Is the Kindle Scribe worth it?

[@Gubby-Man]

I thought it was a re-upload at first. Turns out this is Kindle and not Boox, James and not Riley.

[@myaccount__7269]

James should do these tablets more. Riley is so clueless with them

[@tabeebrahman4843]

Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two lineups of lmg hosts and E ink products. They’re the same

[@learninglanguages744]

@@tabeebrahman4843 The software is very different though

[@jcfawerd]

@@myaccount__7269 Riley is clueless with a lot of things

[@MithagDragon]

Same here

[@genshi233]

James is more excited to read the sponsor than to talk about the kindle

[@itemushmush]

ye it really didnt seem like he wanted to make this review

[@ss_avsmt]

This is no longer a review channel. This is just us watching who'll never buy it. They feed us these like mindless television that no one watches but runs in the background.

[@griffin9649]

agreed, felt super low effort, very dissapointing

[@TwistedSoul2002]

Thought I was the only one… this was painful to watch.

[@S41L0R]

honestly i don't really care about his enthusiasm. I don't expect him to be excited about every product he reviews; its his job. I just watch it because it's interesting.

[@azimpetra]

I have a feeling LMG is reading my search history. 2 e-ink vids within a week

[@debemdeboas]

same here!!! maybe the algorithm is smiling upon e-ink?

[@padraigmurphy7739]

I got a finance video about investing in the eink company to not aswell.

[@Neoxon619]

This is the second e-ink device featured on the channel this week. Not that I’m complaining, but does someone at LMG have a very specific Christmas wish list?

[@dstinnettmusic]

I think a lot of tech people want to see e-ink improve and become a viable display option. Great for a second or third display just for code, textbooks, notes, research material or other text and static image applications..especially color e-ink. If video playback ever became viable then that is almost magic. Like a Harry Potter magical book object It’s one of those things where when you get it in front of your eyeballs, it is immediately clear why it is better at the specific application it is designed for.

[@t0mmy44h]

E ink devices tend to be quite high value for their price

[@jcfawerd]

@@t0mmy44h it is a monoploy and is only supplied by a Taiwanese company

[@mrgruco]

Atleast it's not another keyboard review.

[@rikaze]

Could be? But also I think eink has serendipitously reached a level where the refresh rates are close to acceptable for *some* to consider replacing their phones or analogue notebooks. And HD color einks are also coming out soon. Could be a coordinated effort within the eink industry widen the market. Eink is only prohibitively expensive because the market is small. If more people get into it, the prices will come down. Perhaps they're at the point where they need more market share to progress the technology meaningfully

[@BobSentell]

Flipping the scene upside down for throwing away the instructions for Australian customers made me snort my drink. It's the little things the editor does...

[@𩛗]

Liked your comment, let's see if it becomes a top comment with thousands of likes.

[@Turnabout]

James: My wife is the same way. The solution is to put your cereal in a resealable container. Buy like six or something so you can throw one in the dishwasher as soon as it's empty. One of those little life hacks.

[@bobbyhinner3225]

I'm super excited for all the new e-ink things. I love my cheap little Kindle and seeing the technology get more love is awesome

[@MrJest2]

Kid bought me my first Kindle nearly 15 years ago. I expected to hate it, but was hooked inside of an hour. That device lasted me over 10 years before it finally croaked; replaced it with a Paperwhite and I suspect that one should last a decade as well. The e-ink format is definitely better for simply reading books; I hate trying to read on a tablet or phone display. The vastly lower power consumption this display type needs is another huge benefit, and lets you almost ignore the battery level on the things.

[@thesuperzfamilyvlog6607]

I have a 4th gen kindle and it still works great, but I've been looking for a good writing e-ink tablet and it looks like we are nearly there (for what I want) and I'm really excited.

[@randomnintendofan5524]

Just a quick note-I think that the Scribe is able to rotate 90 degrees as well, you just have to manually tell it to do so in settings, and then it will have the same 180-degree rotating behavior, but on a new axis. A little confusing, but I hope this helps someone.

