen the screen the screen the screen the screen Kindle unlimited and the screen there we go okay I'm only joking but the first thing is the screen this is a 300. perin the 300 do perin screen is fantastic it is currently the only way you can get this resolution of screen on this size of device and aside from that it's clear it's white it feels good and it has a great even back lighting it's fantastic it looks good with the lights right off and it looks good at full brightness or somewhere in between you can also have very warm light or very cold light depending on your favorite option and you can actually schedule that to change at night time fantastic the second one is the highlight button now why don't all Wacom enabled devices have this I don't know because the Kindle scribe has a highlight button and an eraser on the back so you have essentially three types of input you have just normal writing input with not pressing anything you have the highlight button input and you have an erase button so you can actually erase areas of the screen just with the back of the pen this is fantastic why don't all devices make use of the three types of input that Wacom EMR can clearly handle the third one is the library the Kindle library is absolutely fantastic and I'm going to point out that I think that Kindle unlimited is really great value what I'm really enjoying at the minute is the moment I finish a book I get recommended loads from Kindle unlimited and I can pick something without any extra cost I know I've already paid for that and it's not cheap they even wrote to me that they're increasing the price of it but I still think it's good value the nice thing is that I don't feel that I need to finish a certain book because if I've picked out of the Kindle unlimited library then I can go ahead and take it or leave it essentially if I don't like it after the first few pages then I can just leave it and move onto something else without feeling that I've shelled out any extra cash for that I really like this the library is massive and the next thing is actually the popular highlights and X-ray and it's only really possible with something with as wide and as popular a library as Kindle so when we go into any book at all long as they have enabled it doesn't have x-ray on this one doesn't have popular highlights on this one so as long as they've enabled it then X-ray and popular high rights means that you can you can get to the best bits you can get to the bits that people have found to be really crucial really important and you can get there really quickly so you get this overview of the parts of the book that other people have found most useful the of course that's not the only way to read and I wouldn't recommend it being the main way to read but if you're not sure whether you're going to actually use a book then popular highlights and x-ray are a really good way to sort of scan and find information quickly I have found myself using this really regularly when I'm not sure if I'm going to really love a book and I'm not sure if I'm going to read it cover to cover I go in there and I read it by just going through the popular highlights often I find that actually something in that book speaks to me and I do want to sit and read it entirely it's a good way to try before you buy and it's a good way to get out some key information without committing to the whole book The Pen latency this has been documented really well in Voyer videos and the pen latency is actually the fastest of the whole bunch of the ink tablets are out there right now it's fantastic I do think that we talk about pen latency a little bit too often with these things you need it to be a certain level where you don't notice it and then from then on it's fine essentially so all of the devices that're in the kind of 20 millisecond ballpark you're not really going to notice it I just point this out you're watching this video at 25 frames per second 25 frames per second is 40 millisecs yes it is 25 frames per second is 40 milliseconds and if you don't really notice the video changing from one frame to the next then you won't notice pen latency particularly anything below that 40 millisecond Mark which that was the latency on the original remarkable generally I find that pen latency is never a problem however ever this is the best and certainly you are never going to be looking at this thinking to yourself wow that's slow because the pen latency is lightning so if you like a 50 Fram per second video that's how smooth this would be when I've done a sort of comparison using 25 frames per second video You don't notice any difference between one device or the other as long as they're below that 40 millisecond Mark number six is the startup time now this is in its kind of sleep mode which it consumes essentially zero power and it startup is lightning fast the this is just from the standby mode it does go into a deeper sleep in which case it starts up slightly longer than that but it's still very very quick there isn't much time where you having a kind of delay and thinking gosh I needed to write something down or I want to start reading and you're actually waiting for it to start the startup time is really really good I could lump in there the battery life actually after some initial hiccups the battery life is really quite good as well with this device and then lastly number seven the size I think this is the best Kindle and if anyone wants to know which Kindle I recommend they buy it is this one this is fine if you are reading on a desk and you're using it for writing it's the best size if you're interested in Reading More academic types of books which as you can see are the types of books I read on it if you're reading for pleasure you're reading fiction then maybe you should go with a device like the paper white which is more the size of an ordinary paperback book and I do agree with that I mean look how quick this startup time is on Kindle I haven't opened this for uh a week because I've been away and left this at home I think this is the size of device that I would like for reading any of this type of book that I do read on here the more professional literature around schools and around building a business on social media which is obviously something I'm interested in and for me it's really useful to be able to read to make notes on the book so as you can see in this book if I go to some of my highlights I've been able to make notes with the pen which I can export all of these and send them to email it does need a better way to sync to the cloud so I can get hold of those notes on any computer that I'm on or any tablet or even on my phone as well it really needs that update as soon as possible please Kindle but at the moment if you're reading this type of book this type of more academic literature then certainly this larger size you will get along really well with it this will be for your novels this smaller paper white size I watched the Ali abdal video where he reviewed the Kindle scribe and he talked about actually the paper white size you can hold in one hand and you can flip forward pages and he talked about actually reading on the tube so any of those situations where you want to hold a book in one hand and and leisurely