Getting to Know the Kindle Scribe

Hi Everyone,
Please enjoy this exploration of the Kindle Scribe and some of its best and worst features.
Getting to know this device has been a journey with more than a few interesting bumps along the way…
Enjoy!
0:00 Intro
0:50 Nature of this Video
1:05 An Experiential Unboxing
3:14 Device Setup
4:17 Getting to know the Kindle Scribe
5:02 Navigating the Device
9:29 High Resolution Screen
10:35 Frontlight
11:35 PWM or No PWM?
12:27 E-book Experience
15:17 Writing Experience
17:44 Notebook
18:21 PDFs…it’s complicated
19:13 Incomp-Apple-ble?

[@whiteglitch]

I dream one day will be an open source , ad-free, easy to install, operating system for the scribe !

[@mordielkayam9997]

Well done! The review is thorough, honest and extensive.

[@theinktelligent]

Thank you very much!

[@oscarfuentes7866]

For note taking, which one do you think will make a better job. The Scribe or the Remarkable 2?

[@theinktelligent]

Hello,
Between the two devices, I think I have to recommend the Remarkable 2 for a note-taking focused use case.
Here are my main reasons for saying this:
-The writing feel on the Kindle Scribe is quite good, but I personally feel the Remarkable 2 does feel a bit closer to the sensation of writing on paper.
-If you have any concerns over potential data privacy and want to feel more secure that no one is “data mining” or “analyzing” what you write, I think the Remarkable 2 also wins here. At least (as of writing this), the Remarkable 2 DOES technically allow you to use the device pretty much entirely off line if you want to (with a few less options though).
There are a few more steps involved to use USB only transfer of files on and off the device
( support.remarkable.com/s/article/Exporting-files ) and you don’t get the option to export in any other format besides PDF last time I checked. (As far as I recall, you need to export the document via internet on the Remarkable 2 to get SVG and PNG export file type options).
However, even with these restrictions, at least there is a supported way to put files on the device via USB cord, write on them, and take them off via USB cord…which the Kindle Scribe refuses to allow at the moment (aside from screenshots).
-Although the Remarkable 2 does not have an e-book store and can only read limited file types, for note-taking I think it has slightly more advanced and varied features than the Kindle Scribe (including layer support). Here is a link to a quick video I made a while back on some of these features: czcams.com/video/qTBgLlTYJpY/video.html
Hopes this helps.

[@dietwald]

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