Amazon refreshes its monochrome Kindle lineup, including a bigger Paperwhite
Amazon is shaking up its entire Kindle e-reader lineup today, at least by the slow-moving and relatively placid standards of the e-reader market. The company is announcing a major refresh to the pen-centric Kindle Scribe, a screen-size bump for the mainstream Kindle Paperwhite, and small tweaks to the basic Kindle-a rare simultaneous refresh for devices that the company usually updates one or two at a time.
In addition to the monochrome e-readers, Amazon introduced its first color e-reader today. The new Kindle Colorsoft, covered in more detail here, looks almost identical to the new Paperwhite and launches on October 30 for $279.99.
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The new Kindle Scribe in the gray "Tungsten" finish. Credit: Amazon 
A new "metallic jade" finish. Credit: Amazon 
The "Active Canvas" note-taking feature, which will display notes inline and reflow text around them. Credit: Amazon 
Covers for the Kindle Scribe. Credit: Amazon Going from most to least significant: The new Kindle Scribe's upgrades are mostly meant to make it a more paper-like writing experience. It has a new textured screen coating, a white screen bezel that blends into the screen (we've also seen this deployed in tablets like the reMarkable Paper Pro), and a tweaked Premium Pen accessory with a "new soft-tipped eraser" that feels more like an actual pencil eraser.