My high school English teacher drilled into my head that there was a proper way to read a book: \u201cIf you\u2019ve read a book without taking notes, you\u2019ve not read it at all.\u201d She had a point \u2014 taking notes helps me engage with the material in a much deeper way than just reading.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Nowadays, I am incapable of reading anything without writing down my thoughts, and my Notes app is a cluttered disaster as a result. But it\u2019s distracting to pull up a separate app every time I want to jot down a note and hard to find those notes later. The Kindle Scribe promises to fix that with its note-taking capabilities, making it easy to scribble in the margins like I do on paper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The original Kindle Scribe<\/a>, from 2022, missed the mark for me. Here, finally, was a Kindle you could take notes with, yet you couldn\u2019t write directly on ebook pages. Instead, you could only annotate disappearing sticky notes \u2014 and only on some Kindle titles. I quickly gave up on the Scribe, and for the past year or so I\u2019ve mainly used the Kobo Elipsa 2E<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Since then, the Kindle Scribe has come a long way. Now with the second-generation e-reader, you can finally jot notes directly onto a wider range of Kindle ebook pages, convert handwriting to text, and even summarize notes in its built-in notebooks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But the Scribe has more and better competition than ever. And with a price bump, it needs to nail these new features to make it worth $399.99. That\u2019s especially true given the original Kindle Scribe is still available for $60 less, and you can download all of these features onto it via Amazon\u2019s latest software update<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n