Kindle Scribe Review: Design, Features, Battery Life, and more!

The Kindle Scribe returns to large-screen Kindles, complete with a pen. We wish the pen was more helpful and had more writing functions.

However, the Scribe is still a great Kindle e-reader, which means you get excellent battery life, a sharp, bright screen, and full access to your Kindle library of books and Audible audiobooks.

Design of Kindle Scribe

Because of the all-metal chassis, the Amazon Kindle Scribe is a much bigger version of the Kindle Oasis.

The Kindle Scribe includes rounded sides, beautifully curved edges, and a broad, flat back with four small nubs for feet. If you hold the tablet Amazon smile-up, it has a bezel all around with a bigger edge on the left side.

You can flip the Scribe and grip the bigger edge with your right hand.

The included pen is held in place by a magnet on the opposite side corner of the Scribe. Unfortunately, when you slip a tablet in and out of a backpack sleeve, even the strongest rare earth magnets can’t hold a pen in place. So, that’s a letdown.

On the other hand, the Kindle includes a bright LED backlit screen that can be switched between a bluish-gray tint and a blue light-free tint that is preferable for evening reading. Even being such a huge tablet, the Kindle is quite pleasant to handle and use for reading.

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Price and availability of Kindle Scribe 

The Scribe, at $339 (or more if you choose a better pen and a cover), is Amazon’s biggest and most costly Kindle in years. However, if you choose the 16GB Kindle Scribe with the Basic Pen, you get a good return.

Writing experience on Kindle Scribe 

Notebooks on the Kindle Scribe provide you with the space and tools you need to write and draw anything you desire.

Each notebook may utilize one of 18 templates, which include, among other things, blank pages, ruled columns, tables, ruled lines, and day planner pages. Furthermore, notebooks can have several pages and be organized in distinct folders if needed.

Although writing with the hard plastic stylus on a matte screen doesn’t feel quite like writing on paper, it is still possible to be precise, and there is no delay between putting the pen on display and seeing a mark appear.

On a scribbled-black space, you won’t get excellent eraser markings. But, again, the Scribe is designed to be a notepad rather than a genuine artist’s pad, so precision with subtractive sketching isn’t a must-have function.

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Reading Experience on Kindle Scribe 

If you’ve used any other Kindle, the reading experience is precisely what you’d expect. The text is bright, and the temperature-adjustable front light allows you to adjust the view to your preferences.

In addition, the 16 grayscales provide ample range from light to dark to allow viewing visual material such as comic books. But, of course, any color information in full-color comics will be lost on the grayscale screen.

Until color E Ink becomes viable, the only way to read the stuff in full color is on a tablet such as the iPad. In contrast, monochrome or black-and-white comics and novels appear just as they should.

Everything revolves around the Kindle store. You may purchase books directly from Amazon, use your Amazon Prime membership to access a local library of ebooks with Prime Reading, or discover a better variety with a $9.99/month Kindle Unlimited subscription.

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Battery life of Kindle Scribe 

According to Amazon, the Scribe may last up to 12 weeks when reading for 30 minutes a day, turning off the Wi-Fi, and setting the front light to 13 (out of 20), or three weeks while writing for 30 minutes a day under the same settings.

Final thoughts

The Amazon Kindle Scribe is a fantastic large-screen ebook reader and note-taking gadget, but it is not a drawing pad. The e-ink tablet is excellent for reading and writing but lacks tools for sharing and editing.