Is the Kindle Scribe worth it?

James is an avid Kindle user, so we got the new Kindle Scribe in to see if this new eReader does it all or if it fails to deliver on being either a drawing tablet or an eBook champion.

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 eReaders have evolved
0:45 Unboxing
2:23 Design impressions
4:05 Sponsor - Vessi Footwear
4:37 Taking notes and stylus impressions
7:53 Front lighting settings and thoughts on screen
9:10 Sticky Notes vs Marking up books
11:57 Other settings
12:37 Marking up PDFs and other stylus tools
13:22 ReMarkable vs Scribe
14:26 Using the scribe one-handed
14:45 Pricing and overall thoughts
15:19 Outro

[Gubby-Man]

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

[genshi]

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

[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...

[Neoxon]

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?

[azimpetra]

I have a feeling LMG is reading my search history.

2 e-ink vids within a week

[bobbyhinner]

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

[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

[randomnintendofan]

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.

[cooltop]

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

[Robeeh]

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.

[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

[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.

[TimothyBoyle]

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.

[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.

[chiodos]

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

[kevinbarry]

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

[ericsoto]

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.

[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.

[MonkRX]

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

[AhmedSaeed]

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