Is the Kindle Scribe worth it?

Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Is the Kindle Scribe worth it?”.
Have you ever wanted a less convenient e-reader that you can write on while introducing yakindo squibe? It is the first Kindle you can write on. It comes with a stylus, comes with a stylus, not like the remarkable, where you have to buy it separately, which was 50 US dollars, but now is like 80 or something fact check that 70 or 80.. So the one that we got has 16 gigabytes of storage. That is the minimum that compared to eight gigabytes on the remarkable 2. to be fairly remarkable too.

It’S pretty old at this point and then we bought the premium pen, which is 30 more. The difference of the premium pen is that it has a shortcut on it. So you can switch between pen, highlighter and eraser and I think that’s actually a has an eraser on the back excellent. Why can’t I just pull this out it’s so it just looks easy, but it’s not Hollow. It’S like a little file folder inside there.

With these little sections, I’m trying to pull on them can’t do it. I think this was meant to be like this, but someone got there first, oh, was there a squirrel in here? What is this? Was my wife here seriously like trying to pour a bowl of cereal with a box that she opened? It’S just like goes everywhere. It’S coming out the side, just unbelievable no amount of conversations about it will change your behavior either you just. I just think I have to live with. This is the tablet itself we’re gon na set that aside, but I have comments, looks like a little quick setup guide for Australian customers. This is going to be a selection of replacement tips for the stylus.

Let’S see yeah, it opens that way. Oh, what’s this ring thing, just can’t not make it lower the Rings reference. The remarkables um replacement tips had a cool thing where there was a little slider in here to help you remove the tip on the existing tip installed. On your stylus, I don’t know how to get this out. Just pull. Is there such a thing on here? Is that what this is for? Oh, I put it in pinch, ha metal. I guess I can’t just stab it on like I could with a remarkable setup. You just put it in like this: there we go pen tricks yeah, I can do them. What else is there anything else in there? No, we got a little charger here, uh another charger.

It’S USB a to c and there’s a c charging port right. Speaking of uh there’s a button over here is this: that’s like the uh yeah, that’s the lock sort of button kind of weird to have the charger. Is it weird to have the charger over there? It’S kind of sticking out the bottom. If you go in landscape mode, but I feel like the default would be portrait, so maybe it would be over there, but I can see why they would want everything on the same side, but that’s the engineer’s problem that shouldn’t be my problem yeah. This is clearly the default look at there’s the logo. I don’t know it doesn’t really matter because you charge these so sell them. They advertise the battery is lasting weeks. It depends if you’re just reading or writing depends if you have Wi-Fi on or off, but I mean I have had times where I’m reading with this thing plugged in because, like you just don’t use it for a month, and you want to go read on your Lunch break or something I think, it’s more forgivable than on a phone or even a a tablet like an iPad or an Android tablet, because you you just plug in so sell them with. These also has these little feet, which is kind of weird they’re, not really in the way of your fingers when you’re holding it in any kind of reasonable way. Even if I put it into my palm, I just can’t feel it makes it non-slip on the table and there’s no rocking and it’s not getting scuff up the back, so I guess they’re appreciated. I wonder I feel like some someone fought for those to be on here. Other people were like you’re, crazy, but we’ll let you have this one. It’S very thin. I would say it’s it’s like less than a quarter inch thick. It’S definitely it has a thicker kind of spine on this. One side seems like that’s a kind of cool place to hold it, but it actually might make it harder to change to turn pages I’ll.

Try that in a little bit definitely gon na be bigger than your typical Cheapo tablet. So you know if you’ve got bad eyesight, you can really get in the zone here. Let’S turn it on check it out right after this message from our sponsors, thanks to Vesti. For sponsoring today’s video Christmas season is upon us, which means it’s time to stay warm and stay dry.

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That’S the difference with these right so by tapping the plus icon where’s that up here you can also add folders to keep your notebooks organized and your notes, your notes, can be multiple pages. Okay, so templates you got blank, you got regular, lined, there’s different graphing people. Oh, that’s like a spreadsheet one interesting, I’m gon na go with uh this big fat learn how to write. Take notes on your Kindle to turn the page swipe anywhere or use the pointer tool to tap the sides of screen.

Okay, so that just like uh other e-readers, the screen is divided into regions and so tapping like this third will like Turn the page that way tapping this one turn it that way. Writing tools, there’s three writing tools, there’s just pen, highlighter and eraser, but there are different sizes or girths. If you will of the pens undo and redo very standard stuff. Can I just swipe new page see my little.