[@pezzmania]

When writing on an e-ink device, you need to ask yourself if it feels like writing on paper. That's the point. You can buy a tablet that does much more, maybe find a paper-like screen protector, but if it doesn't feel like writing on paper it's not a good experience. If you tell people an Android or Apple tablet can do so much more, you're missing the point of this product.

[@aussiegruber86]

It’s funny you made this comment, I have been writing on an iPad now for 12months and i love the feeling of not writing on paper it is so much smoother and faster than paper.

[@pezzmania]

@@aussiegruber86 Smoother and faster isn't a good feeling for those who like the control of paper. Creates sloppy looking art that needs to be constantly edited.

[@taggie_]

​@aussiegruber86 Your notes probably aren't important if that's the case. Psych or English major? Or using it for 'work'?

[@Robeeh2]

As a massive Amazon Kindle fan, it's the Kindle I've always been hoping and waiting for, larger with the facility for taking notes on books. Will appreciate being able to eventually take handwritten notes on word documents too. I would have loved to write directly on books, but I can live with the decision they made. I'm happy to overlook certain quirkes overall.

[@cooltop101]

I preordered the Kindle Scribe and had my hopes up for it. But it dissappointed me so much. I bought a Boox Note Air 2 for only about $50 more (I did get the premium pen + 64GB model so it'll be a bit more compared to the Kindle in this video), and said at the end of 30 days, whichever I liked more I'll keep. The Boox runs as an Android tablet, but just their default note taking app was a lot more powerful than the Scribe's. It didn't even take me a week to declare the Boox a winner because I barely picked up my Scribe over the Boox. Especially when the Boox can even download the Kindle app and read any book on my Scribe

[@Hittsy]

One thing to note about highlighting on and marking up books isn't so much a filesystem issue but a text rendering issue. Most ebooks are reflowable content, in that you can change the font, spacing, margins, etc on the fly. If you were to highlight a passage then adjust the spacing, the device would either have to try stretching or compressing your highlights, or your unchanged highlights might not cover enough/too much.

[@phreakinpher]

99% sure I can highlight text on my iPad, tho. Just have to record the first and last words of the highlight and then it doesn't matter how it's displayed.

[@Hittsy]

@@phreakinpher that's possible already on kindles, you can select text using your finger on the touchscreen and highlight it. The issue is freeform highlighting and drawing... Yeah, you could do something similar checking first and last words, but what about something more esoteric like underlining, or notes written in the margins, bracket symbols around paragraphs, paper correction markings?

[@phreakinpher]

@@Hittsy >If you were to highlight a passage then adjust the spacing is what I was responding to. You can definitely do that. EDIT: You can make notes, too. You link a drawing to a specific passage; done. Apple Books already allows this. EDIT2: Paragraphs are not altered by formatting, either.

[@tams805]

@@phreakinpher On an ePub, not a PDF? If it is, then that certainly isn't *drawing* a highlight, it'll be a pre-determined area that you essentially enable. It is highlighting, but it's not freeform.

True, sad that it cannot do PDF-s either, would be nice.

[@kevinbarry71]

Transfer your cereal to a transparent plastic tub design specifically for that purpose. Solves your problem and keeps things fresh

[@acousticpsychosis]

But then you cant get into an argument, and then make up with happy fun time!

[@TimothyBoyle13]

The issue with marking up e-books is more than just the issue of where to store the data in the filesystem and whether or not to edit the source material. The issue lies with how e-books are displayed on the screen. Unless you are using a PDF, which has its own formatting, there are no pre-defined "pages" in an e-book. Each "page" and "line" of text is determined by the screen size, the text size, the font, etc., and may differ from user to user, or even for the same user from device to device.

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

I appreciate that the charge port is on the side instead of the bottom for the rare time you'd need to charge while reading in bed or something.

[@ericsoto9644]

Kindles already have a screenshot function that isn't advertised. I'd like to see that if you wrote a note, it would make it a screenshot you write on directly that saves in the notes folder. This would mean going back to the page wouldn't show your note, but it could be saved underthe notes and highlights tab. That would theoretically be easy for them to do in a software update.

