Kindle Scribe Vs. Scribe Colorsoft: Here's Who Should Spend $600 On An Amazon Tablet

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Amazon unveiled a caller Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.
• The e-readers are bladed and mimic penning connected paper. 
• Prices scope from $500 to $679. 

Amazon unveiled 2 caller e-readers, nan Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, astatine its autumn hardware motorboat connected Tuesday.

Of course, nan 2 e-readers are meant for reading, writing, and note-taking. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is nan first full-color note-taking e-reader Kindle has unveiled. The Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft commencement astatine $500 and $630 and will beryllium disposable later this year.

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Students looking to people up their textbooks aliases PDFs each successful 1 accessible and lightweight package will get a batch retired of this Scribe lineup, arsenic good arsenic desk-side workers looking to publication their favourite books and people up documents connected their greeting commute to nan office. 

The Kindle Scribe (left) adjacent to nan iPhone Air (right).

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The Scribes are 5.4mm heavy (or thin), which Amazon describes arsenic "ultra-thin," and measurement 400g for a light, portable feel. They person an 11-inch display, nan aforesaid dimensions arsenic a expanse of paper. 

With its 2 caller Scribes, Kindle tries to mimic penning connected insubstantial arsenic intimately arsenic possible. It achieves this paper-like consciousness done a texture-molded solid that improves nan pen's friction, a minimized parallax to emulate penning connected a page, and much representation for added efficiency. The caller specs create a penning and reference acquisition that's faster than past year's Scribe model. 

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When I demoed nan Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, I noticed really responsive my pen was connected nan display. Unlike different colour tablets I've tested, nan Scribe Colorsoft's lag clip while drafting was minimal. 

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The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft comes pinch 10 drafting colors and 5 item colors. However, I'd still for illustration to spot much than 10 colour options disposable since location are only truthful galore artistic flourishes 1 tin adhd to one's notes pinch a constricted colour variety. 

Amazon overemphasized nan shading characteristic connected nan Scribe Colorsoft, which is intended to supply layers of colour to drawings and execute nan aforesaid effect arsenic watercolor painting. This felt a spot for illustration a agelong aliases a gimmick, aliases both. Maybe personification pinch precocious integer drafting skills could make nan layering characteristic sing, but not me. It seemed for illustration a characteristic nan mean personification mightiness not use. 

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Other caller features, however, seemed much useful. Users tin touch nan Home page's Quick Notes tab to easy unfastened up a caller statement page. They tin import and export documents from some Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, a awesome summation that will make nan e-reader and notetaker recently useful to students and agency workers. 

Users tin usage AI to hunt done their notes, entree information, and summarize notes taken. Later this year, users will beryllium capable to nonstop notes to and converse pinch Alexa+ astir them. 

Amazon made nary mention of artillery life, but if it's thing for illustration past year's Kindle Scribe, reference connected nan instrumentality should past nan artillery for astir a month, and penning should past a fewer weeks successful betwixt charges.