It’s an electronic ink display, meaning it’s in black-and-white with plenty of gray shades in between. It feels much more of an accomplishment to turn the page five or six times for every one page I experience on the larger Scribe screen. But for the moment, I prefer reading books on the library app on my phone, because I can hold it in one hand and quickly turn pages. Once I figured it all out, I was fine and really enjoyed the experience. I don’t really know where the controls are, and it took some getting used to bringing up hidden menu features. Ironically, what I thought was a little messy was reading e-books on the Scribe.
It doesn’t read them via OCR and type them out, like many note-taking apps do on tablets. On the Scribe, I can just email the notes directly from the machine to my laptop if I want. The latter allows everything I’ve written to kind of settle into my brain so that I remember it better. When I’m done, I either digitally scan my handwritten notes for reference later or go back and type them in. Mind you, I’m very used to handwriting via pen and paper – it’s my preferred method because I love the feel of it, I’ve been used to it since childhood, and it’s analog.
I’ve been finding the experience of writing notes on it flawless. You can also pick a pen tip size, as well. And you can pick from many different types of digital paper – lined sheets to graph paper to checklists and everything in between. There’s no latency when you put the digital stylus to the screen. But what caught my eye about the Kindle Scribe is it provides me the ability to write on a large 10.2-inch display that looks and feels appropriate for writing notes. I also have several electronic paper-pen sets that companies have sent me through the years - allowing me to hand-write notes and then digitize them by scanning the pages. Rewinding for a moment, I’ve tried several note-taking apps on various tablets and phones in the past.
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