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

The Kindle Scribe is as much a notebook as a book reader. | Image: Amazon

The newest Kindle is the first truly new Kindle in years. It's called the Kindle Scribe, and it's both a reading device and a writing one. With a 10.2-inch E Ink screen, a stylus that attaches to the side of the device, and a bunch of new software, the $339.99 Scribe is trying to be as much a tablet as an ebook reader. It's available for preorder today, and Amazon promises it'll be out before the holidays. It's also the kind of device people have been waiting for Amazon to make for years.

Kevin Keith, a vice president of product and marketing at Amazon, says the display is the reason the Scribe took so long. This is the first 300ppi, front-lit display that has an adjustable warm light," he says over Amazon's Chime conferencing system,...

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