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Price: $549.99
(as of Feb 11, 2026 03:36:06 UTC – Details)
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All-new Kindle Scribe – Features an 11” glare-free display with front light, built-in notebook, AI tools, and support for popular cloud services.
Feels just like paper – Textured surface and ultra-fast responsiveness for a natural writing experience. Included Premium Pen requires no charging.
Thinner, lighter, faster – At just 5.4mm thin and 400g light, it’s redesigned for comfort, with a larger 11” display, and 40% faster writing and page turns.
Just right in any light – The display automatically adapts brightness to your lighting conditions. Adjust the warmth for greater comfort…, 4.5,
Reviewer: Sally
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Top of class
Review: I’ve purchased this black and white Scribe and the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, and after writing hundreds of pages on them, I love both. I’ve reviewed the Colorsoft on the Colorsoft page. This is a general review of the B&W, but I’ll try to write this review particularly for people who are trying to decide between the two. TLDR: The B&W is a better device for what it does. I still prefer the Colorsoft.I rated the Colorsoft 4 stars, and I would rate this one 5. The black and white model is pretty close to perfect for what I want, which is to be able to read and write on a device with simplicity. I don’t have complex use cases – the document/folder structure is intuitively easy to use. There’s no learning curve – writing on the new kindle scribe is as easy as reading on it.The writing feel is EXCELLENT, and the screen is crisp. The brightness and amber-ness are very similar to my Kindle Oasis and much easier on the eyes than the lighting on a Kindle basic. Key point: writing is noticeably more paper-like on the B&W than on the Colorsoft. There’s no tablet-feel on this, and there is a little bit of a tablet feel on the Colorsoft – this is really hard to articulate, but it just feels a little better to write on the B&W. Having said that, I’ve written literally hundreds of pages on the Colorsoft and really, really enjoy that, too. If I’d never tried the B&W, I wouldn’t notice any issue at all.This isn’t a device for the complex “workflows” you see on YouTube or Reddit, but documents are searchable, and the organizing structures make sense. I’ve compared handwriting recognition on the Kindle to that of couple of major LLMs, and the Kindle handwriting recognition is better – it’s REALLY good. It’s wild when you’re searching your kindle for something and references in your own handwritten documents show up, too. Whispersync means your documents are regularly backed up – not as quickly as Google Docs, but much more quickly than I expected. And it’s easy to email or upload PDFs for extra backup or use on a laptop.Pen choices are great. Template choices are terrible, but I already ranted about that on my Colorsoft review. There’s a LOT of room for growth on the templates, but they are generally less annoying on the B&W than on the Colorsoft.Flashing is minimal – if flashing doesn’t bother you on your existing Kindle, it won’t bother you on the B&W scribe. By contrast, when I tested the Remarkable Pro products, the flashing was really distracting to me – as a result, I found them difficult to use. The Colorsoft flashes when you use the shader, so I just avoid that. Ghosting is also really minimal on both devices – occasionally there’s a little ghosting but it’s rare and not distracting.I read a lot and I write a lot – for work, for personal use, and just for general to do lists, notes, and reminders. Both the B&W and the Colorsoft are fantastic for both. When I got my first kindle, I was amazed at how great it was to be able to read at 3 am without waking anyone up – and have an entire library of books at hand. I’m equally amazed at how great it is to be able to write at 3 am without waking my spouse up – and have a library of my own notebooks at hand. Similarly, I have traveled three times with this device, and I love having the books I am currently reading and the notebooks I am currently writing in with me.And I wouldn’t have said “distraction free” matters to me … except that it turns out that it does. I’ve written two academic papers and part of a book chapter on this, and if I were on my laptop, I would have been looking up references, checking email, maybe running some of the text through an LLM. I’m so SO much better at just getting complex ideas down on “paper” with this than I am on my laptop. There’s stuff to fill in later – I have to look up refs, gather up images, etc – and certainly do editing that is easier to do on a laptop than on the scribe – but it’s astonishing to me how much I can get done when nothing else is competing for my attention. And while there are software updates that would be helpful (better templates, ways to put links within docs, a way to keep a book open on one side of the device with a notebook open on the other side, and I could go on!), there are workarounds that are good enough. You can take notes in the side margin of a book and copy/paste those notes to a notebook – it’s clunky but doable.The B&W has a crisper screen, better writing feel, and better lighting. Black and white drawings on the B&W are also really excellent. But I’m choosing the Colorsoft. As someone who has been using a Kindle since they had keyboards, I did not think I cared one bit about color. But I really love seeing my library in color – I’ve accumulated thousands of books over the years, and “shopping the closet” of my kindle is more fun when the covers are in color. And I also find color really useful as an organizing tool inside my own notebooks – there’s no flashing with the highlighting tool, so I use that a lot. I like having color covers on my own notebooks. Book highlights can be sorted by color. Color ends up being really useful and just … fun. So I’m keeping the colorsoft.Before the new scribes were announced, I spent months trying to choose an e-ink writer that would match the experience of reading on a Kindle, but for writing. I watched endless YouTube videos, read tons of Reddit opinions, tried as many devices as I could get my hands on, and had at least five different devices in various carts. At the end of the day, I just wanted a backlit e-ink device for reading and writing – one that was easy to use, reasonably secure, and easy enough to write on that I would quickly lose awareness that I was writing on a device, and just be able to sink into my writing. Both the Colorsoft and the B&W check those boxes with room to spare, and the B&W knocks them out of the park.If you don’t care about color, get the B&W. If you want to prioritize writing feel, get the B&W. If you think color will add value, get the Colorsoft. But both are really excellent devices for reading and writing.For that purpose, both new Scribes are just
Reviewer: Michael W. Jacobson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best E-Reader on the market!…and you can write, too!
