"This invention is my best purchase in a long time"(Image: Amazon)

Amazon knocks £100 off the Kindle Scribe for Prime Big Deals Day

In the latest Amazon Prime Big Deal Days deal the Kindle Scribe is now £100 off

08 Oct 2024, 19:00 by Jada Jones · Liverpool Echo

Amazon knocks £100 off the Kindle Scribe for Prime Big Deals Day

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Amazon have launched their latest sale with their new Prime Big Deal Days sales, it's seen prices slashes across all areas from booze to beauty to tech. Most of the Kindle options have held steady at the usual price but the Kindle Scribe has had £100 knocked off.

The Scribe is the only model that includes a digital notebook and pen - making it a more budget-friendly rival to reMarkable that also has a built-in e-reader function. You can convert handwritten notes to text, both on the built-in notebook and in any books you read.

You can import PDF documents to mark up as well as Microsoft Word sticky notes. Like with all Kindle models, it has a paper-like screen - it's actually the world's first 10.2" 300 ppi glare-free, front-lit display. As well as having all of the perks of a built-in notebook and pen to handwrite notes you can easily read your entire Kindle library on it.

It's pulled in an average of 4.4 out of 5 across 1,173 global ratings. One shopper said: "I already have a Kindle Signature but some of the books I read have tables and illustrations that are hard to read on a small screen. Kindle Scribe is fabulous and I have become quite a bookworm! The notebook features are great. It feels much more like a real notebook and it is less burdensome than my iPad Pro. The responsiveness is just right. I got the fabric case and that is good too. Read my book with the Kindle upright on a table while munching my lunch! It is simple but effective.

"Battery life is excellent - got through my holiday on a single charge, despite being a bookworm. The only disadvantage is that it doesn’t properly fit my shoulder bag due the wide bezel on one side. (It does mean fewer fingerprints on the screen though, and probably allowed for a bigger battery.) That is where the Signature keeps its niche. I also go back to my Signature in the car when I’m a passenger and it lives in my bag when I need a read.

"I would thoroughly recommend the Scribe. It is especially good for more technical reads where there are diagrams and tables. It is a very good Kindle and the premium pen is great."

The Kindle doubles as a notebook(Image: Amazon)

A second wrote: "Really enjoying my Kindle Scribe. I use it primarily to take and organise my notes for work, which it does very well. I’m normally the sort of person who will have 2/3 notebooks on the go at any time and have no way of cataloguing and referring back to them when I need them but this has really helped me. The writing experience is really smooth and I’m able to annotate pdfs which has been really useful. I’m also making full use of the reading facility which has been really good and cut down on my screen-watching time before bed.

"The only downside is I wish the integration software was slightly better, it’s a bit of a manual process having to share to the Kindle and then emailing it back before downloading a PDF, also the web browser should just be removed, it’s not useful and can’t load up most modern webpages. Still, I didn’t buy it to browse the web and on the whole, it’s been a fantastic purchase."

The most obvious rival to the Scribe is the Kobo Elipsa which is similarly an e-reader with the ability to make notes on eBooks and PDFs alongside notebooks - however, it's currently £299.99 making it more than the Kindle Scribe.

The Kindle Scribe starts at £229 for the most basic offering which has 16GB of data and a basic pen - the price goes up for more storage and if you want the premium pen. You can also enjoy three months of Kindle Unlimited for free.

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