[@sarkasaa]

James has massive "i really dont wanna do this shit" energy

[@chiodos48]

I love the editing on this one. The James lip lick was pretty funny

[@AhmedSaeed97]

Considering this is way cheaper than the remarkable, I'm excited to see e ink available at a more affordable price point

[@vsmash2]

Interesting how perspectives change. As a leftie James probably did not think about that people don't swipe with heir left thumbs while holding the tablet in the left hand where the wider bezel is.

[@damiengrief]

Seems like a good first attempt but all of Amazon's competitors in this space are way ahead on the note taking side of things. I have a Supernote A5X and I love it. It's amazing for taking notes and has become something I regularly rely on for meetings at work. Great organization tools, lots of template options for paper types, layer support, and a pen that never needs nib changing (ceramic so it never wears down). Personally, I don't really care about having an eReader with my note taking. I'm okay having multiple devices for that. I just want a great digital note taking experience. I'm excited to see where Amazon goes in this space in the future, but I think both the reMarkable 2 and the Supernote devices are the golden standard in this space for now.

[@Hickeroar]

The software updates have made this into a very nice experience now. There's still room to improve, but pretty darn good now.

[@RantKid]

I would've loved this for my masters program. Read a lot of PDFs on my Kindle and the thought of marketing it up with a stylus gets me excited lol yes I'm a nerd

[@CourtNeeSupreme]

What I'm considering it for is writing. Writing novels, short stories, etc. I'm interested in knowing if I write something, can an editable file be sent to word or Google docs. If so, I'm sold. I don't like typing the first drafts of my stories. That's what interests me about this

[@sorsu]

it doesnt. its stuck in amazon ecosystem and would require using whatever kindle stuff they have to access notes. furthermore, it lacks most features like OCR and pressure sensitivity, making it a slog and just not worth it. find a tablet meant for it. Rescribe is one.

[@friedrich1277]

@@sorsu Amazon will release a big software update early this year which add many features to inter access with other eco system

[@_BlackSpectrum]

11:24 it's available on Microsoft edge pdf reader where you can highlight any where in pdf and I don't think so it creates different files but it works there so why not here they should add it!

[@KimTrinhMD]

Great Review. I think the Kindle scribe is definitely worth it! The best-underrated is the lack of distractions! Writing on it feels like paper,

[@davey3765]

Just bought one tonight because I take a lot of engineering notes with a paper book and have LOST books in the past - being able to back notes up and have them all on something tablet size is great. I have a Samsung Galaxy tab and I just HATE writing on glass when writing text - this looks to be a good fix for all the text I write. Plus all the PDF's diagrams I need - great! All in one. It's niche but I have a Super Kindle now!

[@SimonBauer7]

the pen is most likely emr and also doesnt have bluetooth so youd have to be near the screen for it to pick up the field of the tablet and allow it to transmit the button press. sadly the tablet doesnt feature a pen cursor so we dont know where the pick up distance is.

[@RoxasWolfram]

I'm excited to be seeing reviews for e-ink devices, I've been recently looking at e-readers and I've been overwhelmed by how much is just featured by the Kindle and the nook, well I love the size of the nook and the layout from what I've seen I'm not sure I would appreciate the ecosystem being smaller. hope to see more reviews of more devices to explore possibilities outside of those two

[@Crushery]

"for Australian customers" *Amazon:* For you damn Aussies, just flip the Kindle upside down. You can read, right?

[@officialtechified]

6:30 "is that a feature or a bug" funniest shit ive heard all day lol

[@TheDragonHoard_com]

The editor on this video must be my spirit animal

[@MonkRX]

Love James coming on to do some video hosting. Going to need more of this as the TJM podcast winds down.

[@clauslebensart8083]

Love to see e-ink (writing) tablets gaining traction. Would hate to see Amazon get the fruits of this trend, though.

