Active Canvas: a Novel Book Writing Experience with Note-Taking, e-Reading, and Scribing on Kindle and Paperwhite
It offers a novel book writing experience along with note-taking. The text of a book flows around you with the help of Active Canvas. You will also be able to add notes to the side panel soon. The integrated notebook has been equipped with Artificial intelligence to make it easier to read. Notes can be readable with a handwritten-style fonts, in preparation for export.
The entry-level Kindle is getting an update, with a new dark mode and 25 percent brighter backlight. Amazon also claims it now offers faster page turns — though side by side with the new Paperwhite, it was noticeably slower.
The new Kindle Scribe is an e-reader and note-taker. The 300ppi screen has new white edges and is designed to feel like paper when writing on it using Amazon’s Premium Pencil with new soft-tip eraser.
What Have We Learned About Amazon’s Kindle and the Colorsoft Electronic Paper Displays? A Brief Demo at the Launch Event for Amazon
The Spanish-language announcement with US price was accidentally made after the original link was taken down. It’s light on detail and none of the links to the product pages are live but here’s what we know so far.
We tried both at the launch event for Amazon in New York City and were impressed. Both of the devices are nice, but neither of them is a reinvention of the whole format.
The Scribe will convert your handwriting to text now that it’s available. Once it does that, it will be able to send your notes to one of Amazon’s large language models in order to do either summarize a single page or an entire notebook or it will automatically translate handwritten notes into a type that is more legible. You will eventually be able to search your handwritten notes as well.
Kevin says the idea of a notebook has been intentional. “We want it to feel like a notebook in your hand.” The fact that the Kindle is distraction-free, free from all the chaos and temptation of your phone and laptop, and now tries to apply the same vibes to your writing, is what makes it so appealing to Amazon.
Color electronic paper displays have hit the ground running this year with devices like the Kobo Libra Colour and the ReMarkable Paper Pro. It is safe to say that anticipation has gone up for a color eBook reader. With the Colorsoft, book covers, photos, and images will appear in color. Adding color highlights in books will make it easy to find paragraphs you highlighted, so you don’t have to search through pages to find them.
I didn’t notice it was slower than the Paperwhite, because pages turn fast and books open quickly. The screen on a regular book is about as bright as the other ones. You can pinch to zoom on most images, and in my demos the image will zoom smoothly but pixelate until it refreshes a moment later. We’ll have to do a lot more testing, though, and I worry all the screen flashing might get annoying as you navigate through a long graphic novel.
In a brief demo at Amazon’s launch event, I was impressed with the Colorsoft’s display. The screen is sharp and bright enough to make comics pop even though it is not an iPad screen. The device only displays a flashing refresh when there’s a sufficiently large image on the screen and it happened to me even with some pretty small images. But those images look good! Again, not iPad-level good, but certainly sharper and brighter than some color E Ink screens we’ve seen on devices like the Kobo Clara Colour.
Thanks to the community of TikTok users, who discuss literature and book lists, and other things, Amazon’s ebook readers have had a bit of a resurgence. Amazon says Kindle sales have grown in double-digit percentages for the past two years, which probably explains why the company is announcing four new Kindles today—the first time it has unveiled this many new models in a single moment.