Kobo, reMarkable and Boox E Ink tablets from smaller makers already offer writing as a feature, and some have large formats with screen quality nearly as good as the Scribe's. The Scribe's real advance may simply be that Amazon, the world's fourth biggest company by market value, is making it. "We've expanded the world of what customers can do but still kept this idea of a sanctuary where people can get into the content and not be distracted," Kevin Keith, Amazon's vice president of product management and marketing, said in an interview. It's engineered to help you get deep into tasks undermined by most internet-enabled devices: attentive reading and note-taking. Swimming against this tide, the Kindle Scribe's mission is unglamorous. The first Kindle launched the same year as the first iPhone, and in the decade and a half since, our personal devices have grown smarter, faster, flashier - and now exert a greater influence on our mental well-being. Read more: Amazon Kindle Scribe Review: This Note-Taking E Ink Tablet Strikes a Great Balanceīut by rejuvenating the low-frills Kindle, Amazon is hoping to give you new reasons to experience the centuries-old joy of reading. Its big update: In addition to reading, you can write on it now too. But this week, Amazon started selling its Kindle Scribe, a refreshed version of the E Ink reader first launched back before Amazon even had a mobile app. Bush administration can be its next big thing again.Īmazon doesn't shy away from flashy ideas, whether it's a delivery drone, robotic sentry or a conversation with virtual assistant Alexa. With the Kindle Scribe, Amazon is hoping that a device it launched during the George W.
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