[@AshFrankArt]

Yes! I liked this video purely because James is left handed 🤘

[@DaraulHarris]

Mention the editor in the video description so I can compile a playlist of videos edited like this because it is hilarious

[@DrivenKeys]

I'm very excited to draw on these e-ink tablets. Drawing on an iPad causes the typical eye strain from traditional screens. The is the beginning of e-ink taking over as an artist's tool. In this current generation, this tablet almost replaces a sketchbook. Color shoud be on the way in a few years.

[@rakvian]

E-ink color exists but the saturation is crap, also colored E-ink displays have way less contrast in black and white text or images, hope it gets better soon

[@ThePianist51]

@@rakvianThere is a color technology which color really pops. But the refresh rate sux… 😂

[@MrGamelover23]

@@rakvian I think the evolution of eink is encumbered by legal patents

[@mattc16]

Except it seems the pen for this Kindle is pretty garbage. No pressure sensitivity or tilt recognition.

[@ThePianist51]

@samueljensen Strains our eyes… Not cool, mate. Even as a lawyer my eyes hurt by watching screens 10 hours per day…

[@humancannonball3827]

I’ve been loving my Kindle Scribe over the last 2 weeks or so. Nice to see it get a fair shake here since it is great for reading on even if it’s behind competition in notes. I’ve used it for note taking once so far and it was fine, but should get better with promised updates next year.

[@ronnyreese9718]

I have both the Boox Note Air plus and the Kindle scribe. The kindle scribe screen is far superior to the Boox screens.

[@humancannonball3827]

@@ronnyreese9718 That’s good to know. The Boox devices seem super cool as well but I don’t know why so many reviewers on KZbin have been treating Amazon’s entry into large screen readers as an either/or situation. Like as if because they can’t do everything a Boox tablet can, they’re a poor device overall. I get that if money is tight people will want to choose one device but I don’t think that’s really a valid way to review tech. So many reviews complaining about what this device isn’t and rarely talking about what it is.

[@_Magnuss_]

@@humancannonball3827 it is an e reader with a good Touchscreen for 100$ less then the competition (i don't count the boox note air because its at many points weaker then the kindle for the same price). but for the 100$ less u get a software that isn't capable of running normal android apps so it isn't recommendable for a device that u are using 3+ years. The kindle as an e reader is functioning better (has more features) with kindle books then with other data formats (and drm problems). Because of that most people will buy ebooks from amazon so in 1 year when u are a medium reader u did pay more money on books then the 100$ that u did save upfront.(u can get most ebooks cheaper and legal on other Websites then amazon or free in your online library ). I think when u are buying e a new eink tablet very year or u are using only kindle ebooks even if u have other Options then the kindle scribe is an ok deal for everybody else i cant recommend it but that is only my opinion.

[@humancannonball3827]

@@_Magnuss_ yeah…I had a Kindle Paperwhite first and I buy Kindle books on sale regularly. My library is in the hundreds now so my perspective is a bit skewed in terms of available books.

[@mojolotz]

Shout out to the editor. Comedic timing game was on fire.

[@t0mmy44h]

Whoever edited in the close up of James licking his lips at the start... Well done

[@grahambinoreviews]

"..Or girths if you will." That and the Aussie reference got me.

[@Girvo747]

My Boox Note 2 does basically every feature you tried that this is missing haha. Mark up any PDF, rotate any way, etc etc. though it was more expensive sadly.

[@Terrafire123]

4:03 "Right after this message from our sponsor, Squarespace *BEEP* Vessi Footwear".

[@jan-Juta]

Cool that Amazon is expanding into a new segment, hopefully they'll help drive some more competition in the space even if at the moment they're very behind the curve in functionality.

[@i.lostblur]

who edited this one? i loved all the little graphical and audio puns complementing the core content.

[@saltysalamander8519]

This was much more informative than the Boox episode

[@SSCEurobeat]

0:57 my man out here with the "original" from tf2 sound effect

[@justinseans]

I thought " it seems like somebody fought for those. They were like you're crazy but we'll let you have this one" was funny. Sounds about right.