Review: I love tech, but the new Kindle Scribe is actually the first item I ever bought on the release day (okay, I ordered it on release day; took a few days to arrive).This is an exceptional E-Reader, and I’ve been a Kindle aficionado from the early days. I had the last model Scribe just for the larger reading screen; at first I didn’t care about the notetaking capabilities, but soon found it indespesible.So why is the new model worth the upgrade? For starters, a larger screen. And if size isn’t everything, the new display is phenomenal. The front lighting is even, adjusts (if you set it to) to the ambient light in your room, making it perfect for bright or night. The e-ink experience is better than ever; crisper, clearer, more like reading off an actual page than ever before!It’s also faster, whether turning pages, or skipping around the home, library, or workspace screens (and kudos to the new layout of the homescreen, which organizes everything beautifully and includes a quick notes to instantly jot down a thought.)The writing experience is even better than before, with virtually no noticeable lag in pen strokes and a more paper-like feel to writing. The AI has 100% perfectly transcribes my normally illegible penmanship with no mistakes so far (pause for a moment of silence for the Apple Newton). The premium pen it comes with attaches to the side very strongly (I can pick the whole device up just holding the attached pen), and writes smoothly. I find myself writing more just because it’s an enjoyable experience! Haven’t figured out the cure for writer’s cramp, yet.The device gives you more screen space while being lighter overall, so it’s very comfortable to hold and transport. Plus, it’s a small thing, but I LOVE the thinner, uniform, light colored frame. The previous Scribe had the one side that was thicker; maybe for holding, but it just always seemed askew. It’s funny but sometimes the aesthetics of a piece of tech adds as much to the joy of using it as the tech itself.In planning for my upgrade, I asked Alexa+ if I should go with this monochrome version or the Colorsoft. She suggested since I read on it more than write, this is the one that would give the best reading experience, explaining that it gave crisper text and a more paper-like visual experience than the Colorsoft. I haven’t tried the Colorsoft, but I can say, the joyful reading experience with this model leaves me no regrets.If you’re in the market for a terrific E-Reader that also gives a great notetaking experience (and not worried as much about coloring, sketching or doodling), this is the best you can get. If you already have the prior Kindle Scribe, you won’t regret the upgrade!
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent device
Review: For me, I haven’t had hands on any other version of the scribe except the OG. What a nice upgrade in terms of sharpness, build, writing feel, software. Overall the device has been excellent. Great battery life, auto adjusting light and warmth works quickly and very well, excellent for reading and the writing feel and features are really really solid. Thin, light and well made. Highly recommend!
Reviewer: Cuniac
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Misaligned display & uneven yellow backlight
Review: The device it self has a lot to offer and it maybe the best kindle I have ever seen. However, this unit had two glaring issues that caused me to return it. The first is the screen was misaligned resulting in noticeable light coming through the right side of the screen in dark mode that was very distracting. The other was the yellow backlight when turned up past 18 left the left side of the display noticeable darker yellow than the right. For a device at this price point this feels completely unacceptable for either one of these issues to exist let alone both. I am not sure if my unit is just very defective and I may consider ordering another, but I have seen other points on Reddit saying kind of the same things so at the very least I think there are some big QA issues going on with this product.
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