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

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

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Post by datalopers »

Aromasin wrote: post #6
outcoldman wrote: post #3

I guess it is time for me to upgrade my Kindle Oasis (1st gen I assume), which I never use to this Kindle Scribe, which I also probably never going to use. But the main issue with the Kindles was not being able to read PDF (technical books, technical articles), and I dreamed about the DX when it was available only in US, and I also did not have money to buy one. After I moved to US 13 years ago, the DX version was ou…

Wait... you can't read PDF's? This seems like insanity to me? Why would they not enable such a basic and fundamental feature?

It’s about as pleasant as reading a pdf on a phone. Yes, supports it, but you’re either constantly panning your viewframe or have superhuman vision.

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

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Post by criddell »

jelliclesfarm wrote: post #2

I will wait for 2-3rd generation before buying it. I bought kindle early at $400 before it became a brick and I can just use my tablet/phone anyways. Remarkable has failed me twice. I am on fence with e Ink tablets. Perhaps it’s not for me.

Both the Remarkable and the Scribe are only 10" devices. If you are going to read and markup PDFs, a 13" screen makes so much more sense because it's very close to letter/A4 size.

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

aaroninsf wrote: post #5

Quoted post unavailable.

dunno. I think when you present the "drawbacks" of monochrome e-ink, they start to sound like obvious advantages (low power, easy on the eyes, unreal battery life). It can't compare to a color LCD, but it doesn't have to.

Color e-ink makes the drawbacks of an e-ink display much more stark. It begs comparison and loses, badly.

Mark me down as a long-term color e-ink skeptic.

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Post by clint »

outcoldman wrote: post #3

I guess it is time for me to upgrade my Kindle Oasis (1st gen I assume), which I never use to this Kindle Scribe, which I also probably never going to use. But the main issue with the Kindles was not being able to read PDF (technical books, technical articles), and I dreamed about the DX when it was available only in US, and I also did not have money to buy one. After I moved to US 13 years ago, the DX version was ou…

I have never once wanted to read a PDF on my Kindle and I'm not entirely sure why anyone would. Mostly because reading PDFs on something like kindle would be a shit show (I assume this is entirely why they haven't added that functionality).

I've owned probably 10+ kindles, including the DX, and I think its honestly the bit of technology I used _the most_ outside of my iPhone.

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Post by clint »

Aromasin wrote: post #6
outcoldman wrote: post #3

I guess it is time for me to upgrade my Kindle Oasis (1st gen I assume), which I never use to this Kindle Scribe, which I also probably never going to use. But the main issue with the Kindles was not being able to read PDF (technical books, technical articles), and I dreamed about the DX when it was available only in US, and I also did not have money to buy one. After I moved to US 13 years ago, the DX version was ou…

Wait... you can't read PDF's? This seems like insanity to me? Why would they not enable such a basic and fundamental feature?

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 willing to step up and try to make it possible.

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Post by FalconSensei »

syntaxing wrote: post #17

For that prices, makes little sense to me why you wouldn’t buy a Kobo Eclipse instead.

Looking at it, seems like Scribe is $339 and Elipsa is $399.

Also, if you already have a huge Kindle library, makes little sense to change reader and lose it

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

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Post by desindol »

clint wrote: post #16
outcoldman wrote: post #3

I guess it is time for me to upgrade my Kindle Oasis (1st gen I assume), which I never use to this Kindle Scribe, which I also probably never going to use. But the main issue with the Kindles was not being able to read PDF (technical books, technical articles), and I dreamed about the DX when it was available only in US, and I also did not have money to buy one. After I moved to US 13 years ago, the DX version was ou…

I have never once wanted to read a PDF on my Kindle and I'm not entirely sure why anyone would. Mostly because reading PDFs on something like kindle would be a shit show (I assume this is entirely why they haven't added that functionality). I've owned probably 10+ kindles, including the DX, and I think its honestly the bit of technology I used _the most_ outside of my iPhone.

10 kindles? What happened to 9 of them?
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