My little thing went away, we’re back and if I hit my pen do I get different there. We go five gradations. Let’S go fine because you are so fine. I don’t know why.

I wrote that speed wise. It feels pretty good. I remember when I used the remarkable when you draw a line like that and lift off. You can see your stroke complete once you’ve already lifted off the page.

The latency was improved for remarkable too. There is still some bit of a lag, but I think that this screen is probably a bit clearer. It’S the same Clarity that you see on the other entries in the lineup. It’S about 300 PPI. Let’S see what I can do with shading, though, because on the remarkable the tip understands it when it’s tilted and will kind of draw a little differently. No, that is like the exact same stroke. It doesn’t matter. I oh do I have an eraser on here, heck yeah.

It shows you is that, like a preview of a racing, you can see what’s going to be erased and then it like actually erases after see how the lines of the page are more visible. After I lift off it’s not a feature of bugs kind of bizarre, I want to check out the how light you can draw, because that was one of the things on remarkable. You couldn’t do a very, very light stroke without it cutting out being like a dotted line.

Yeah you kind of get there’s a limit. You can see, that’s like becoming a broken line, or it’s just not even doing anything right now, I’m just gliding on the glass. I don’t seem to be able to do any kind of like different lightness or like strength of of shading, but I guess that’s.

I guess that’s not what their target is for this. They just want you to be able to write little construction, layouts and quick, math notes and stuff. Now, where am I supposed to put this pen, I think there’s a magnetic side somewhere there.

It is that’s on there pretty good to a decent degree. The cool thing about this pen: you don’t need to charge it at all. How does that work? Whoa, there’s a dark mode.

What does that? Look like? Okay, that’s cool, it’s kind of just the photo negative. I appreciate that there are 16 different gradations of of gray levels on this tablet, so that actually makes it useful for not just reading books, but you can read comic books because there’s going to be some grayscale there. Obviously, it’s not color um, but it definitely makes it more feature. Rich and usable.

Let’S see if this button is worth thirty dollars click. What am I shortcutting two still not highlighting do I have to map it or something? One thing: that’s cool with this screen. Is you can actually change the color temperature of it, which is something they have on their other, Kindle like paper, whites and stuff? So you can go from a cool blue, all the way to like orange, which is nice if you’re reading in bed, which you should do it’s terrific you’re not supposed to do that, though. But you can, if it’s orange right and unlike the cheapest e-readers, that I always get that rely on me having a light turned on this actually has LEDs, underneath, I believe, there’s 32 of them under the screen.

So because it’s e-ink, you can use this completely without the LEDs being on, but with those LEDs you can read in the dark and you can adjust the brightness to their zero and attacking like oh up to 24, which would probably be too bright for my bedroom. The thing that’s cool is that you don’t need, like a super amount of brightness, to be able to read in a in a sunny outdoor environment because reflective screens like e-rater screens, even without LEDs, they worked great in the in those environments. So the brightness is just a bonus like the other Kindles. They have like a matte anti-clare kind of finish, not much to say about that. This is quite satisfying. What have I drawn? What is that? Is it a box? Is it a book? Is it pointing towards you or away from you? No one knows and shortcuts the default is like zero, like the default’s, nothing or no.

It says it’s highlighter, but I couldn’t get that working. Oh, you can shortcut tool to a sticky note. So that’s for when you’re reading books and you want to – I don’t think I want to test this in a second. I don’t think you can just mark up books and PDFs and stuff, but you can add sticky notes to them.

Yes, oh, what the that’s, the I think, that’s the highlighter! It’S not that you toggle to it. You hold it down to switch to it and then release to go back to your other pen. That’S! What’S going on! It’S kind of nice, though I guess that’s kind of fewer actions: oh wow, now it’s in left-handed mode and it’ll also flip like well.

I guess rotate. No, it rotated this way before okay, it’ll flip. That way, but not this way fair, fair enough! I guess. Let’S read some books, it has all the Kindle functionality for getting documents onto it and you can upgrade the storage from 16 gigabytes to 64., which is just huge for documents tap on the the page to place your note exactly where you want it, I rarely drag Yeah right, oh handwritten, what’s text, oh, I can just go like this. It’S kind of um asymmetrical because it has a wider bezel. In this this hand, so it kind of it’s offsetting where you’re holding that keyword, which is a little bit weird. What, if I flip it this way, will it rotate now this only rotates 180., so frustrating? I think I honestly would be just better off going like this. Can you see what I wrote? They don’t have auto correct. They don’t have autocorrect, I guess brutal. So that’s the sticky notes.

