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Amazon has 10.2" Amazon Kindle Scribe Devices on sale with prices starting from $294.99. Shipping is free.

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Available (Prices also apply to the "with 4 Months Free Kindle Unlimited" Bundle):Product details:
  • 10.2" 300 ppi glare-free Paperwhite display.
  • Handwrite thoughts on sticky notes in your favorite book with the included Pen. Notes are automatically organized by book in one place, so you can browse, review, and export them via email.
  • Create notebooks, journals, and lists - Choose from a variety of included templates like lined paper, grid paper, checklists, and more.
  • Review documents and take notes digitally – Use the Kindle app or desktop web browser to import documents. Review and mark up PDF files or create sticky notes in Microsoft Word and other compatible documents. Export documents and notes via email.
  • Read and write comfortably day or night – Kindle Scribe has a large, high-resolution display, adjustable warm light, auto-adjusting front light, and larger font sizes for a personalized experience.
  • A single charge via USB-C powers months of reading and weeks of writing
  • Coming Soon: Kindle Scribe provides regular, free software updates that include new features. In the coming months, Kindle Scribe will add more writing tools, including new brush types and copy/paste tools, additional notebook organization options, and the ability to send documents to Kindle Scribe directly from within Microsoft Word.

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    • All models are a 14% savings than their listed retail price. Kindle Scribe launched on Nov. 30th, 2022.
  • About this product:
    • 1-year limited warranty
    • 3.8 out of 5 stars rating at Amazon based on over 620 customer reviews
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Amazon: new lower prices on all models Kindle Scribe

W/Premium pen:
16GB - $320
32GB - $335
64GB - $360

W/Basic pen:
16GB - $295

More options:
- Buy 2 save $40
- Trade In your old Kindle - get 20% off + gift card for your trade in/depending on the model
- Same price on the Scribe w/4 month Kindle Unlimited Sub, but no Trade In option

Bundles:
- W/Fabric Cover Essential
- W/Leather Cover Essential
Included: Scribe, cover (fabric or leather, power adapter)
(depending on the model, but cheaper $20-30 than buying separate, Trade In option possible.

Most optimal combo (size/accessories/price (imo)
- Scribe 32GB w/Premium pen, not bundled - $334.99

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...X0DER&th=1

Price for 32GB before tax w/trade in: $267.99 (after 20% off) - $ GC for your trade in
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Model: Introducing Kindle Scribe (32 GB), the first Kindle for reading and writing, with a 10.2” 300 ppi Paperwhite display, includes Premium Pen

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Last Edited by dczyz January 6, 2023 at 02:42 PM
FYI - Kindle Scribe is NOT waterproof

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I was so excited about this product pre-launch but man this has turned into a huge bummer. Just to compare from a ratings perspective this product to the standard Kindles.

Reviewers that give it 5 stars:
Kindle Paperwhite - 85% (4.7 out of 5 overall)
New Kindle - 77% (4.5 out of 5 overall)
Kindle Oasis - 79% (4.6 out of 5 overall)

Scribe - 47% (3.8 out of 5 overall)

To sum up the reviews - it may be the best Kindle reading experience out there. Great build quality, the screen is top-notch. As long as you can work with a 10" screen it should make an excellent reader, maybe even the best reading experience.

BUT, and it's a huge but, the real promise of this device is to take on the expanding eInk tablet space. With Remarkable, Boox, etc you can have a great reading experience but also have a great writing experience. And this is where the Scribe is just miles behind. Awful note-taking capability. Worst in class in many functions. Reviews keep defending Amazon by saying it's a first gen product. The reality is that the feature set is much closer to a beta product. The reception has been so bad that Amazon has already announced some of the features that they will be adding "soon". They rarely, if ever, talk about their tech roadmap and future features on their other products. They've had no choice but to change their standard practices just to stop the bleeding.

I suspect that you will start seeing many of these pop-up as renewed very soon. Probably holding back right now a bit as they want to push the new inventory. Lots and lots of unhappy customers ended up shipping back their device after Christmas.

With your trade-in credit and the price reduction, the value proposition is a little better than it was at launch. Just be aware that there are products like the Note Air 2 from Boox that give you a full Android experience (including the Kindle reading app) and kill the Scribe in drawing/note-taking. When you factor in cases, stylus, etc, it works out to be about $100 more than the Scribe for much, much more functionality. You will need to consider if having the full Android experience + better writing experience for an extra $100 is worth it.
This is actually a good deal if you have an old Kindle around that works or want to swing by your local thrift shop to snag one. I just traded in a Kindle that's nearly a decade old to get a Scribe with a premium pen for around $255 shipped.

