The all-new Kindle Scribe's makers say it includes customer-favourite features beloved not just for reading but now for writing too. These include an adjustable warm light, auto-adjusting front light, and USB-C charging, with a battery designed to last for weeks and weeks.
Amazon has announced the new Kindle Scribe - the next generation of Kindle that unites reading with writing - is now available to New Zealand customers. The new Kindle Scribe features the world’s first 10.2-inch, 300 pixels per inch (PPI), 'Paperwhite' display, and a companion pen that, says the company, never needs charging. As with previous models, the front-lit and glare-free display feels like reading - and now writing - on paper, with crisp text and ample space for larger fonts, images, charts, and documents. No longer just for reading, Amazon says the new Kindle Scribe has been specifically designed for reading and notetaking in millions of books, adding notes to documents, journaling, and more.
Just 5.8 mm thin, the Kindle Scribe comes with a Basic or Premium pen option, with a number of different brush types. Amazon says both pens deliver incredible precision, feel natural in-hand, and magnetically attach to the side of the device. They also support a variety of line widths, a highlighter tool, eraser tools, and an undo tool - all easily accessible in the on-display writing menu. The Premium Pen also includes a dedicated eraser on top and a customisable shortcut button, enabling the pen to function as an eraser or highlighter, or to open a new sticky note when the button is pressed.
Digital sticky notes on Kindle Scribe allow the user to easily add handwritten notes to millions of books in the Kindle Store, with all notes and highlights automatically organised in one place to keep pages clutter-free. Notes can be taken using a variety of templates, including to-do lists for tracking tasks and lined paper for meeting notes, all organised within folders as per the users wishes. For ease of navigation, brand new features allow users to view nine notebook pages at once, with the ability to rearrange as needed.
For PDFs, Kindle users can also now increase and decrease the contrast of their documents when reading and annotating. And with the Send-to-Kindle feature, the user can import personal documents from a computer or phone to Kindle Scribe and write directly on PDF documents. Handwritten sticky notes can also be imported from Microsoft Word documents, web articles, and other document formats with adjustable font sizes and layout.
All notebooks are automatically saved and backed up to the cloud for free, and are accessible through the Kindle app.
As with all Kindle e-readers, the new Kindle Scribe comes with instant access to the Kindle Store.
Featuring a massive, unmatched library of content, the Kindle Stores worldwide offer over 13 million titles, including millions of non-fiction books. Amazon has revealed that the Kindle Scribe will also come with a three-month Kindle Unlimited membership, providing Kiwis with access to an ever-growing selection of over three million eBooks, including fiction titles, short reads, and more. Amazon Prime members can also read from a rotating selection of over a thousand titles found in the Kindle Store, at no additional cost to their Prime membership.