Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing • Hacker News Board

Re: Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing

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Post by criddell » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 2:48 PM UTC

francogt wrote: post #118

criddell wrote: post #69

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Is it not this: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1288294-REG/sony_dpta...

Those are replacement tips. I broke the head, leaving the shaft inside the pen and thats what I'm not able to get out. It seems to be a common problem if you look at the reviews: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0713VCDPY

You can buy them from Amazon Japan (and they will ship to the US):

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Sony-DPTA-RS1-Stylus-Pen-Cores...

Re: Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing

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Post by andrei_says_ » Fri, Sep 30, 2022, 3:57 PM UTC

neves wrote: post #155

andrei_says_ wrote: post #78

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I also own a boox - a four year old device. Supports epub, pdf etc. out of the box. The Kindle app works flawlessly. The O’Reilly learning app works great, too. Drawing functionality is as good as the current state of eink screens. Pretty sure I wouldn’t want to lock myself into the Amazon content ecosystem ever again.

What is the device's DPI?

300dpi. Screen looks great.

There’s a new version which uses a color eink screen. I’m speaking of the greyscale one.

Re: Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing

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Post by hboon » Sat, Oct 01, 2022, 3:14 PM UTC

zwaps wrote: post #21

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Everyone thinks they want to read a PDF on something that isn't a desktop or an A4 sheet of paper, and then they try it and realize that there are basically no PDFs that are laid-out in a way that could be feasibly consumed on such a device. In addition to that, writing heuristics to try and make it possible to unify the experience of reading any arbitrary PDF is such a quagmire/shitshow that basically no one is will…

I have read a gazillion of pages of PDFs on my Remarkable over the years, fwiw

Do you sometimes encounter text that is too small? If so, do you fix it?

Re: Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing

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Post by nharada » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 1:39 AM UTC

MerelyMortal wrote: post #97

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My 10 year old DX just kicked the bucket, I'm actually really bummed about it.

I have a pristine, barely used DX with cover (Kindle DX Graphite?), maybe I should throw it on eBay? There are already a couple of listings if you're so inclined.

I ended up grabbing a used Oasis, since my primary use case of reading papers has declined outside of grad school (and all of today's papers assume you have color printing). At this point I think I'm just going to use it for reading books.

Re: Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing

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Post by AlanYx » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 3:17 PM UTC

fomine3 wrote: post #158

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I tried to look it up - https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=fujitsu+quaderno+a4 - and only the smaller A5 seems to be available

Some say Papyr is same device as Quaderno (and Sony's one), let's check out

Papyr is based on the same hardware as the Quaderno Gen 1. The hardware platform is licensed from a company called Linfiny. It's been rumored for a while that Quirklogic will release a Papyr based on the Gen 2 hardware, but it hasn't materialized yet. The Gen 2 hardware is worth it if you're doing a lot of handwriting because the Wacom digitizer is way, way better, but Papyr does have some additional software that could tip the scales in its direction.

Re: Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is an E Ink tablet for reading and writing

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Post by WillAdams » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 7:16 PM UTC

bern4444 wrote: post #134

I was just looking at the eink device market a few days ago. I have a dream e-ink product in mind. It's really just an iPad with a color e ink screen. Boox seems to be the leader with tons of different products (looked at remarkable, supernote, kobo, Boox). I wish apple would make an e ink tablet - I would buy that in an instant. I want to be able to mark up anything and share it - epub, pdf, mobi, etc. I'd also love…

I wish someone would make a tablet w/ a transflective display to replace my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4110 --- currently rocking a Samsung Galaxy Book 12, but I've had to roll back to Windows build 1703 twice now, and it's simply not usable in bright, direct sunlight.

Pre-ordered a Kindle Scribe, so I'll have 3 devices w/ Wacom styluses (also a Galaxy Note 10+ and the afore-mentioned Galaxy Book 12), one of which will work in direct sunlight.

Surprised that there wasn't any mention of the availability of maps for the Kindle Scribe.

While I'd like to see nifty features such as:

- use as a second display - use as a graphics tablet (while being used as a second display)

so long as it works as:

- an ebook reader - one can take notes - one can write out documents and transfer them (and notes) to a desktop (w/ or w/o handwriting recognition, hopefully w/)

I should be fine.

That said, I'd like to see Nebo.app or some equivalent for the Kindle Scribe.

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Post by WillAdams » Mon, Oct 03, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

bitL wrote: post #115

A4 is the smallest tablet size that is practical for writing. Not sure how many people will keep using Scribe when they realize it.

I've done fine writing on a lot of tablets, all of which are smaller than A4 (or letter) --- I'd love to see a device that size, but thus far have managed on what has been affordably available.