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Amazon just released two new Kindle models in the UK, including its most expensive e-ink device ever.
Starting from £569.99, this top-of-the-line Kindle Scribe costs twice as much as some of the newer Fire TV-powered Smart TVs. Dubbed the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, it borrows the colourful e-ink that made its debut on the Kindle Colorsoft in the UK last year, but adds the ability to make handwritten notes, annotate documents, and sign PDFs.
It sits alongside the new standard Kindle Scribe with a front light starting at £449.99, plus a more budget-friendly version without a front light priced at £389.99, expected to arrive in the UK slightly later this year.
So what makes these new devices special? Amazon has completely overhauled the design to make it feel more like actual paper in your hands with its newer colour ink technology.
Here's everything you need to know about the new lineup and how it compares to competitors like the closely related reMarkable Paper Pro.
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The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft introduces colour writing to Amazon’s e-reader lineup, combining a slim, paper-like design with an 11-inch glare-free display. This new model is designed to feature faster performance, textured glass, and weeks-long battery life to enhance the experience. With AI-powered note search, cloud integration via Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, and distraction-free use, it’s built for focused reading, writing, and creativity all in one place.
Plus, if you have an old or even broken Kindle lying around, you can box it up and send it back to Amazon's warehouse, and you'll get 20% off on the brand new Scribe Colorsoft
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For starters, the entire lineup is very slim — just 5.4mm thin and weighing only 400g. That's light enough to carry around all day without your bag feeling heavy. They're slightly thicker, yet lighter than the reMarkable Paper Pro, which measures at 5.1mm thin and weighs 525g.
The average weight of one paperback alone is anywhere between 170 and 340, so you can easily save space and eliminate the extra weight with one of these tablets.
The 11-inch screen on the lineup is designed to be glare-free, like the Kindle Paperwhite. It also matches the proportions of a real sheet of paper, which makes it ideal for reading full documents or jotting down notes.
Everything is built to run 40% quicker than before, so your writing appears instantly, and pages are meant to flip without any lag. Amazon's packed with a new quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM, so everything can run smoothly. This is double the amount of RAM found in the Paper Pro.
The screen itself uses texture-moulded glass that's meant to replicate the feel of paper – none of that slippery tablet feeling that you'd find on other tablets like the Apple iPad.
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The Scribe Colorsoft model uses Amazon's specially developed display technology to create colours that aren't supposed to strain your eyes like a typical tablet or phone screen.
Like the current Kindle Colorsoft, it uses a colour filter combined with nitride LEDs that enhance the hues without washing out any of the finer details in your writing or drawings. Amazon has also built a completely new rendering engine specifically for colour writing, so everything you put on screen looks natural and responds smoothly.
You have 10 pen colours and five highlighter shades to play with, plus a new shader tool for creating smooth gradients in your artwork.
The Scribe Colorsoft model uses Amazon's specially developed display technology to create colours that aren't supposed to strain your eyes like a typical tablet or phone screen.
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Similar to its predecessors, you'll get weeks of use from a single charge, which is great if you're someone who's constantly on the go and doesn't want to have to worry about lugging around an extra charger.
There are also no apps or notifications to distract you. It's just you and your thoughts on the page.
The AI-powered notebook feature is where things get really clever. You can utilise the all-new Alexa+ with the feature called to "Send to Alexa+." This allows you to send handwritten notes and documents to the Alexa app to summarise, create to-do lists, and set reminders.
The new Scribes now support Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, so you can import documents for marking up and export annotated PDFs when you're done
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You can now connect to your existing workflow without having to switch your devices. The new Scribes now support Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, so you can import documents for marking up and export annotated PDFs when you're done.
If you're a OneNote user, you can send your notes across as converted text or embedded images to keep everything in one place.
You also have a choice of storage among the models — either 32GB or 64GB.
Generally, the 32GB alone can be expected to hold roughly 9,000 to over 30,000+ normal ebooks (depending on the file size, usually assuming 1-2 MB each), hundreds of PDF documents, and dozens of audiobooks without filling the device.