14 Essential Kindle Scribe Features (Tips & Tricks)
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Today, I show you 14 Kindle Scribe tips & tricks that you absolutely need to know!
Kindle Scribe: geni.us/Abf3wO
0:00 Introduction
0:12 Lasso Select Tool
0:45 Eraser Selection Tool
1:16 Different Pen Options
1:45 Shortcut Button on Premium Pen
2:11 Moving the Toolbar
2:34 Notebook Templates
2:57 Accessing Notebooks on Other Devices
3:29 Converting Handwritten Text
4:12 Two-Column Mode
4:44 Write-On Books
5:16 Send to Kindle Website
5:54 Attaching Notes to Highlights
6:40 Exporting Book Notes
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I have been looking all over RUclips for easy straight forward explanations of Kindle Scribe features. Your video is great and shows features and how powerful Kindle Scribe is. Thank You!
You convinced me to get this for school! I’m in college and write my work out, only to have to type it up later. The fact that I can convert it to text is fantastic!! I also love that I can read the notebooks on my phone with the kindle app. You truly have the best review! Everyone else had me confused but you have me convinced lol.
Hey your video is great and your explanation is really clear thanks 😊
Agreed!!
Thank you for this video! I've been really struggling to find clear information about how to send notes to yourself via email and surprisingly there's practically no videos out there that showed this. You really helped me understand how I could use this device.
Great tips, thank you!
I have the Kindle Scribe and like it very much. As a reading device it lacks the ability to remove books from the home page to the library where the collections are. Organizing your books is important so the home page isn't being cluttered with new books you have purchased or books you have read but don't need them on the home page any longer. The Kindle App on the iPhone, iPad, and Fire have the capability to remove the books back to the library and into collections. Amazon software writers please help the reader have the control for a more pleasant experience.
I’m a little confused can you write notes in the margins of the kindle Scribd ?
@@Chaoticallynikki Yes and No. It depends on the document. For most ebooks and basically anything that has resizable text, the most you can do is highlight a passage of text and attach a note to it. That note will only be visible when tapping on the note icon attached to the text you highlighted, or when browsing all the notes for the document. For static PDF documents, you can indeed make notes on the document anywhere you want. They may or may not make improvements to this system in the future, but Amazon's note feature has been like this for a very long time.
I just got one. Very interesting device. Gorgeous. The software needs some more improvement such as write to text on the device without having to mail it. Also writing onPDFs needs to be exportable with the annotations. I’m hoping they get to it, fingers crossed
Idea for a video:
When you use the "send to Kindle" service, books are sent to the Scribe as KFX files which look substantially better, especially where drop caps and custom formatting are concerned. When the same file from the cloud is downloaded on a Paperwhite, it downgrades to an AZW3 file.
Anything uploaded before November 11th can not become a KFX. This suggests lesser files cannot be unconverted by the system, which leads me to suspect the conversion in Amazon's cloud is a KFX. This would explain why EPUBs uploaded after November have not been glitchy like they were at the start, as KFX and EPUB have more in common with each other. The natural conclusion is that it downgrades the KFX file when downloaded on "lesser" Kindle devices. Why the downgrade?
Your voice gets a lot of traction, and I would love to see someone talk about this. Why arbitrarily keep other Kindles from getting a KFX conversion rather than a lesser format? I understand KFX is needed to make note taking work, but why not let that format go to all kindles that can utilize the format? What gives Amazon? It kinda seems a bit classist. Pay the premium price for the best book format....
If nothing else, It might get some views with a good clickbait title like, "Amazon is downgrading your files!"
This is good idea for a video discussion on the matter.
I'm excited for textbooks lol
The warmth backlight is very uneven.
Out out 4 units only my first unit had an even warmth backlight.
I had to replace it developed a dead pixel.
It's very annoying. It's not a cheap device. I expect nothing but perfection.
Hi Maneetpaul, Love the handy videos and tips. I believe I know the answer but do you know of a way to get books off a different platform, say Apple Books or B&N, to read on a kindle. I used a few different platforms before I fell in love with my kindles. Keep up the videos, enjoy all the tips and reviews!
For mostly writing instead of reading, would you go for the Scribe or the Remarkable 2? -- I tried friend's Remarkable 2 recently and was instantly drawn to the sexy sleek design, the ultra low profile magnetic folio case, the tactile feel, the stunning design, the Scribe looks quite plasticky and cheap by comparison (but I haven't seen one in real life).
What are your thoughts especially now that the Scribe received all these software improvements and the Remarkable 2 dropped the subscription requirement for handwriting recognition and doc sync?
For pure note taking, Remarkable 2 wins right now. It is a writing monster, and now also has the folio keyboard cover, which was a huge temptation to me. But I went with the Scribe, instead. Amazon pushed the Scribe out the door under-featured, but they are catching up with software updates. I think that it is now--only in the past few months--a legitimate competitor to Remarkable. The Scribe is made of Aluminum and Glass, so I wouldn't call it plasticky at all. I love the Scribe's rubber feet for stabilization and holding it in place on lecterns, as I use it for public speaking. The writing experience is wonderful and well suited even for people like me who write in very small text, which wasn't an option until the latest updates. The official Amazon covers (I got burgundy leather) are also very nice, and I use the folding stand feature both on tabletops and to keep it from sliding down my legs in bed.
The main deciding factors which pushed me to the Scribe were:
- Kindle Unlimited, including a huge collection of Manga and monthly magazines, in addition to books.
- The easy note syncing and access on any device through Amazon's cloud.
- Price!! A fully decked Scribe was literally half the cost of a fully decked Remarkable 2 during Prime Day.
- Support. As much as some things about Amazon bother me (my daily book reader is a Kobo), for a specialized device like this, I know that Amazon has amazing customer support and that they actually do fully commit to a product. The Scribe is good now and it will continue to get better.
- Send to Kindle. The feature just works, and it works really well. Even complicated epubs that may take Calibre 40-minutes to process are processed by Amazon in mere moments. It's really slick.
- Backlighting! The Remarkable has none.
A question for Maneetpual or any of the community. Can I use a titanium replaceable pen tip on my kindle scribe.
That would be a terrible idea assuming you mean a tip made of titanium. The pen tip must be softer than the screen so only the pen tip wears down. If you use a material harder than the screen then the screen will be the part that is worn down and scratched.
Hi, I am interested in buying Kindle Scribe but it is not available in India yet. If I import it from US, will it work in India with my Amazon India account? Appreciate your answer
Brother I am a jee aspirent can you please tell me which Kindle should I buy! please
Well... For most people Kindle Paperwhite (the regular one not the signature edition) is well enough. Or if you read only ocasionally and not in the dark even the "classic" Kindle will be enough.