Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is as much as 22 % off for Prime members

Amazon has rolled out a brand new Kindle Scribe sale for Prime members. Every configuration of the ten.2-inch ereader is as much as 22 % off, which brings the bottom model with 16GB of storage and Amazon’s “Primary Pen” stylus all the way down to $265. That is $75 off the machine’s typical worth and solely $10 greater than the low cost we noticed throughout Amazon’s Prime Day occasion final July. The 16GB variant with a “Premium Pen” stylus — which features a devoted eraser operate and a customizable shortcut button — is all the way down to $290, whereas the 32GB and 64GB fashions are $305 and $330, respectively. (The upper-capacity choices include the Premium Pen as customary.) You may get every with a three-month trial to Amazon’s Kindle Limitless service too; simply remember that the subscription will auto-renew by default.

We gave the Kindle Scribe a evaluate rating of 85 final November, and we at the moment advocate it in our information to the very best e-ink tablets. The large hook is that it is the solely Kindle with note-taking help. At its core, it really works like another Amazon ereader, however you should use the included stylus to jot issues down in books and paperwork, create to-do lists, draw sketches and so forth with minimal latency. The roomy, 300 ppi show and slim design are a delight, and you continue to get entry to Amazon’s large e book library.

Amazon has steadily improved the note-taking side of the Scribe since launch, however there are nonetheless some shortcomings. You possibly can’t mark up each e book instantly on the web page — most have you ever write in windowed sticky notes — handwriting-to-text help is restricted, and there is not any straightforward option to sync handwritten notes with companies like Google Drive or OneNote. The machine is not waterproof both. Typically talking, we just like the reMarkable 2 as a extra versatile e-ink pill for writing, whereas the Kindle Paperwhite is a greater worth purely for studying. However if you’d like some degree of pen help with out giving up the standard Kindle expertise, the Scribe is price contemplating, and this low cost makes it a little bit extra approachable.

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