[@wburger2178]

The problem with the normal kindle is when reading in bed you invariably fall asleep and slap your face with it. With this kindle you will end up in the ICU!

[@silpheedTandy]

i'm glad to knwo that i'm not the only person in the world who is clumsy when pouring out cereal

[@The_Great_Whodini]

Ive been using my remarkable 2 since it came out pretty much. It has improved a lot with software updates. Lots of features have been added, making it far better for a wider range of uses. That being said- I do not recommend investing in remarkable. Their change to a subscription to get what should be basic functionality is brutal. I would understand if they wanted to charge for just things that require server bandwidth like linking to google drive, but they have put basic features behind the paywall. I was grandfathered in and have been part of the beta program, so I have experienced basically every feature, and every bug, that has come through their device. It is way too easy to lose the pen, and the paywall is unreal. I love the tech, I love the product I have (not having to pay for features), I cant wait to see how far it can go with future iterations, but it is very difficult to recommend the remarkable platform how it is now.

[@ThePieGuy731]

Fellow remarkable user here, they actually reversed a lot of their subscription model. They brought the price down from 8 dollars to 3 and made all features available to everyone. The subscription is purely for cloud storage now.

[@LASoundCrafter]

Does the Remarkable have 300 dpi? The scribe does. Based on previous iterations of kindles, expect a large software update in six months to incorporate many new features.

[@ccarr1025]

I felt like he was talking about my wife when discussing his cereal issues.

[@yensteel]

The lack of handwriting recognition is quite a shame. People would want to write notes in handwriting but have them converted to text. There isn’t autocorrect either, which is weird.

[@Grumbo91]

I enjoyed the editing a lot on this video

[@R3AL-AIM]

Honestly have no personal interest in these devices, but I do find these reviews intriguing. Lol

[@leks85]

When you think that remarkable is too expensive and lacking functionality and then kindle scribe comes up and says: hold my beer.

[@indianboy0453]

I wonder if this is a decent device for students like myself. Someone who reads, but also likes writing digital notes. I suppose Ill still stick with my S6 lite.

[@gustavrsh]

I swear, the S6 lite is the GOAT among students

[@bl00dkillz]

Unless you need extreme batttery life or e-ink, your tab s6 lite or any modern ipad would serve your needs far better for school.

[@eshaanagarwal6081]

The e-ink has very specific advantages that you hav to weight. If you want to go that route I'd recommend checking out a Boox Note Air 2

[@whenhen]

I’m also a student. Not having calculator apps, the ability to easily download pdfs and PowerPoints from the web without a computer, as well as a lack of color makes me stick with my iPad.

[@MrBandorr]

Feels like an E-ink competition going on.

[@kubev]

1:01 - I'm baffled by people who mutilate cereal boxes when opening them. One of my past roommates had a girlfriend who opened cereal boxes in such a way that you'd think a dog had ripped into it or something.

[@FailSonOfAnarchy]

0:45 That's what she said.

[@ShapezPuller64]

Oh my god, this would make reading PDF textbooks *so* much better - hurt my eyes so much as an undergrad trying to push through years of text on traditional monitors.

[@staticvoidmain]

left-handed users. i think one reason that the charfging port is there so it the experience will not be that much different for left handed users.

[@klizzt]

Well, the editor did make me chuckle with the "swipe" cut :-)

[@trunksy]

How do you get notes off of the devices now that Amazon is discontinuing it's Cloud Drive product? This seems like the notes would be stuck on your device and you couldn't interact with it on other devices.

[@Skyflairl2p]

Im confused as to why this doesnt support pressure sensitivity? Limitation of e-ink? (and why would it be) Or is it to cut costs?

[@_MrOcean]

Getting the boox instead, I did consider this but it lacks the features to justify the price.

