Amazon offers the ultimate Kindle upgrade for the cheapest ever price
Amazon recently released the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, the latest version of its largest e-reader that comes with a stylus. Its 11-inch colour screen renders e-books as big as possible, but also has a function to let you make notes in books, or create whole notebooks for personal or work use.
It could be a device you’d get a lot of use out of, but the catch is it costs from an eye-watering £569.99, hundreds more than the cheapest iPad. If you like what the Scribe offers but want to spend a lot less, luckily there is a way to do so.
Amazon has discounted its first-generation Kindle Scribe to £199.99, a massive 39 percent saving on its usual £329.99 RRP. It’ll also save you a whole £370 if you go for it instead of the Colorsoft model.
£199.99 is also the cheapest the Kindle Scribe has ever sold for according to Amazon price tracker tool Camelcamelcamel.
I reviewed the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, and I also reviewed the first-gen Kindle Scribe when it was released in 2022. To be completely honest, I don’t think many people need to spend the sky high price for the newer model if they want a large screen Kindle and pen. The 2022 Scribe will do most of what the Colorsoft can do - bar display pictures in colour - for a fraction of the price.
The Scribe on sale comes with 16GB storage, enough for hundreds of Kindle books and your own created notebooks. It has a 10.2-inch screen with a symmetrical design that has a place for your thumb to rest if you’re holding it one hand, whether you’re left or right handed (you can flip it round).
Despite being larger than other Kindles, the screen’s resolution is still the same 300 pixels per inch, so things look just as sharp. The device comes with Amazon’s Basic Pen, so you don’t have to pay extra to scrawl notes in the margins of books or fire up your digital notebooks for work or to do a bit of journaling at the end of the day.
The older Scribe has also received tons of software updates since launch, so it’s practically identical to use day to day to new Scribes. Writing onto a page of an e-book creates a box for your writing to sit in, and the text morphs around it. Unlike rival Kobo, you can’t write directly onto the page as you would a real book.
You can also view all your annotations in the Kindle app for iOS, Android or Fire OS, so your notes are with you even if your Kindle Scribe isn’t.
Amazon also offers a few AI tools, such as handwriting to text conversion and a feature that can summarise all your written notes into bullet points.
And in case you were wondering, unlike competing e-paper tablets like the reMarkable Paper Pure, the Kindle Scribe 2022 has a frontlit screen, so you can read and scrawl in the dark. You can also link the software to your Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive, letting you view documents and even mark up PDFs or Word documents.
With weeks-long battery life too, the cheaper Kindle Scribe could be the best all-in-one E Ink device for your reading writing needs.
Daily Express
