![]() Now today, May 22, the Scribe is basically getting everything else I highlighted as a missing feature in my review. Then in April, Amazon made good on an early promise by adding the ability to send documents from Microsoft Word to the Kindle Scribe and introducing more flexibility with notebooks (the ability to add and rearrange pages). Basics that really should have been there from the start. The first update Amazon rolled out in February addressed those immediate concerns, adding more brushes like a pencil, marker, and fountain pen and, critically, the ability to make folders inside other folders and move content between them. For a flagship device from Amazon that cost $340, the Kindle Scribe was surprisingly, maybe even concerningly, underbaked. I mean, there was only one brush type at launch and a highlighter. ![]() The launch version of Kindle Scribe could really only write and make folders. The Scribe can convert handwriting to text, finally. The company has repeatedly updated the Scribe over the months, adding new features that bring it closer to the abilities of its competitors, and that have made it, at least for me, a device I turn to daily. Well, Amazon didn’t abandon its tablet in that disappointingly basic form. To put it another way, it was decidedly underpowered when compared to something like the reMarkable 2, which is both more open and capable when it comes to creating notes and documents and getting them off the device. Mainly, it seemed much better at selling and reading books (the basic Kindle business) than the writing and drawing that was supposed to be the other half of the Scribe equation. The real issue with the device, when I reviewed it last December, was its software. And the company spared no expense on the Scribe’s hardware, even securing a beautiful, high resolution (300 PPI) E Ink display that still hasn’t shown up on any competing e-readers. Notetaking tablets with E Ink screens are niche, but they’re a product that could really make a lot of people happy delivered at Amazon’s scale. Amazon had the right idea with the Kindle Scribe.
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