[@EmceeJoseph]

I love the premise of e-ink but goddamn it if every single device every company puts out doesn't have at least one thing wrong with it

[@codytanksley6673]

Steve Jobs would not have figured that out. He would have yelled at engineers for years until a new file format was created. The issue with what you want (from a technical standpoint) is that the file format probably doesn’t support anything but text and limited CSS and HTML 5 features. When you go into settings and change font size, what happens to your writing? How do you avoid people who write a ton in their books from bulking up their storage with extraneous notes?

[@humberabdulah4733]

the up side down video you got me chuckle

[@ThatSoddingGamer]

Personally, I'm sticking with my Oasis (I think it's a 2017 or 2018 model? Pre-warm light feature anyway), and I'm going to hold off on getting a new one until Kindle finally releases a colour model. Amazon seems to wait for the tech to mature before they release a new device, seeing as how they waited until Remarkable went through two iterations before finally releasing their own writer. So I expect it's at least a few years before we get a colour Kindle. Current colour e-readers have more of a colour comics newsprint type of colour palette, just a bit light and almost watercolour-esque. They colour e-ink is in lower resolution than the greyscale stuff. I think there was another breakthrough in e-ink tech not that long ago? No products available yet, but it's supposed to have a lot more colours than current colour e-ink displays and at higher resolutions, so maybe a couple of years after e-ink displays with that tech come out and we'll see a Kindle Colour.

[@Strawberrymaker]

Yeah EInks Caleido 3 panels came out this year and have pretty good "print" color quality (still a bit less "pop" which is understandable) and, more important compared to older "full color" panels much faster to refresh. I had an early full color panel at work which took like 15-20s for a full refresh and no possibility to make partial refresh.

[@MrJest2]

@@Strawberrymaker Yeah; getting the control of each color particle has got to be tricky. I imagine each type responds to a different charge level, and they'd have to be set in layers.

[@wongobongo]

I've never noticed that James is left handed. Now it's all I can see.

[@robbie99us]

Im really into these devices as a book or notetaking device but damn, I aint spending almost $400 on it

[@ripbozo941]

How are we not considering Remarkable being unusable without a eternal subscription? Yeah sure it seems like a decent deal at face value comparison with the kindle but the kindle doesnt recurrently shake down your pockets . I thought these products were meant to be an evolution of paper lol

[@Njubish]

As a remarkable owner: buy an iPad with a pen

[@kalark]

i love that it has a left handed mode

[@tutacat]

Actually the side charging port is much better if you want to read it in portrait mode, since you can stand it up without breaking the charging cable.

[@fessunreal]

14:42 "Swiper no swiping! Swiper no Swiping! Swiper no Swiping!"

[@doctahp123]

Guys I love the videos but this one is pretty painful. I mean not really understanding the product is one thing, but James doesn't even understand that most wacom pens don't use batteries and haven't for many years. Doesn't seem like he understands anything about the technology or eink. It just seems weird after Riley's review of the Boox Tab Ultra to have this and compare it too a device that is now out of date like the remarkable.

[@martinseal1987]

Merry Christmas James

[@hoofhearted4]

I want a device like this. i like to take hand written notes, but the ability to do so on a tablet is a great logical step, but its still not there to replace handwritten notes. Its nearly as fluid and ofc infinitely more expensive than pen and paper. and i dont read enough where a Kindle is necessary, I still buy my books physically. The Pros dont outweigh the Cons for me yet, but i like the tech and Moores Law, they'll become better and more affordable sooner rather than later.

[@ericyoung3183]

I think it can be a game changer for the readers. I struggle with my kindle and not being able to note on it. Also, the mediatek chip sounds interesting.

[@silentnode946]

Curious to hear your thoughts on the Oasis now. I've had MANY eReaders, and the Oasis is by far the best I've used. It's over-priced for most peoples needs, but can be worth it if you are an avid reader.

[@sijonda]

I'll be tempted to get one when I run out of notepads in my work truck. Lots of paperwork and I really want to move onto digital stuff so I'm not going through so much paper.

[@RamjeProductions]

If only Microsoft would make such a ReMarkable copy-cat so I can sync it with Microsoft OneNote...

