r/kindlescribe

When I first got my Scribe, my hand would glide across it as I wrote left to right. In the last 1-2 weeks, this has no longer been happening, the skin on my hand now "catches" or sticks to the screen, which is making it really annoying to write on now.

I literally don't know what to do. I've tried various microfiber cloths. I have tried dampening the cloths. I've tried spraying a cloth with glasses cleaning solution. I have tried using different products on my hands. I'm actually concerned that maybe the stuff I'm trying could even make it worse.

I cannot be the only person who has had this problem. If you have too, please speak up!!!

NOTE: When I lightly touch the screen, there is no problem. It is only has a drag my hand across as I'm writing.

I am trying to decide between a Boox, Supernote, or Kindle Scribe.

The main capability I need is to convert my handwritten notes to text and upload that text to my Google Drive at work so that Claude has access to my work notes.

I have read that the newer versions of Kindle Scribe do connect with Google Drive. I just want to make sure that I would be able to upload text from my Kindle which is linked to my personal email and my google drive account at work which is linked to my work email.

If this is possible I would love to know. Thanks!

What are some amazing things you eventually discovered the SCS could do? Like is there a really inclusive user manual somewhere? I find little things whenever I use it but why doesn’t Amazon include all these uses/tips/tricks with the Scribe?

So I have been living with my Colorsoft and great enjoy it, but the one thing that I absolutely hate are the built in templates, mainly because I believe them to be too dark (like the dot page -- the dots are so flipping huge and dark that they interfere with my writing). Since Amazon isn't going to let us install our own, and since they seem to not have any desire to improve them, do you all just live inside of premade PDFs with a million pages in them?

I recently tried an AiPaper to try out and their templates are delightful and you can add to them (shocker).

So what are you guys doing for templates for things like better dot paper? I currently just write with a blank page always. Which is boring.

Hey All, so most of my books are actually not kindle format (they are pdf or epub). I use the ‘send to kindle’ website to get them on my kindle and my scribe.

Using that method, some of them are properly converted so that I can use the full functionality of the toolbar and reflowable text while some are not entirely converted (I can see the book cover in my library and I can write on top of them but no sticky notes and they do not reflow). For example, some PDFs are accessible on my kindle after sending them via ‘send to kindle’ but they are not reflowable while others are .

Does anybody know what causes one vs the other and how I can ensure they are all properly converted ?

My suspicion is that the ones that are not properly converted do not have proper meta data accessible when using send to kindle (so perhaps images turned to PDFs , etc ). But I’m not sure…

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks a a lot.

I tried to put on a screen protector for my Kindle Scribe but there were too many bubbles. I was wondering for all owners out there, how durable is the Kindle screen from scratches. I plan to write a lot of notes on my Kindle with the pen that comes with it. I'm afraid overtime, it will scratch and damage the screen. Thank you.

I was with my Kindle Scribe Colorsoft today in the park, and I kept thinking, it would have been better to use my "older" 2024 Kindle Scribe instead, because if i drop it, who cares, it's my old Kindle Scribe.

Anyone with multiple Kindle Scribe uses their older Kindle Scribe for outdoors in the park or always uses your newer and more expensive Kindle Scribe no matter what?

The Scribe is pretty! The addition of color and a light is fantastic. (I come from from a world of having used a reMarkable 2 for quite a few years, usually as a notetaking device at work instead of the immense spiral notebooks that I used to use.)

• The ability to import from Google Drive is fantastic.

• File handling within Workspace seems terrible. I meant to put ten related files in their own folder to reduce clutter, but I can't figure out how to select more than one at a time.

• There's no native .cbz reader, but I haven't had that since the Nook HD+.

• A page seems to be a page, with no ability to keep scrolling down. That's both good and bad: important details can't hide further down, but it also means that sequential pages will be related and I'll need some way to distinguish entries.

• Adding a page to the end of a Notebook is just as easy as it was.

• Inserting a new page after the current non-last page seems much more involved.

• I am used to the select feature only grabbing strokes completely within my selection area and ignoring anything that continues outside that area. Not so much anymore, have to be VERY careful in the selection.

• Moving a selected area seems more cumbersome.

• Undo and redo seem to require the onscreen buttons instead of also being able to tap with two fingers or three, respectively.

• Being able to access my Kindle library is wonderful. This may supplant my Paperwhite.

• I'm looking forward to annotating PDFs in color instead of greyscale writing on a greyscale PDF.

• Response time is GOOD, compared to both the reMarkable 2 and the Paperwhite.

Hi. I got my scribe to annotate my books, write a diary and write notes.

I study japanese in my freetime and would like to hear if there is a way to get kanji practice paper in as an option for notebooks.

I’ve had my scribe for not yet two months, however, this week I have been having a problem where the skin on my hand sticks to the screen, it doesn’t slide smoothly. It’s suddenly made what was previously a joyful writing experience into something stressful. I thought that maybe the skin was dirty or something (my hands sweat sometimes when I use it) so I wiped it off with a microfiber cloth. This seems to have made little different. I also tried a lightly damp microfiber cloth on a few occasions - also not much difference.

I’m wondering if I need to be using a different product to clean the screen.

Is there a way to view Scribe notebooks on other Kindles? If not, is that functionality planned for the future? Thanks!

Hello, does anyone read Nat Geo on their Scribe? I have the subscription and have tried to download the PDF. They have a watermark on them that makes it almost impossible to read. Any solutions?