Kindle Scribe Review - Student Perspective!

hey internet Harris here uh it's been over a year since my last upload past 100,000 subs thank you all very much for watching and continuing to watch okay over the years I've become a bigger and bigger fan of smaller and smaller devices from the 14-in MacBook Pro over the 16-in MacBook Pro the iPhone 13 mini over the 13 Pro even down to my Kindle I've always loved my Kindle paper white and in fact this might be my favorite device period right now but that's for another video which hopefully will be soon so I didn't think I would love the Kindle scribe and I wasn't completely wrong but I wasn't completely right either this has been my experience with the Kindle scribe a device I didn't initially love but after one change to it really changed how I used this device for the better let's go ahead and check out the Kindle scribe review okay so right off the bat if you're looking to get this for Christmas and unfortunately it looks like it's too late from Amazon Amon anyway but they're doing some really good sales right now when I bought this it was a lot more expensive than it is now so it actually makes it automatically a more attractive device right now just because of the sales going on so let's get started with that one big change so I actually didn't realize how much I didn't like the design of this device now it is very well built sturdy materials it's slim it's high quality in an objective sense I really like it but I found I just really disliked holding it because it's so thin it's slick on the back it's metal and there's just not a great way to comfortably hold this in my opinion now I haven't seen other reviewers say this so maybe that's just me but at least compared to the Kindle which was smaller lighter more rounded matte texture on the back so much easier to hold I just really disliked holding this without a case now it is perfectly designed if you're writing on a flat surface because of the little bumps on the back it's great for that but I found that when I put a case on it it made it night and day better not just for grip purposes and now had something to hold on to but also I can put it up in a stand when I'm reading on my desk so I don't have to prop it up on another book I found that this just made it perfect so much better um than using the Kindle without it you may disagree and this is not sponsored so feel free to do what you want but I found that a case was a very helpful addition to my Kindle it also keeps the pen locked in cuz that would always fall off my backpack which is very frustrating now un fortunately this does mean that if you get a case that just adds more to the cost I think this one was only 20 bucks when I got it and I really dig the uh Vincent Van Go Star night design on it um I think Amazon's is closer to $50 or $60 if you buy their case now I just want to give you a size reference of this Kindle so this is the Kindle scribe here is a standard composition notebook here's an iPad Pro 11 you can see that size difference and I'll stack on an iPad mini and then the Kindle paper white and then you can see the iPad Pro 12 which just dwarfs all of these okay secondly the stylus so I bought the base model the cheapest one because when I got this over a year ago I figured I was just going to test it out didn't really want the more expensive pen I do regret that now because if you're going to be using this for writing a lot you're probably going to want the Eraser and the extra side button to customize to an eraser or whatever you want to customize it to um I didn't now on the bright side I learned that you can use a lot of other stylus options some of which um you can just order from Amazon for other devices I have a couple good options here but I also learned that you can just use something like an S Pen from a Galaxy Tab and it even has a little side button that you can use so I've been using this with it with a side button that I already had laying around no issues or other thirdparty ones so that's pretty handy just a nice little tip you can use other stylight if you don't want to use Amazon's or if you don't want to pay the $60 to upgrade to the fancier pen after you purchase it or the $30 just to upgrade when you're buying it so I've got four different stylus options here this is Amazon's basic one their cheapest option and this is really good but it's lacking the button or the Eraser so I have to go in here every time if I want to highlight or erase then there's something like this stayed Norris digital jumbo pen which has a more rubbery tip so it gives you a really satisfying rubbery feel more of a grip in the pen and then the Eraser works really nicely as well this won't fit inside the pen slot on that case I showed you earlier so just heads up there then there's this third party one that has both the button and the pen function so I'll show you this one this one has a much harder tip and if you press down with the minimum pressure it actually won't show up so you have to press in a little bit to show up so this has a harder tip but it has the highlighter function and then the Eraser as well I don't really love this one but it does have kind of the best of all three worlds and I believe it's only 30 bucks and then here's Samsung's S Pen which is a really nice in between option as well and it does have the side button it just lacks the Eraser and it still sticks to the Kindle either way the pen experience is surprisingly really nice on this device it has probably the best writing experience on any device I've used and by any device I've used I pretty much mean versus an iPad or a Galaxy tab so not a whole lot of comparison I haven't used a remarkable but this is definitely the closest I've found with a digital device to using or comparing it to pen on paper great texture great sound really high quality experience pretty pretty low latency as well and just a really well-built pen again I would recommend upgrading to the premium model or just getting a third party stylus option if you do intend on writing a lot I think that's just overall going to make a big difference and as it stands it's just not very elegant to go and tap the Eraser button on the E in display which has a little bit of lag if you're switching back and forth a lot now in terms of the notebooks on this there's a dedicated tab at the bottom of the device for notebooks and no other Kindle has this feature so that's unique to this and it works pretty well they have some preset templates that you can choose from and it doesn't seem like you can import your own templates into this although of