Kindle Scribe Colorsoft brings coloration e-ink to Amazon’s 11-inch e-reader

Our review of the regular Kindle Colorsoft got here away lower than impressed, as a result of there was solely a lot you can do with coloration on a small-screened e-reader that didn’t help pen enter, and since it made monochrome textual content look a bit worse than it did on the common Kindle Paperwhite. The brand new Scribe Colorsoft could have among the identical issues, that are largely inherent to paint e-ink know-how because it exists immediately, however a bigger display screen may even be higher for studying comics and graphic novels, and for studying and marking up full-color paperwork—there may very well be extra of an upside, even when the technological tradeoffs are related.

Amazon has nonetheless been slower to introduce coloration to its e-readers than its opponents, like final yr’s reMarkable Paper Pro ($579 then, $629 now). The Scribe’s software program has additionally felt somewhat barebones—the writing instruments felt tacked on to the extra mature studying expertise provided by the Kindle’s working system—however that’s progressively enhancing. All the brand new Scribes help importing and exporting recordsdata from and to Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive (although not Dropbox or different providers), and the units can export notebooks to Microsoft’s OneNote app so to choose up the place you left off on a PC or Mac.

Different software program enhancements embrace a redesigned Residence display screen, “AI-powered search,” and a brand new shading instrument that can be utilized so as to add shading or gradients to drawings and sketches; Amazon says that many of those software program enhancements will come older Kindle Scribe fashions by way of software program updates someday subsequent yr.

This publish was up to date at 4:30pm on December 10 so as to add a response from Amazon about software program updates for older Kindle Scribe fashions.