I wanted something I could put my craft books onto, and annotate them if necessary, and record any projects I did from them. I did a search, including reviews, to find the most reliable e-book to do that. It would have been nice to have had colour, but I did not recognise many of the brands and the companies had often only been in existence for a few years, or else they were beyond my budget, and still did not do quite what I wanted. The Scribe was the nearest I could get to something I could use, and the price was reasonable.
Its a lot larger than I expected but its easy enough to hold if I have to, but the most pleasing thing is the clarity of the print. Its in black and white, which is a pity as I would have preferred colour, but I am hoping this will not be too much of a disadvantage since I can check colours on the app on my computer. Set up was simple, the most tedious part of it all was picking out the books I wanted on it and downloading them, but now its done.
One of my gripes is during setup setting the time is not intuitive or automatic! I don't live in Sydney, so I have had to make sure the time is set to manual, not automatic, and will have to set it into summer time in a few weeks. This is very basic and all our mobile phones and computers manage it, and so does my Paperwhite, so why not the Scribe? But it is only a matter of slight inconvenience.
I have not yet tried the pen but I have used a little rubber tipped stylus on it and it responds well to that. which brings me to my second gripe. I wanted the 32Gb Scribe with the basic pen, and couldn't get it. I notice the 64Gb version was also not available, not funny if your technical library has a lot of diagrams and drawings. Craft libraries suffer from the same drawback, they have large files and 16Gb may not be enough, but the price increase is not justified by the more expensive pen being included with the 32Gb.
Those gripes aside, I am happy with the Scribe and it will suit my needs, and my experience in the past with Kindles suggests I will get good use out of this.
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