From CNET:
Amazon announced a brand-new Kindle last week at its latest hardware event. The Kindle Scribe is more than just an extra-large e-reader. Its 10.2-inch screen is built for handwriting notes. Amazon includes a pen that doesn’t ever need to be charged so you can immediately start scribbling in your books or in its built-in notebook app. It has 300-pixel-per-inch resolution, comes with 35 LED front lights that can be adjusted from cool to warm and starts at $340 for a model with 16GB of storage. The Kindle Scribe will be released on Nov. 30.
The Scribe is Amazon’s first E Ink tablet, but it’s not the only one. These devices, including the Kobo Elipsa and ReMarkable 2, also feature large screens, an included smart pen and gray-scale E Ink displays. Unlike traditional LCD tablets like the Apple iPad or Amazon’s own Kindle Fire, E Ink tablets aren’t capable of browsing the web or playing videos or games (at least, not very well). Instead, their main focus is to bring distraction-free writing and reading to students, professionals and anyone else who loves to write by hand, but wants to ditch the clutter and waste of paper notebooks.
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Amazon says that you’ll be able to write handwritten notes in your books on the Scribe, but unfortunately you won’t be able to write them directly on the page. Instead, you’ll need to write on “sticky notes.”
Not only does this prevent you from scribbling in the margins of books, it also means you’ll need to take a separate action to start writing at all. First you’ll have to tap an on-screen button, which will launch the note. Once you finish writing and close the note, the sticky will be saved but will not leave any markings on the screen. You’ll be able to access your notes by tapping into your “Notes and Highlights” section.
Sticky notes works with all of your Kindle content and will also be available on Microsoft Word documents. The Scribe will let you directly mark up PDFs, but writing in books requires using sticky notes. That could be a tough pill to swallow for those who prefer to see their notes directly next to the text on the screen. All other E Ink tablets I’ve tested let users write directly onto the documents (including some books) on their device, rather than using sticky notes.
Link to the rest at CNET and thanks to F. for the tip.
Thanks for the link. I had seen the pre-announcement, and I’ve always found the idea, umm, remarkable. (Sorry for the pun).
But it is the description in this one that shows how unfriendly it is — launch a cover app over top, save them all separately, no indication on the page that there’s even a sticky? I might as well run a full tablet with dual apps on the screen and pick my best note taker for the right side and my best text viewer for the left side.
Curious to see if others have found the other longer-serving models useful…
I strongly suspect the stickies *do* have an on-screen mark of some kind, just as the existing NOTES feature does. It is probably an evolution of that feature, just recording pen strokes instead of typed text.
https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=11627044011
(No detailed review that I can find. Yet.)
I would be surprised if the stickies don’t work like the current Notes feature: you highlight a text, write a note, and a “footnote” appears at the end of the line you highlighted which will trigger the note for viewing. In that instance, using a pen instead of on-screen typing is less cumbersome. At last it would be for me, if the pen works. That said, I would love it if I could make the proofreader’s marks directly on the text with the pen.
Hopefully a more comprehensive review comes along soon.
Well, you can: if you feed it your file as a PDF.
But that ability is limited in value if you can’t roundtrip the annotated file back to the wordprocessor.
If you don’t mind an LCD screen instead of eink, this can do that job cleanly:
https://www.amazon.com/NEW-Microsoft-Surface-Go-Touch-Screen/dp/B086QRQVD5/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XX8W7DZ261F8&keywords=windows+tablet+pc&qid=1665141404&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI2LjMxIiwicXNhIjoiNS40OCIsInFzcCI6IjMuOTkifQ%3D%3D&refinements=p_85%3A2470955011%2Cp_n_feature_six_browse-bin%3A23942931011&rnid=23942852011&rps=1&s=pc&sprefix=windows+tablet+pc%2Caps%2C372&sr=1-1
Word supports ink natively and multiple user anotations.
And, oddly, this particular deal is cheaper than the SCRIBE.
My own personal practice is to use my Paperwhite (about 7 years old) for long-form reading.
I use my iPad for reading news items, short form, etc. If I want to keep a story, page, etc., I use either Google Keep if the link is all I need or Evernote to grab all the content if I have concerns about being able to access content into the more distant future.