Its a big new feature for the product, though a couple of firms have already beaten Amazon to the punch here, include reMarkable and Sony, with its DPT-CP1 and DPT-RP1 products. For the first time since the first Kindle was introduced in late-2007, Amazon’s added the ability to write on-device with a stylus. Kindle Paperwhite Now with a 6.8 display and thinner borders, adjustable warm light, up to 10 weeks of battery life, and 20 faster page turns. It’s the sort of thing that tends to slow innovation to a screeching halt, aside from the addition of USB-C to the entry-level Kindle and Paperwhite, along with a bump in display res to 300 ppi for the former.īut the Scribe brings something altogether new to the line: writing. Purpose-built for reading, Kindle features a glare-free touchscreen display that reads like real paper, even in direct sunlight. To get started, visit the Kindle Cloud Reader website in a desktop browser on your Windows, Mac, or Linux computer.

Kobo is still kicking, but Amazon has utterly dominated the category for some years. News of the Kindle Scribe arrives as things have been fairly quiet on the e-reader front.

We’re expecting plenty of news out of today’s virtual Amazon event (and slightly melancholy that we weren’t able to cover it from Seattle), but the company’s 15-year-old e-reader line is the big news this time out. Hard to believe that, in 2022, the Kindle can still headline an Amazon event - and yet, he were are.

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