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Amazon Launches Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, a $629 11-Inch Color E‑Paper Writing Kindle

Reviewers question the value given limited annotation features, early‑stage AI, plus a higher price.

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review unit in action
The expandable margins and Active Canvas can both be seen here. Note how the annotation I made directly on the page appears outside of the text and in its own little box.
A tablet and stylus next to each other
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Overview

  • The new model features an 11-inch Colorsoft e‑paper display with color highlights and sketches, bundled with a thicker Kindle Premium Pen that includes an eraser end and a customizable shortcut button.
  • Hardware upgrades include a new quad‑core chip, faster screen response, an improved front light, and 32GB or 64GB storage options in a slimmer, lighter chassis.
  • Amazon’s annotation system remains unchanged, relying on Active Canvas, sticky notes, and expanded margins rather than true in‑text margin writing, which reviewers find limiting versus rivals.
  • AI tools such as handwriting recognition, summarization, and an AI‑powered notebook search show promise but produced occasional errors in testing, with features like Ask This Book and Story So Far not yet available.
  • Amazon also rolled out a third‑generation non‑color Scribe, with the lineup now spanning an entry model without a front light at $430, a front‑lit monochrome version at $500, and the Colorsoft at $629; Amazon rates the Colorsoft at about eight weeks of reading per charge.