This is a big device, roughly regular iPad sized, which makes it heavier than normal Kindles. It's also not waterproof, nor does it have hardware page buttons. However, if you read comics, anything with graphics, PDFs, etc it's a really nice supplementary device - particularly if you plan to keep it for several years. USB-C charging is a huge improvement over other Kindles.

The drawing won't compete with an iPad Pro or anything, but the battery life will last weeks and if you value distraction-free focus and can live with limited sync options it's a solid option.

I personally am keeping my waterproof Paperwhite for portable reading, will use this for PDF review and general reading (I like to read on a stand anyway while eating, etc) along with general notetaking. It's not the best at anything but if you go into it with open eyes there's a lot of promise with it, and it's still a darn good eReader.

Edit: My information comes from watching basically every review on YouTube about this device. I actively take notes on my iPad Pro and iPad Mini and have used Kindles since launch.
No doubt this is in response to the Lenovo version... the inking capabilities on the lenovo looks far superior to the scribe and Lenovo seems to be committing to longer term software support for their tablets. The main product page on amazon says "Kindle Scribe does not currently support writing directly on the page in PDF documents loaded via USB-C or previously sent to your library before 11/11/2022." This is a major let down.

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01-05-2023 at 11:22 AM.
01-05-2023 at 11:22 AM.
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Is this a new model of Kindle? When was this introduced?
Newest and biggest: Nov 2022, 10.2" 300 ppi Paperwhite display
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I wonder if this price drop is a response to Lenovo's announcement of their Smart Paper tablet.
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01-05-2023 at 05:06 PM.
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This is actually a good deal if you have an old Kindle around that works or want to swing by your local thrift shop to snag one. I just traded in a Kindle that's nearly a decade old to get a Scribe with a premium pen for around $255 shipped.

This is a big device, roughly regular iPad sized, which makes it heavier than normal Kindles. It's also not waterproof, nor does it have hardware page buttons. However, if you read comics, anything with graphics, PDFs, etc it's a really nice supplementary device - particularly if you plan to keep it for several years. USB-C charging is a huge improvement over other Kindles.

The drawing won't compete with an iPad Pro or anything, but the battery life will last weeks and if you value distraction-free focus and can live with limited sync options it's a solid option.

I personally am keeping my waterproof Paperwhite for portable reading, will use this for PDF review and general reading (I like to read on a stand anyway while eating, etc) along with general notetaking. It's not the best at anything but if you go into it with open eyes there's a lot of promise with it, and it's still a darn good eReader.

Edit: My information comes from watching basically every review on YouTube about this device. I actively take notes on my iPad Pro and iPad Mini and have used Kindles since launch.
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01-05-2023 at 06:12 PM.
01-05-2023 at 06:12 PM.
I think it is better to get the 64GB version for just a few dollars more. OP, you might want to include it in the OP.
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01-05-2023 at 06:16 PM.

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I was so excited about this product pre-launch but man this has turned into a huge bummer. Just to compare from a ratings perspective this product to the standard Kindles.

Reviewers that give it 5 stars:
Kindle Paperwhite - 85% (4.7 out of 5 overall)
New Kindle - 77% (4.5 out of 5 overall)
Kindle Oasis - 79% (4.6 out of 5 overall)

Scribe - 47% (3.8 out of 5 overall)

To sum up the reviews - it may be the best Kindle reading experience out there. Great build quality, the screen is top-notch. As long as you can work with a 10" screen it should make an excellent reader, maybe even the best reading experience.

BUT, and it's a huge but, the real promise of this device is to take on the expanding eInk tablet space. With Remarkable, Boox, etc you can have a great reading experience but also have a great writing experience. And this is where the Scribe is just miles behind. Awful note-taking capability. Worst in class in many functions. Reviews keep defending Amazon by saying it's a first gen product. The reality is that the feature set is much closer to a beta product. The reception has been so bad that Amazon has already announced some of the features that they will be adding "soon". They rarely, if ever, talk about their tech roadmap and future features on their other products. They've had no choice but to change their standard practices just to stop the bleeding.

I suspect that you will start seeing many of these pop-up as renewed very soon. Probably holding back right now a bit as they want to push the new inventory. Lots and lots of unhappy customers ended up shipping back their device after Christmas.

With your trade-in credit and the price reduction, the value proposition is a little better than it was at launch. Just be aware that there are products like the Note Air 2 from Boox that give you a full Android experience (including the Kindle reading app) and kill the Scribe in drawing/note-taking. When you factor in cases, stylus, etc, it works out to be about $100 more than the Scribe for much, much more functionality. You will need to consider if having the full Android experience + better writing experience for an extra $100 is worth it.
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01-05-2023 at 07:12 PM.
01-05-2023 at 07:12 PM.
Quote from bjsguess :
I was so excited about this product pre-launch but man this has turned into a huge bummer. Just to compare from a ratings perspective this product to the standard Kindles.

