- Have you ever wanted a less convenient e-reader
that you can write on?
Well, introducing the Kindle Scribe.
It is the first Kindle that you can write on.
It comes with a stylist, comes with a stylist.
Not like the reMarkable where you have to buy it separately
which was 50 US dollars but now is like 80 or something.
Fact check that, 70 or 80.
So the one that we got has 16 gigabytes of storage.
That is the minimum that compared to eight gigabytes
on the reMarkable 2, to be fairly reMarkable 2,
is pretty old at this point.
And then we've got the premium pen, which is $30 more.
The difference to the premium pen is
that it has a shortcut on it.
So you can switch between pen, highlighter and eraser
and I think that's actually, it has a dedicated eraser.
It has an eraser on the back.
Excellent, why can't I just pull this out?
It's so.
It just looks easy but it's not,
Hallo.
It's like a little file folder inside there
with like these little sections.
I'm trying to pull on them
Can't do it.
I think this was meant to be like this
but someone got there first.
Who?
Was there a squirrel in here?
What is this?
Was my wife here?
Seriously like trying to pour a bowl
of cereal with a box that she opened?
It's just like goes everywhere.
It's coming out the side.
It's unbelievable.
No amount of conversations
about it will change her behavior.
Either you're just I thing I have to live with.
This is the tablet itself.
Gonna set that aside but I have comments.
Looks like a little quick setup guide for
Australian customers.
This is gonna be a selection of replacement
tips for the stylists.
Let's see there.
Opens that way.
Ooh, it's this ring thing.
Just can't not make a lord of the ring's reference.
The reMarkable's replacement tips had a cool thing
where there was a little slider
in here to help you remove the tip on the
the existing tip installed on your stylists.
I don't know how I have to get this out.
Just pull.
Is there such a thing on here?
Is that what this is for?
Oh I put it in pinch, ha, metal.
I guess I can't just stab it
on like I could with a reMarkable setup.
You just put it in like this.
There we go.
Pen tricks.
Yeah I can't do them.
What else?
Is there anything else in there?
Nope, you got a little charger here.
Another charger.
It's USB A to C and there's a C charging port, right?
Hmm.
Speaking of there's a button over here.
Is this, that's like the on, yeah
that's the lock sort of button.
Kind of weird to have the charger.
Is it weird to have the charger over there?
It's kind of sticking out the bottom if you go
in landscape mode, but I feel like the default
would be portrait so maybe it would be over there.
But I can see why they would want everything
on the same side.
But that's the engineer's problem.
That shouldn't be my problem.
Yeah, this is clearly the default.
Look at, there's the logo.
I don't know, it doesn't really matter
cuz you charge these so seldom they advertise the battery
as lasting weeks.
It depends if you're just reading or writing.
Depends if you have wifi on or off.
But I mean I have had times where I'm reading
with this thing plugged in cause
like you just don't use it for a month
then you want to go read on your lunch break or something.
I think it's more forgivable than on a phone
or even an a tablet like an iPad or an Android tablet.
But because you just plug in
so seldom with these, also has these little feet
which is kind of weird.
They're not really in the way
of your fingers when you're holding it
in any kind of reasonable way.
Even if I put it into my palm
I just can't feel it makes it non-slip
on the table and there's no rocking
and it's not getting scuff up the back.
So I guess they're appreciated.
I wonder, I feel like
someone fought for those to be on here.
Other people are like
you're crazy but we'll let you have this one.
It's very thin.
I would say it's like less than a quarter inch thick.
It's definitely, it has a thicker kind
of spine on this one side.
Seems like that's a kind
of cool place to hold it, but it actually
might make it harder to change to turn pages.
We'll try that in a little bit.
Definitely gonna be bigger than your typical cheapo tablet.
So you know
if you got bad eyesight you can really get in the zone here.
Let's turn it on.
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All right, let's start with notebooks.
That's the difference with these, right?
So by tapping the plus icon, where's that up here?
You can also add folders to keep your notebooks organized
and your notes.
Your notes can be multiple pages.
Okay, so templates, you got blank, you got regular lined.
There's different graphing people.
Oh that's like a spreadsheet one.
Interesting, I'm gonna go with this big fat.
Learn how to write, take notes
on your Kindle to turn the page.
Swipe anywhere
or use the pointer tool to tap the sides of the screen.
Okay, so the, just like other e-readers
the screen is divided into regions and so tapping
like this third will like turn the page that way.
Tapping this one, turn it that way.
Writing tools.
There's three writing tools.
There's just pen, highlighter and eraser
but there are different sizes
or girths if you will, of the pens.