What if I use my shortcut and then tap or I hold it while tapping there, it is tap it while hold. What about highlighting, though can’t I take my highlighter and highlight on the page that sucks is that so stupid? I could see that there would be technical hurdles that you would have to accomplish if you wanted to be able to just mark up any document that you brought onto your Kindle like they might have to make a completely new file like a kind of a daughter File to save, alongside of your books and stuff like that, I could see why you wouldn’t be able to mark up that file directly in it like Steve. Jobs would have figured that out and they didn’t figure that out.

So it feels kind of like an incomplete product. You would expect that, like the purest form of a Kindle you can write on would be highlighting stuff like this instead of swiping uh. Writing in the margins, like the sticky notes, is cool too, but I want to be able to mark this up like a pen on a damn book, and I cannot only that you can’t even use sticky notes on manga magazines or newspapers. So at that point you just have a big Kindle. You know what would be nice if you could map the back button to the pen, because it’s kind of annoying to have to swipe down or go back that way. What other settings do we have in here? Warmth schedule, so you can actually change whether the LED is blue or orange according to a schedule.

So I’ll turn that on you can set time yourself or you can have it time to the sunrise and stuff. I guess your the schedule you’re setting is just like what time do you want this brightness to be active? Oh, but then you need to allow that location. Access down that makes that makes sense. It couldn’t just be a drop down menu.

I just picked Vancouver like time zone or something no, but we’ll just take the data instead display size, there’s just two options: big and less big. I thought there would be like a sliding scale. It’S not that much bigger, but yeah. Send me.

Send me a PDF and we’ll see if I can write on it using the email below that’s what you want. Okay uh. Can I mark this up? Yes, I can write on a PDF, thank God, and can I write a sticky note on this? I can highlight. I can erase I don’t know what this hand is still. I think we figured out what the hand tool is. So if I’m in here writing I’m just drawing.

But if I turn my pen into a hand – and I swipe now – I’ve turned the page and if I tab up here now, I get that so turn your pen into a finger. Another way to do this is to go like this, or if you got two of these, which is quite a privilege, go that way doesn’t even work. Okay, that’s page one! I think it’s a decent product.

I think that the remarkable two is Superior in some ways, though it is older, it looks just as cool and premium. It looks a little different than this. It has some features that this could stand to gain, although you are up against Amazon’s, you know the whole.

Kindle ecosystem – and you know, buying a book on Amazon and just sending it directly to your Kindle all that stuff is really cool, but in terms of the drawing um, I don’t think they’re that different and remarkable has some drawing features that are cool and it’s like 20 bucks cheaper at this point: if you get the basic pen on that one, but being a newer device um, this seems a bit faster, although it’s not that fast and it has more storage, which is cool. I don’t think this is too unreal unruly or unreasonable to use as an e-reader, the remarkable’s, probably, I think it seems a little bigger and is kind of stupider as an e-reader. You could still easily take this along uh in your bag or in your suitcase on a trip, but you’re not gon na put it in like a jacket, pocket or easily have it on like on the bus or something like that if you have any bag with You you’re good to go yeah. One thing I wanted to try, though, is what the Turning of pages is like when you’re holding it in your left hand, because it seems like it, it affords left hand holding since it’s thicker on this side. That’S going forward. I think that’s okay, unless you’re the type who likes to tap, but why not swipe it’s a world of swipes? We live in when you go from the 300 for the remarkable two plus at least eighty dollars for the pen.

You got 380, whereas the opening price for this is 340.. Now this is kind of a good fidget toy. So who should get this? Should you get this instead of a cheap? Android tablet really depends on your focus if, if you really want it for the note-taking and the reading probably would just go for this – you can do those things on an Android tablet and you can do a lot more as well, but they’re not going to be As Sleek they’re not gon na have the battery life you’re not gon na be able to read Outdoors as easily so I don’t think this is a bad product by any means. So thanks for watching guys, if you like this video, maybe check out the remarkable coverage we’ve done.

We also had Sarah host a video on one of these e-screen drawables too, so check that one out .