Amazon Kindle Scribe
Given Amazon’s web services and cloud servers power a big chunk of the internet, we were ultimately let down by Amazon’s first stylus-compatible e-note device: the Scribe. The hardware is actually very good, with the pen on paper experience nearly perfectly recreated electronically. The device also has a lovely 10.2-inch, 300 PPI screen that E Ink created specifically for the Scribe. Where the Scribe disappointed was when it came to making documents—either notebooks, digital sticky notes on ebooks, or marked up PDFs—easily available on other devices. Figuring out how to get your own documents on and off the Scribe can be confusing and often requires documents to be emailed all over the place. With a company like Amazon behind it, the experience should be much smoother, and hopefully a few software updates from now, it will be.
– Andrew Liszewski