Undo and redo very standard stuff.
Can I just swipe new page?
See my little, my little thing went away.
Whoop, we're back.
And if I hit my pen, do I get different?
There we go.
Five gradations.
Let's go fine.
'Cuz you are so fine.
I don't know why I wrote that.
Speed-wise it feels pretty good.
I remember when I used the reMarkable, when you draw a line
like that and lift off, you can see your stroke complete
once you've already lifted off the page.
The latency wasn't improved for reMarkable 2.
There is still some bit of a lag
but I think that this screen is probably a bit clearer.
It's the same clarity that you see
on the other entries in the lineup.
It's about 300 PPI.
Let's see what I can do with shading though, because
on the reMarkable, the tip understands it when it's tilted
and will kind of draw a little differently.
No, that is like the exact same stroke.
It doesn't matter.
I, oh, do I have an eraser on here?
Heck yeah.
It shows you.
Is that like a preview of erasing?
You can see what's going to be erased
and then it like actually erases after.
See how the lines
of the page are more visible after I lift off?
Is that a feature or a bug?
It's kind of bizarre.
I wanna check out the how light you can draw
because that was one of the things on reMarkable.
You couldn't do a very very light stroke
without it cutting out.
Being like a dotted line.
Yeah, you kind of get, there's a limit.
You can see that it's like becoming a broken line
or it's just not even doing anything right now.
I'm just gliding on the glass.
I don't seem to be able to do any kind
of like different lightness or like strength of shading.
But I guess that's
I guess that's not what their target is for this.
They just want you to be able to write little
construction layouts and quick math notes and stuff.
Now where am I supposed to put this pen?
I think there's a magnetic side somewhere.
There it is.
That's on there pretty good to a decent degree.
The cool thing about this pen,
you don't need to charge it at all.
How does that work?
Whoa, there's a dark mode.
What does that look like?
Okay, that's cool.
It's kind of just the photo negative.
I appreciate that there are 16 different gradations of
of gray levels on this tablet.
So that actually makes it useful
for not just reading books but you can read comic books
cuz there's gonna be some gray scale there.
Obviously it's not color
but it definitely makes it more feature rich and usable.
Let's see if this button is worth $30 click.
What am I short cutting to?
I'm still not highlighting.
Do I have to map it or something?
One thing that's cool but this screen is you
can actually change the color temperature of it
which is something they have on their other Kindle
like paper whites and stuff.
So you can go from a cool blue all the way to like orange
which is nice if you're reading in bed, which you should do.
It's terrific.
You're not supposed to do that though
but you can if it's orange, right.
And unlike the cheapest e-readers that I always
get that rely on me having a light turned on
this actually has LEDs underneath.
I believe there's 32 of them under the screen.
So because it's e ink
it can use this completely without the LEDs being on.
But with those LEDs you can read in the dark
and you can adjust the brightness to there's zero
and can ooh up to 24
which would probably be too bright for my bedroom.
The thing that's cool is
that you don't need like a super amount
of brightness to be able to read in a
in a sunny outdoor environment because reflective screens
like e-reader screens, even without LEDs
they worked great in those environments.
So the brightness is just a bonus.
Like the other Kindles
they have like a matte anti glare kind of finish.
Not much to say about that.
This is quite satisfying.
What have I drawn?
What is that?
Is it a box?
Is it a book?
Is it pointing towards you or away from you?
No one knows pen shortcuts.
The defaults looks zero.
Like the default's nothing or no
it says it's highlighter but I couldn't get that working.
Oh, you can shortcut tool to a sticky note.
So that's for when you're reading books and you want to
I don't think I wanna test this in a second.
I don't think you can just mark up books and PDFs and stuff
but you can add sticky notes to them.
- [Cameraman] PDFs.
- Oh what the, that's the
I think that's the highlighter.
It's not that you toggle to it, you hold it down to switch
to it and then release to go back to your other pen.
That's what's going on.
It's kind of nice though.
I guess that's kind of fewer actions.
Oh wow.
Now it's in left-handed mode
and it'll also flip like, well I guess rotate.
No, it rotated this way before.
Okay, it'll flip that way, but not this way.
Fair enough I guess,
let's read some books.
It has all the Kindle functionality for getting documents
onto it and you can upgrade the storage
from 16 gigabytes to 64, which is just huge for documents.
Tap on the the page to place your note exactly
where you want it.
I rarely drank.
Yeah, right.
Oh, handwritten.
What's text?
Oh, I can just go like this.
It's kind of asymmetrical
because it has a wider bezel in this hand.
