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<\/a><\/p>\nConsequently, the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is pretty much what you\u2019d expect; an 11-inch Kindle Scribe with a Colorsoft display.<\/p>\n
But there\u2019s a bit more to it than that.<\/p>\n
Firstly, I love that it comes with the stylus in the box. Sorry \u2013 the Premium Pen, along with a set of replacement tips and a tool for replacing them with.<\/p>\n In my view, this is the closest to pen-on-paper writing and drawing experience I\u2019ve had with this kind of device. Not only does the glare-free, matte display look like ink on paper, the slight friction you feel as you use the battery-free Premium Pen mimics the sensation of a pencil or ballpoint pen on a \u201creal\u201d notebook perfectly. It conveniently magnetises onto the side of the device and you can tilt it to shade in, just like a pencil.<\/p>\n Better still, you can write and draw in a choice of 10 different colours, or highlight in 5. To erase, simply turn the pen upside down and rub out, again, just like a pencil. Or choose the eraser tool from the pull-down palette on in the left margin of the screen.<\/p>\n And even better; the Scribe Colorsoft\u2019s built-in AI capabilities can tidy up your handwritten scrawl, and summarise any notes you take. And obviously, you can convert those same notes into text as well.<\/p>\n Just imagine how much easier that makes study sessions after lectures or digesting the key points from that long business meeting you felt could have been two hours shorter.<\/p>\n That\u2019s just the beginning of the AI functionality Amazon has built into this ever-so-slim box of tricks.<\/p>\n While reading an eBook, you\u2019ll find a shortcut to your notepad, sitting in the right-hand margin. Any notes you make stay attached to that place in the book and are fully searchable, as is anything in the book itself, of course.<\/p>\n So this is a powerful note-taking tool indeed.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s also just quite a cool gadget.<\/p>\n As I\u2019ve said already, the Scribe Colorsoft is remarkably thin and light for such a large display.<\/p>\n It has excellent battery life. Even with the colours set to \u201cVivid\u201d and the Wi-Fi on full-time, I\u2019ve been using it a week and I still have a charge of 67%.<\/p>\n You can choose between Graphite or Fig (grey or purple) with matching Premium Pen, and you\u2019ll also have to decide between the 32GB and 64GB version.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a significant price difference; NZ$1,094.19 vs NZ$1,203.72 \u2013 so it\u2019ll depend on what you plan on downloading to it. Books take up hardly any space at all \u2013 unless they\u2019re audio books, which you can listen to by pairing bluetooth headphones, earbuds or speakers.<\/p>\n It\u2019s worth noting, some PDF and Word documents can take up a fair amount of space too \u2013 especially those with lots of images. So if you\u2019re planning on using the Scribe for marking docs like that, or making editing suggestions, the 64GB might be worth the investment. At least being a Colorsoft display, the pics will look pretty.<\/p>\n