Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This changes EVERYTHING! Kindle Scribe”.
Thank you to Amazon for sponsoring this video. The Kindle totally becomes Anonymous. The Ian can reading eating players existed before the Kindle they’re, never the same after the Kindle and Amazon’s made that product better and better over the years and a few months ago they reached the top of the Kindle Hill uh, with the appropriate name Kindle scribe. It has writing capabilities, it’s the already awesome. Kindle ecosystem didn’t just add reading as an afterthought, it actually does some of the best implementation of simulating pen and paper, and because it’s a technology thing over, there updates and it’s constantly getting better. We just got a new update a few days ago that had a bunch of cool new features. So before I tell you about everything the Kindle scribe can do, let me do something I like to do you get a chance to win 500 bucks because you are awesome, good human beings for supporting the Channel all these years. Let me know, comment down below. Let me know what you would read on your Kindle scribe. Tell me a joke.
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I was one of the first piece of technology that I took with me when I traveled I’ve had many many Kindles over the years and the older I’ve gotten the less time I have to actually sit and read, and so it’s nice to always have something. When I try to pick up a book, I know it’s always going to be there for me, but my almost 10 year old reads almost a book a week and his bookshelf was starting to overflow. So I got him a Kindle and I got him the entry level Kindle and that kid has read about 30 books on that thing, and he saw me testing the Kindle scribe and he came up like really thought I was being real, clever he’s like Dad. What are you gon na like what you can do with that giant Kindle? I was like. I don’t know man we’re gon na. You know where to film it take a look at it play with it.
He was angling for the Kindle. I think it’s a cool product when it could appeal to adults to kids to kind of anybody who loves to read, and you take all that things that were awesome about the Reading part. Adding the ability to write and take notes and you’ve got a really killer product, so the Kindle scribe is really the first Kindle in the last few years that I think a lot of people would want to upgrade for I’ve, packed all the Kindle stuff that you Love but then it adds on top of it, but even though scribe is in the name, this is first and foremost a Kindle means you’re going to be believe it or not, you’re able to read books on it and if you are going to read books on This thing it is still the best at that it’s not even close, not always Amazon’s selection. Second To None. The ink display is still one of the best to actually read on, and the design of the Scribe, which was Amazon, is expecting you to sort of hold. This in your hand, for a long time, it’s got an asymmetrical design which looks different at first, but it makes holding it way easier, big chunky, bezel. On the side I mean you can have your hand holding it you’re not covering any of the words with your hand, it makes it really simple.
It’S also reversible flip it over. If you want to hold it with the other hand, however, you want to do it. You are good to go.
The screen, though, is 10.2 inch. Touchscreen eating display has a backlight in just a color temperature of if you’d like, and you can just swipe to turn pages in a book. It’S like using your smartphone, but it’s really less distracting and way. Better for your eyes, I think, for the screen really shines, though, is when it comes to using the pen that comes with it ever since tablets become mainstreaming.
Companies have tried really hard to make handwriting experience, feel as close to pen and paper as possible, but there’s no way to make a simulated pen feel a paper on a glass display. I think that’s where something like eating comes in the screens themselves have a bit of texture to it, makes it a little rougher like a piece of paper would be so when you put that you know the pan or stylus to that ink. It does have a more natural experience, but the other problem, a lot of people run into when they’re trying to draw on pieces of technology, is there’s latency.
You move your hand a little bit and then you slowly start to see that line start to show up and if you’re, drawing or taking notes you lose where you are you’re, not sort of in the motion with the Scribe you’re. Getting it really close. Almost no latency experience, it does feel kind of one to one as you go and write notes, and I could show you you’re taking notes, but that sounds very exciting uh. I wanted to show you drawing a picture.
Fortunately, here we have people who are very talented with a pen and paper, I’m gon na. Let them draw a picture for you to actually show how quick and how good this thing actually is. Let’S talk about the pen, so it comes with the Kindle scribe, usually with some of these styluses, you have to charge them.
Sometimes they charge in very weird ways: uh this one. I don’t know how this works, but it does not need to be charged at all. So I guess it’s always charged uh and also it’s magnetic, so it can stick right to the Kindle scribe.
You can upgrade for 30 bucks to a pro pen that give you some more options like an eraser on the back, but either the one that ships with it or the pro pen also has a shortcut button. You can program to what you want and, of course you get the things you can typically do with e-ink and a pen. You can pick the type of writing you want.
If you want a fountain pen experience, you want a big chunky marker. Whatever you want, you can make it look like that. So, if you want a thin lines, thick lines, you’ve got that ability here as well. One thing to keep in mind, though, because it is ink it’s black and white not going to be drying in color, but you can get a really good experience with you know like holding a black pen on a piece of paper uh, it’s really similar to what That experience is like, so I think all that is fine, but, like I said it’s a use case question right: maybe you have a Kindle.
Why would you want to upgrade you bought one fire six years ago? What are you getting out of this so first you’re getting a really big screen, it’s 10.2 inches, which is awesome. But now, if you want to take notes, you have the ability to do that very easily. You can edit, on top of a PDF. If you want to highlight, you can do that here as well in a thin light package, because it’s ink the battery seems to last forever. It is another way to take notes. It’S another way to draw it’s another way to enjoy your content, and I think that’s a really cool thing that Kindle does you don’t have to change what you are doing to enjoy what you want. You want to read a book. You can do that if you want to take notes, you can do that.
You want to write. You can do that too. If you want to do none of that you’ve got.
You know that option too, or just pick one of those things. This will change to suit you instead of the other way around. I don’t have to explain the benefit of otsu, probably at this point, but because it can get OTA, it’s going to constantly be getting better.
We’Ve seen Amazon have a commitment to their Kindle device. Even Legacy devices still get updates and still are improving the main update that just hit and then there’s a bunch there, but my favorite, I think, is the ability to export handwriting is text. This is absolutely an invaluable tool. I know a lot of time.
Writing is just easier and more enjoyable than typing when it comes to sharing that with other people. A text document just makes the most sense. So with this, you can convert your handwriting to text and send that to whoever you want and it’s sent as a txc file, so you can open it up anywhere with pretty much any app. You can also edit your handwriting or drawings way easier there as well. There’S a new lasso select tool that lets you draw or circle around what you’d like to select and then you can sort of resize it and move it. You can cut copy or paste it across different sort of notebooks or PDFs.
Oh also, this is a big one. Pdfs have a bunch of view options now, like landscape or portrait size text and a ton more pretty awesome other feature in there too. That leverages what the Scribe can do is write on content. There’S a selection of Kindle books that allow you to write directly on the pages that you’re reading.
It’S really helpful if someone likes to take notes or you’re reading, something that you just want to remember, or look up a word. So having that feature, I think here push on a Kindle makes a ton of sense. This wasn’t the first update to come to the Scribe back in April, got the ability to send documents for Microsoft. Word directly to the Scribe, plus there were some enhancements to navigation like better notebook overview and PDF reading improvements, uh and two new column layouts for landscape reading and in February it was introduced better page navigation within notebooks and subfolders inside of notebooks and new brush types.
Ratted, like fountain pen, marker and pencil options as well add those new features that just came in May and it takes a pretty solid product and makes it even better. This boils down to you know who you are already, if you’re thinking about getting a Kindle, you want to read more books, or maybe you’ve got an older device you’re getting the best Kindle that has ever been made, plus almost Second To None ability to write on That screen as well you’re getting extra functionality from a device you already love and the Kindle scribe not only knocks the eating Creator out of the park, but it’s a really good alternative to pen and paper. If you want to learn more and check it out for yourself, we got a link to it down below .