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AI on Amazon’s second-generation Kindle Scribe summarizes my handwritten review of the device. See full text below. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)
Amazon is releasing its second-generation Kindle Scribe this morning, and I’ve been putting a review unit to the test for the past few days, comparing it to the original Scribe and the competing reMarkable 2, both of which I use regularly.
One of the new features is an AI summarization tool, so I wrote my review in the Kindle Scribe and had the device generate a recap from eight pages of handwritten notes. It turned out well enough that I feel comfortable pasting the AI-produced text below as an overview of my impressions, including pros, cons, and key takeaways.
This is unedited, as forwarded to my email as text from the device, so you can see how the text came through (including punctuation mistakes and other quirks). I summarized the overall eight pages of notes first, then did a separate AI summary of the key points from a subset of my two handwritten pages of takeaways.
Kindle Scribe Review: Pros and cons
Enjoying the new active canvas feature that allows writing directly within the flow of a book and seeing all notes at once in the Annotation Notebook view
At summarization feature is a positive change that affects how the user thinks about and links their notes
Battery life is amazing. lasting over 70% charge after several days of heavy use
The basic form factor hasn’t changed from the 2022 Scribe. allowing reuse of the same case
Kindle integration provides a premier ebook experience with easy book previews. purchases. and access to word definitionscons:
Difficulty distinguishing the new pen from the original. with similar weight distribution and feel
Inadvertent triggering of the highlighter due to the pen button placement
Occasional lag and pronounced screen refresh when using the lasso select tool
Suboptimal placement of the toolbar icon
Limited file management capabilities compared to the Remarkable device
Dissatisfaction with the script font choices. preferring more traditional typefaces
Overall, the Kindle scribe offers useful features and a great reading experience, but has some minor annoyances and limitations in file management that diminish the overall experience
-Key points:-The scribe has useful features. but also some minor annoyances and limitations.-The scribe’s integration with Kindle is a key differentiator.-For reading books and writing. the scribe is the best choice. but for note-taking. the Remarkable may be a better option.-The Scribe costs $399 with a premium marker that includes an eraser.-Owners of the 2022 Scribe can get software updates for active canvas and Al summarization features.
That’s the end of the AI summary. It’s a pretty good overview of my thoughts. Going through this process made me realize how the AI basically fixes the problem of suboptimal optical character recognition on quirky handwriting. By comparison, the Kindle’s straight OCR translation of my notes is unreadable at times.
See separate PDFs of the AI summary and my original notes below.
Kindle Scribe AI summary review by GeekWire on Scribd
Handwritten Review by GeekWire on Scribd
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