[@GilbertoLopez-od9ij]

You can highlight text in your electronic books with your finger in other kindle models, it creates a text file inside your kindle with the highlighted text, although I believe it contains all of your highlights, that is, from every book in your kindle. So there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to do it with the pencil.

[@himbourbanist]

I nearly bought this thing but didn't because this video showed me that you can't highlight directly on the pages of books that you read. That's why I wanted it. Are there any ereaders that can do that now? That's literally all I want, I mark up my physical books I own all the time and I want to be able to do that on a tablet so I don't need to carry around all of my god damn pens and highlighters all the time

[@iamthemobey]

Superb editing 👌🏻

[@Targetlockon]

Watched the Riley one with the Boox, thought it was ..... the same video but re-uploaded James this time around

[@carnsoaks1]

Borat. My wife, won't wring and hang dish cloths. She just folds and sits them on the "wet top" alongside the sink. One picks it up later and it's all squishy and slimy. Refuses to accept there might be a better way.

[@RenatoG1848]

I feel like James and Riley played Rock Paper Scissors and James won to review the good e-writer

[@mrdan2898]

The pen is the same tech as the Samsung note tables, although with the older Samsung tablets, the pen was stored inside the tablet, and that was why I purchased the tablet, no need to worry about losing the pen.

[@_cybrix_]

The editing on this video was Metal 🤘

[@oienu]

Comics, Manga and true documents like PDF when the small screen need zoom are perfect for this size!

[@excess_alex.mp4]

The issue at 11:25 is made more obvious when you take into account online textbook software and a free library app called Libby have allowed users to at least highlight individual lines. Its very do-able to allow people to mark up e-books they have to return at some point. And if they own it, whats the problem?

[@dctaken]

I'm just excited for the big screen. I never got the chance to grab the Kindle DX and always wanted one. Yes, I can use my large tablet but I like the kindle's ecosystem and its e-ink display.

[@Railgun5]

I am wondering why suddenly all the tech channels doing E-Ink related videos all together. I am using it for years now and never seen such a surge. Lets make E-ink popular.

[@jordanbecker5692]

God I just can’t justify the price for this or the ReMarkable.

[@jayman8001]

"No amount of conversations will change her behavior" 😂 I have realized that with my gf and i just love her for who she is now🤭.

[@tdata545]

If it's Wacom EMR, might pick one of those pens up. To round out my collection of Wacom EMR pens. I have like 30 different ones. I have weird hobbies, but I've learned that the newer Samsung products haven't been playing nicely with the older Note Pro 12.2 styluses that I've bought, even my old favorite with a dedicated eraser that was put out by samsung for the that first stylus supported tablet (whose back is now gross and melted, I have two of those one ATT and one WIFI). Also recently learned that the Samsung Fold Stylus that only works with the Fold line, is just using the eraser frequency, since when you use it in art apps on the S22 Ultra or the Tab S 8+ it defaults to an eraser.

[@tams805]

It is Wacom EMR. Amazon don't seem to be selling the pens separately though. Any Wacom EMR pen (except for Wacom's top end products and all slates) from around 2014 onwards should work fine. As for the Fold line, yeah they just swapped frequencies. Oddly though, no one has come up with a way to swap the frequencies in the Fold. Perhaps it's a physical thing? Also, if you aren't there already, tabletpcreview is still around for anyone who wants to be a stylus aficionado.

[@tdata545]

@@tams805 I found the pens for sale on Amazon, they're $60 US, it's under Kindle Scribe Premium Pen or Basic Pen if you want one without the eraser for like $50.

[@megagabby7345]

Honestly a smaller size would go a long way in my opinion. The biggest appeal for a kindle is that it is supposed to be a replacement for a book. So at this size it really loses that. I get that being smaller isn't as good for writing, but i enjoy the rocket book size so something similar would be nice

[@FreyrFox]

Re: the pen, it probably works like some drawing tablets that use magnetic fields to activate them

[@SimonBauer7]

yea probably emr.