Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Executive Summary: 1. Great hardware. 2. Terrible software. 3. No connectivity with cloud services. 4. Limited writing tools reduce powerful hardware to the usefulness of a toy. 5. It's just a big Kindle. Buy it for that, but only if you must. This is an update to my review below, now that I've had a chance to use the device for a week. I no longer recommend this device and will most likely return mine until Amazon delivers a product that can do something besides reading ebooks. The hardware is gorgeous as I said below. The software is horrible. I use some pre-made PDF day planner templates on the Remarkable that should work on the Scribe. They are about 15MB. No problem getting the PDFs onto the Scribe. However, the only way to get the PDFs off the Scribe is either via a USB cable or email. If you try emailing a 15MB document, it crashes Amazon's system and says the document did not go through. This makes the device almost useless. You can't annotate an ebook. You have to use their 'sticky' notes which only work on Amazon-purchased DRM books. You can't annotate epub or mobi format books. You can write on PDFs but as I mentioned you cannot share them off the device in any reasonable manner. Want to put your notes in nested folders? Forget it. Can't be done. You get one level of folders for notes. That's it. Want to book your non-DRM'd ebooks in folders? Forget it. Can't be done. The writing tools are extremely limited. My advice: Wait for version 2.0 when the software is updated to be actually functional not thrown on in time to release before Christmas. They put a lot of thought in the hardware, but they completely ruined the device with terrible software. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I received my kindle scribe today. I also own a Remarkable 2. The kindle scribe is a larger kindle that also can be used for some light notebook features. It feels like a premium device in your hands. The physical design is excellent. It is challenging to organize your books and PDFs on the device, and then there is all Amazon's advertising on the home screen. The look and feel are definitely for leisure as opposed to serious work. The organizational features of the remarkable are way better. This can be fixed in software - Amazon needs to address this if they want to try and compete in the e-ink notebook space. The screen is gorgeous, crisp, and clear, and a beautiful backlight that can be adjusted to warmer or cooler, just like all the other kindles. While the scribe screen blows away the remarkable screen with better clarity and higher resolution, the writing experience is not as natural as the remarkable. The pen latency feels about the same, but the writing experience is closer to what you get on an iPad - writing on glass, whereas the remarkable feels about as close to writing on paper as you can get. The remarkable does not have a backlight, but in office conditions, you really don't need a backlight. The writing experience is quite good, just not up to how it feels on a remarkable. The notebook features are pretty limited, but the features that are available work very well. I recommend this device; just know that for serious writing and notetaking (at least for now), the remarkable is a better option. If you want a larger kindle and plan on mostly reading books and taking a few notes, then this device would be a better choice than the remarkable. Overall, I love it. I hope they add better features in software over time. If they do, this device would be a remarkable killer.