The second-generation Kindle Scribe goes on sale for the first time

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to upgrade your Kindle Scribe, now wouldn’t be a bad time—Amazon is holding its first sale on the new model that’s only been out for a month. Normally $450, 2024 Kindle Scribe is 19 percent off, bringing the 64GB model down to $365. With the latest generation, Amazon changed the look of the tablet and added some AI features, along with some new note-taking options.

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Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe lets you write directly on books.

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The second-generation Kindle Scribe has white bezels around the screen and a green (metallic jade) or gray (tungsten) bezel, as opposed to the previous model’s thick black bezel. The discount applies to both colors and, for the gray version, all storage options (16GB, 32GB and 64GB). When we loved the new design and found the reading and writing experience to be smooth.

The new Kindle Scribe uses AI to help you clean up and summarize your notes with summarizing and refining tools—and you can apply them to individual pages or the entire notebook. These features performed quite well for us. In her review, Engadget’s deputy reviews editor Cherlyn Lowe found that Scribe was able to “make sense of a disorganized plan” she wrote by correctly putting list items in a consistent order, and she saw “largely accurate results.” , when summarizing her notes. “Every mistake the system made seemed reasonable since I have terrible handwriting,” she wrote.

Now there’s a better way to write directly on eBooks. With Kindle Scribe from 2024. Amazon has introduced the Active Canvas, a small box that will pop up when you place your pen on top of whatever you’re reading. The box can be resized and won’t disappear when you leave the page. You’ll also soon be able to write in collapsible fields, a feature expected to arrive early this year. One of our biggest complaints about the new Kindle Scribe was the relatively high price, so if you like it, don’t miss your chance to get it at a discount.

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