read then still go to paper white but if you want the larger size for more academic text and you want the Kindle scribe you want the ability to write on the screen and make your own notes then this is the right size for you this A5 size is the size for sitting up in bed or lounging about on the sofa and for working here at a desk for your notebook and for your academic reading this is a great size for onehanded laying back in bed then it is a bit too much and you end up having to kind of balance it it's also quite slippery so I do recommend looking at getting a case so that uh holding it is a bit easier one-handed it is a bit of a heavy chunk and although they have given you that excellent bezel on the side to hold it I would still suggest that it is a a bit large for one-handed reading go with something smaller so there we are seven great things about the Kindle scrip despite my damning initial reviews of it I am starting to really like using this for these certain tasks it hasn't become my notepad it hasn't replaced my notebook it might become more like my notepad later if they make better updates to it I hope that those will be along soon but I am in honesty really starting to enjoy using this as a reader and for any of those things where you add notes with the reader I'm starting to really like it I'm not saying that it's the best for that yet it has good scores it is the best reader out of the whole bunch of yank tablets that I've tried whether it is going to become the best note taking device or have other apps and links to other Cloud kind of storage later let's wait and see recently I took this away on holiday as a sort of travel combination and I would have thought that I would have taken the paper wi but actually I chose to take this with a Nova air because that smaller device will still allow me the Android features that I really like using on E screens honestly there's a kind of debate I think to be had and I would make a video what's the best kind of travel do you want to travel with the smaller Kindle and the bigger books device or the bigger Kindle and the smaller books device I think that's a good combination for traveling thanks very much for watching the video if you did like it leave a thumbs up so I am recommending the Kindles scribe to you for those two reasons reading and the price there are some really good features about it and if you look down that list of seven things you think Yep they're for me well they are good and they are good compared to those same things in other eing tablets there are benefits to the Kindles scribe but is it the best for being your reader is it the best place for learning well that was the question I was really asking now does it have any claim to be the best at anything that does well on eink let's find out I just like learning and this is the best eink platform for reading to learn you couple the Kindle scribe with Kindle unlimited you're away on a world of knowledge it is good value too the device itself can be had for around £300 which is really good value for an incredible earing screen with a whack on Pen stylus it is always trying to sell you things of course because well even though it doesn't come with ads on the homepage is a constant barrage of new things to read which is a good thing but also is somewhere else that you're going to spend some more money I haven't read this book so I don't know why it's recommended me any of this Kindle unlimited is an absolute wealth of reading which I'm certainly satis IED by and you know learning is the best way out of a funk and if you're not feeling great about your professional life and work then there's nothing better than going back armed with a new strategy a new piece of learning that makes you feel rejuvenated so that's my recommend to you if you are having a bad time at work which we all get from time to time actually going back and doing a bit of professional learning giving yourself new skills and new ideas to bring with you into work and give you a a new enthusiasm for work so I just got back into Kindle reading recently in a hope that it would just kind of wean me away from my Reliance on Audible books and although audible books in the commute are really good and it's a great way to consume content the actual physical active reading especially whilst making notes is an incredibly powerful way to learn new things and you know it worked I'm reading much more now in my original review for the Kindle I stated it like this and I think it is accurate this is currently the best Kindle but it's also the best e in tablet purely as a reader that is accurate it does Excel amongst its competitors for that reading use case and as long as you pair it with Kindle unlimited and there is a link in the description for that then you do have a truly unlimited source of things to read now you've also got the option to use it as your notebook and this for me is the main use case for ink tablets for notes and for planning importantly this is how I use it for planning I make a custom template which I've built in word and it has 2 weeks of my timetable and it's also hyperlink through so I can skip about to any page to any day just from any other page but there are loads of PDF planners available on Etsy or my daily organizer as a good shout from via my deep guide and that has a whole Year's worth of planning all hyperlink together so that you can plan at the annual level or monthly level or quarterly level or weekly or daily level as well it's a great product that he's made I'll just say before I go on there is some slight weird discrepancy with the Kindles scribe and PDFs and it does somewhat Jump Around the hyperlinks they're not always in exactly the same place although this one does seem to have come perfectly fine and it is going to the right day for each one so that is absolutely fine on this one and that's because if you really want to write on a PDF what you have to do is send it up to the cloud and you have to import it that way rather than just plug it in and send it via cable to from your computer that's a bit frustrating and what it actually does is it actually encodes it as its own file format own kind of Kindle PDF file format if you like but then you can write on it and it works perfectly well if this is really appealing to you then then well you don't really need my planner it's just a table with my timetable in it you can actually go ahead and get any PDF planner that you like and you could maybe edit that itself to make it more your own planner for me this works really well because it's just kind of one document for each fortnite and I don't then have a massive document which maybe might take a bit of time to load eventually or might get a little bit buggy and I'm not trusting my entire Year's planning to one document and that's something I think you should think about before you go ahead and make a planner here but maybe if you did find a PD F planet that you like then maybe having a way to actually edit it to make it your own you might be like the format you may be like the style but you want to actually put your own timetable into it let's talk more about reading though because that is the main use of this device the Kindles scribe is a really desirable option