Amazon is making two additions to its lineup of writing tablets: the Kindle Scribe 3, and the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft. The company showed off the new ereaders at its fall hardware event in New York.
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is the first time Amazon has added a full-color display to its notebook-like ereader. According to the company, the full-color display is meant to look crisp but “subtle,” without the harsh brightness of a typical tablet. The included pen will support writing in 10 different colors and five different shades of highlighter.
Meanwhile, the new Scribe 3 has been redesigned to be significantly thinner and lighter than its predecessor. At 5.4mm thick, Amazon says it’s meant to have a “paper-like” design. It’s also been revamped for a faster writing and page-turning experience. During the event, the company said that writing latency “is down to under 12 milliseconds.”
The Scribe 3 and Scribe Colorsoft support importing documents from your existing Google Docs and OneDrive accounts. Both tablets come with a new “texture-molded glass” display and a redesigned LED light system at the front of the display. And the display itself has been “rearchitected” to make the writing experience feel more like writing on actual paper than on a tablet. Both Scribes come with an updated processor (Amazon described it as a “quad-core” chip) and increased memory compared with the Scribe 2.
Like last year’s Scribe 2, both new models will come with a bunch of AI features, including the ability to generate summaries and search through your notes. Amazon also plans to integrate the Scribe devices into its Alexa+ service so users can ask Alexa questions based on the contents of their notebooks. Amazon is also adding an AI-powered summary feature for ebook readers, called “So Far,” that will deliver summaries based on how much of a book you’ve already read, so you don’t have to worry about potential spoilers.
The new Kindle Scribe devices go on sale in the United States “later this year” and will be available in the UK and Germany in early 2026. The third-generation Scribe will start at $500 and the Scribe Colorsoft starts at $630. Amazon will also sell a version of the Scribe 3 without a front light for $430.
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