Reviewers that give it 5 stars:
Kindle Paperwhite - 85% (4.7 out of 5 overall)
New Kindle - 77% (4.5 out of 5 overall)
Kindle Oasis - 79% (4.6 out of 5 overall)

Scribe - 47% (3.8 out of 5 overall)

To sum up the reviews - it may be the best Kindle reading experience out there. Great build quality, the screen is top-notch. As long as you can work with a 10" screen it should make an excellent reader, maybe even the best reading experience.

BUT, and it's a huge but, the real promise of this device is to take on the expanding eInk tablet space. With Remarkable, Boox, etc you can have a great reading experience but also have a great writing experience. And this is where the Scribe is just miles behind. Awful note-taking capability. Worst in class in many functions. Reviews keep defending Amazon by saying it's a first gen product. The reality is that the feature set is much closer to a beta product. The reception has been so bad that Amazon has already announced some of the features that they will be adding "soon". They rarely, if ever, talk about their tech roadmap and future features on their other products. They've had no choice but to change their standard practices just to stop the bleeding.

I suspect that you will start seeing many of these pop-up as renewed very soon. Probably holding back right now a bit as they want to push the new inventory. Lots and lots of unhappy customers ended up shipping back their device after Christmas.

With your trade-in credit and the price reduction, the value proposition is a little better than it was at launch. Just be aware that there are products like the Note Air 2 from Boox that give you a full Android experience (including the Kindle reading app) and kill the Scribe in drawing/note-taking. When you factor in cases, stylus, etc, it works out to be about $100 more than the Scribe for much, much more functionality. You will need to consider if having the full Android experience + better writing experience for an extra $100 is worth it.

I purchased the Scribe with trade-in like 2 hours before this deal went live and am debating between either canceling my order and chatting CS to see if they'll adjust the price.

I am a margin note writer from forever ago and just want to get that old experience back (minus all the lost books and all the lost comments that I still really wish I could refer to sometimes).

I'm so disappointed in what I've read about the Scribe, but what kept me from going with the Boox Note Air 2 is reviews that said writing margin notes in the Kindle app is either really unpleasant or impossible. (Can't remember which). If I didn't have so many academic titles, which are expensive. already purchased in Kindle format, I'd feel better about making the jump. As it stands, I'd prefer not to have to convert them for native reading on the Boox and lose formatting OR read them on the Boox in the Kindle app and have what sounds like just as unhappy an experience.

Do you have any intel on this aspect of the Boox? I would so appreciate it!

(Also, why is this so hard for Amazon and others to make happen?)
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No doubt this is in response to the Lenovo version... the inking capabilities on the lenovo looks far superior to the scribe and Lenovo seems to be committing to longer term software support for their tablets. The main product page on amazon says "Kindle Scribe does not currently support writing directly on the page in PDF documents loaded via USB-C or previously sent to your library before 11/11/2022." This is a major let down.

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Quote from whilde :
I purchased the Scribe with trade-in like 2 hours before this deal went live and am debating between either canceling my order and chatting CS to see if they'll adjust the price.

I am a margin note writer from forever ago and just want to get that old experience back (minus all the lost books and all the lost comments that I still really wish I could refer to sometimes).

I'm so disappointed in what I've read about the Scribe, but what kept me from going with the Boox Note Air 2 is reviews that said writing margin notes in the Kindle app is either really unpleasant or impossible. (Can't remember which). If I didn't have so many academic titles, which are expensive. already purchased in Kindle format, I'd feel better about making the jump. As it stands, I'd prefer not to have to convert them for native reading on the Boox and lose formatting OR read them on the Boox in the Kindle app and have what sounds like just as unhappy an experience.

Do you have any intel on this aspect of the Boox? I would so appreciate it!

(Also, why is this so hard for Amazon and others to make happen?)
It seems like you've already answered your final question ("(Also, why is this so hard for Amazon and others to make happen?") by your first statement ("I purchased the Scribe").
It's not that they can't, it's just... why should they?
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01-06-2023 at 04:35 AM.
01-06-2023 at 04:35 AM.
Never had kindle before wonder if it is worth to buy older version and trade it to save money, maybe buy cheap one from woot, anyone knows if that will work
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01-06-2023 at 04:42 AM.
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No wonder why AMZN laid off Kindle department. AMZN's heavy discount in hardware is easily offset by poor software experience.
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