So it kind of
it's offsetting where you're holding that keyword
which is a little bit weird.
What if I flip it this way?
Will it rotate now?
It only rotates 180.
So frustrating.
I think I honestly would be just better off going like this.
Can you see what I wrote?
They don't have auto correct.
They don't have auto corrected, I guess.
Brutal, so that's the sticky notes.
What if I use my shortcut
and then tap or I hold it while tapping.
There it is.
Tap it while hold.
What I highlighting though
can't I take my highlighter and highlight it on the page?
That sucks.
That's so stupid.
I could see that there would be technical hurdles
that you would have to accomplish
if you wanted to be able to just mark up
any document that you brought onto your Kindle.
Like they might have to make a completely new file, like a
like kind of a daughter file to save
alongside of your books and stuff like that.
I could see why you wouldn't be able to mark up
that file directly in it.
Like Steve Jobs would've figured that
out and they didn't figure that out.
So it feels kind of like an incomplete product.
You would expect that like the purest form
of a Kindle you can write on would be highlighting stuff
like this instead of swiping writing in the margins.
Like the sticky notes is cool too
but I wanna be able to mark this
up like a pen on a damn book and I can't, not only that
you can't even use sticky notes
on manga, magazines or newspapers.
So at that point you just have a big Kindle.
You know what would be nice if you could map the back button
to the pen because it's kind of annoying to have to swipe
down or go back that way.
What other settings do we have in here?
Warmth schedule.
So you can actually change
whether the LED is blue or orange according to a schedule.
So I'll turn that on.
You can set time yourself or you can have it time
to the sunrise and stuff.
I guess the schedule you're setting is just
like what time do you want this brightness to be active?
Oh but then you need to allow a location access.
Yeah, that makes sense.
There couldn't just be a dropdown menu.
I just pick Vancouver like time zone or something.
Nope, we'll just take the data instead.
Display size.
There's just two options.
Big and less big.
I thought there would be like a sliding scale.
It's not that much bigger, but yeah, send me a PDF
and we'll see if I can write on it using the email below.
That's what you want.
Okay, can I mark this up?
Yes, I can write on a pdf.
Thank God.
And can I write a sticky note on this?
I can highlight, I can erase.
I don't know what this hand is still.
I think we figured out what the hand tool is.
So if I'm in here writing, I'm just drawing.
But if I turn my pen into a hand and I swipe
now I've turned the page and if I tab up here
now I get that.
So turn your pen into a finger.
Another way to do this is to go like this
Or if you got two of these
which is quite a privilege, go that way.
This doesn't even work.
Oh okay.
That's page one.
I think it's a decent product.
I think that the reMarkable 2 is superior in some ways
though it is older, it looks just as cool in premium.
It looks a little different than this.
It has some features that this could stand to gain.
Although you are up against Amazon's, you know
the whole Kindle ecosystem and you know, buying a book
on Amazon and just sending it directly to your Kindle
all that stuff is really cool.
But in terms of the drawing
I don't think they're that different
and reMarkable has some drawing features that are cool
and it's like 20 bucks cheaper at this point
if you get the basic pen on that one.
But being a newer device, this seems a bit faster
although it's not that fast
and it has more storage, which is cool.
I don't think this is too unruly
or unreasonable to use as an e-reader.
The reMarkable's probably, I think it seems a little bigger
and it is kind of stupider as an e-reader
you could still easily take this along
in your bag or in your suitcase on a trip
but you're not gonna put it in like a jacket pocket
or easily have it on like on the bus or something like that.
But if you have any bag with you, you're good to go.
Yeah, one thing I wanted to try though is what the turning
of pages is like when you're holding it in your left hand.
'Cause it seems like it affords left hand holding.
Since it's thicker
on this side that's going forward, I think that's okay.
Unless you're the type who likes to tap, but why not swipe?
It's a world of swipes we live in.
When you go from the $300 for the reMarkable 2
plus at least $80 for the pen, you got 380.
Whereas the opening price for this is 340.
Now this is kind of a good fidget toy.
So who should get this?
Should you get this instead of a cheap Android tablet?
Really depends on your focus.
If you really want it for the note taking
and the reading probably would just go for this.
You can do those things on a Android tablet
and you can do a lot more as well.
But they're not gonna be as sleek
they're not gonna have the battery life
you're not gonna be able to read outdoors as easily.
So I don't think this is a bad product by any means.
So thanks for watching guys.
If you like this video, maybe check out
the reMarkable coverage we've done
and we also had Sarah host a video
on one of these e-screen drawables too.
So check that one out.