course you could import a PDF and just reuse that um as a template if you wanted to do that now Amazon has thankfully upgraded the options over the past few software upgrades so there's now four different very nice options options for writing as well as two of the options having pressure sensitivity with your stylus which is really nice I think it's just a great experience overall doesn't have all the bells and whistles of something like an iPad you're not going to be copying and pasting stickers and images and pulling things from websites all this kind of stuff that you could do from an iPad but this is purposefully in between an iPad and pencil and paper because Amazon did add thankfully the selection option which I didn't have earlier so you can drag around text and rearrange and resize things even if it is a little bit clunky it's still a little bit better than pen and paper in that regard there's other basic functions with the notebooks such as folders and subfolders so you can organize and you can now rearrange your pages within the notebook however one thing that's really severely lacking on this device is the ability to multi- select items in your collection so say you had four different articles that you wanted to move into a folder you can't select multiple of them you have to go through the kind of lengthy annoying process of manually selecting moving selecting your folder and selecting done Amazon please add a feature where you can multi select notes and files and books and audiobooks to move them to collections or notebooks um that'd be very handy now one big limitation with this is that there's no multitasking can't have two notes up side by side to compare but also not even a PDF or a book and a note open at the same time which is a bit of a limiting feature even on a display that is 10.2 in which is plenty big to do this you can do this pretty comfortably on an iPad with the 8 in screen so there might be too much horsepower or more bells and whistles than a Kindle should have or at least that Amazon decided it should have but hopefully they add this in the future so you can have a book up on one half and on the other half you can be taking notes or comparing your notes or something like that now in terms of book reading experience um the stylus pretty much just works as your finger within a book now if it's a PDF different the pen acts as a pen but for a book it's a little bit misleading because while you can take handwritten notes you have to do a sticky note which is fine but just is not at all the book experience of a physical book or you can see um your handwriting and kind of remember where it was as you reading and thinking back to that book so that's a bit misleading Amazon has come out with a few um books that you can actually write on now but these are pretty much just PDFs they're um pretty static documents and templates that you can write on now if you do have a PDF you can use interactive PDF so if you have some type of um journal or planner that you can interact to different months and days and click this does support that which is a pretty sweet feature now there are still some things about this that are a bit confusing one there's no auto rotate so while you can now rotate this horizontally which I can't believe you couldn't do that before but you have to manually go back back and forth for every single book there's no auto rotate or the ability to turn auto rotate on or off so if you have a book that is landcape or maybe you have kind of the two column view of something that you've sent to your Kindle you're going to have to manually rotate and un rotate uh every single time that you want to switch which is very annoying um and I wish that there was some type of auto rotate now you can switch you know 180 degrees but you can't switch 90° with what you're reading now for me in a dream world this would also have a camera just a basic camera just so I can scan things into the Kindle that would be amazing um but the send to Kindle is also very easy so you can do that from your phone from your Mac or your computer um or you can email to Kindle I've used that several times too just setting a document to your personal email Kindle account um or just using the website just I have it bookmarked send a Kindle I can load up an Epub or a PDF or a doc um or whatever I need to send over and that works very well and usually will show up on the Kindle within a couple minutes and that works great and then of course you have all the other Kindle benefits battery amazing USBC very nice to have and it's just so nice to use in direct sunlight um sometimes direct sunlight and and bright lights can actually kind of overpower the display and create some bad glare but you just angle it a little bit and it's a really pleasant experience reading on this with very few distractions so at the end of the day I specifically like this Kindle because for my classes where I get a lot of PDFs and a lot of documents I don't have to print them all out and just take them more paper and space I can send them on here and I can still read them and annotate them without any issues with the case it becomes significantly more comfortable to hold and I can just go off with my audiobooks and regular ebooks and I send lots of Articles and um all types of documents to this that I'm reading all the time which is just fantastic and it's a good way of getting away from an iPad ad away from a phone away from computer and still getting work done classwork reading and writing now if I wasn't in classes wasn't reading materials for class I'd probably just stick with this Kindle because I can throw it in my winter coat or sometimes even a back pocket and certainly any bag that I have it's a little bit less obtrusive when traveling reading on the train with one hand all these type of things that I love about that Kindle but for more stationary purposes we're throwing in a backpack which the case also helps for this Kindel scribe is a really really good device keep in mind it's not going to be able to do everything an iPad can certainly but has all the benefits of a Kindle plus a really nice writing experience and with the current sales that Amazon's doing I think it is a worthwhile device however at the normal price plus um the premium pen and plus a case it's starting to get probably a little bit more expensive than I would recommend let me know your thoughts and thanks very much for watching

Channel: Harris Craycraft

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Length: 12min 53sec (773 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 18 2023