for anyone who's read and learn first and productivity kind of second priority if that's the way your professional brain is organized and I must say that I'm becoming more inclined towards that attitude this habit of sharpening the saw which is one of Steven K's seven habit and he talks about it as being one of the most important habit of Highly Successful People but that's one that we forget when we get trapped in this cycle of toxic productivity always having to put things out there always having to do more when you feed your head when you build your skills then that's when you improve as a professional and if you think back I bet that you were pretty motivated about your job at one point and that probably coincided when you were having to learn how to be good at it hopefully you still are motivated of course if you're not then it might be because you feel kind of stuck maybe you feel it's easy easy maybe your skills match too closely the challenges and you aren't getting pushed by it when it was a challenge you were Keen but now it's old and you're older too but by reading and learning you find out what new ideas there are out there what ideas can you get your professional brain stuck into and what new learning will you do that will actually feed your brain and you walk back into that office with that kind of swagger that you used to have I'm just finding this type of device to be pretty spot- on for that type of reading and you can see in my library more professional type of reading reading of course I've got my kids books in here as well un Audible for the car and for her on her Kindle I didn't get this book I have no idea about the song of the forever Reigns but must have accidentally clicked on that at one point you see his things like business of stories for this YouTube channel you can see his Ros and shines you can see his retrieval practice lesson planning how to write clearly all the kind of learning things that's what I like Kindle for the nice thing is that when you read this type of book and when you habitually actually do the tasks that they kind of give you at the end of it questions they've asked you and you make notes as you go that you apply that reading straight into your own situation so this is about brand stories and as I'm completing these tasks I'm applying it to my own context thinking about how these ideas fit in my own YouTube channel my own brand if you want now I don't use the sticky note function the sticky note is this thing there been a lot being said I want to actually annotate straight on my Kindle page I don't want to have to go sticky note put a sticky note down don't use this sticky note function because the sticky note just exists this tiny little icon here on the page I use is just highlight so just with a hand select the thing I want then you get the option in the notes of I a handwritten note or a text note and of course I'm just going handwritten note and then I've got a highlight which is pulled through to the summary at the end want the pencil in this [Music] bit here are my annotations so now I've got the text that highlighted and my handwritten annotation all pulled through into one document that I can now export and I can send it to myself as the PDF which is very nice so for that it's really really good it's not comfortable for reading in bed though it's not the one to go for if you want a evening reader it's not the one to go for probably better to go for the Kindle paper white or something in a smaller Kindle size for that it's too heavy and also too thin so you don't get a comfortable feeling of holding it in one hand I would strongly suggest you're either going to go for a case which is going to give you a little bit more of a kind of bulky feel to it more ergonomic or you're going to make it your desktop reader or or sitting on the sofa is a very nice way to read with it as well not lying back so when you do this when you actually work for a book like this that has these questions got the highlighted text which comes through and you've got your response to that so you get this document which is a bit like question and then your own answer you've got this document where in your reading you have applied this to your own context so lots of people have complained that they really want to write directly into the Kindle book and the margins and I don't mind Kindle's decision to stop you doing that really I don't think it's ideal the way that coobo of that was to actually have a sort of Saved view whichever Zoom you had it on whichever view you had it on and you did your original notes it would remember that when you changed the size of the font and you clicked into the note it just showed you what the page looked like when you made that annotation that works that's absolutely fine Kindle could have included that that would be perfect but they didn't and I'm not too worried about that because this gives you a bit more room in any case to make a sort of Fuller handwritten note and it lives at the right point and you you can see it linked to the Highlight I'm not too worried about that you can annotate directly on their version of PDFs but then you won't be able to add a page or a full page of notes within that PDF anyway in their version of PDFs you can't select text like this and actually write next to it so if you are using this for reading and learning I would expect to use it in this way you make a highlight and you make a handwritten note with it I wouldn't expect to use it in any other way and I wouldn't hold my breath for Kindle to bring that VI updates so I have to say that I am reading much more since I got back into Kindle and it's the Kindle scribe that's done that the Kindle paper white is really nice I do enjoy that as a reader but it is really the kle Scribe as a device which has got me back into reading physically I like that I also do love the link between Kindle unlimited and Audible and I don't mind being in Amazon's ecosystem of books at least Amazon when it started remember was a bookstore there's just so much content to enjoy I asked you on my community tab which one of these libraries was the best and it did did come out in fact that most people found the Kindle library to be the I'm going to try out some other libraries and I'll get back to you on that so let me know if there's a library that you really want to see featured in that Kindle Cobo scribed and Reedley and I'll let you know what I think of all those so the library is good I am a satisfied paying customer for Amazon Kindle unlimited and Audible and well there'll be links for those in the description of course but the Kindle is a place for work that you do have to use workarounds to get the best out of it let me know if you are going to go for this make sure that you are looking out for it on Amazon Prime days and January sales Black Friday sales all of these things summer sales and Amazon because getting one at a low price is a bit of a no-brainer especially if you're just looking for your first fora into eink at this size let me know what you go for and I suggest the next place you watch is this video where I compare the Kindle scribe to all of its main rivals

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Published: Sat Dec 09 2023