Amazon Kindle Scribe Essentials Bundle including Kindle Scribe (32GB) - Tungsten, Premium Pen, Plant-Based Leather Folio-Black, and Power Adapter

This is my favorite device. I take notes for class and read on this Kindle. Highly recommend for productivity and leisure reading with minimal distractions.

I like how big and nice it is. It makes reading in dim light easy. You can change it to dark mood if you need to. It is great for taken notes or to just doodle on it.

Very happy with this purchase

This is my second purchase (a gift to my wife). My first purchase was over a year ago. I like the larger screen as it "feels" more book like. We are 60+ and use the larger fonts. Having a larger screen doesn't make us feel like we are reading one sentence a page. I do have several older and smaller Kindles used for comparison. Surprisingly the larger device doesn't seem much heavier. While the Scribe has a note taking feature, I personally have not used it. I do like the concept but tend to just look something up verses writing a note.This light and dark mode are great for reading in bed and not disturbing your partner. My gift was a bit self-serving as my wife started "borrowing" my Scribe and I was constantly trying to remember where I had put it.

Update: I spent a lot of time with my new Kindle Scribe last night, and I am liking it better, so I am upgrading to four stars. It does take some getting used to. The issues I noted in my initial review still hold, but the note-taking and annotation functions in books and documents are helpful. It would be nice if there were a cleaner way of transferring these things to a computer. This is my initial review. I've just spent the past four hours learning this new Kindle Scribe. I've been using Kindles since 2010, so I'm familiar with much of the functionality. As an e-reader, it's as good as its predecessors, but I bought it because I wanted the note-taking functionality. Unfortunately, my expectations were greater than the capability of this device. Firstly, it is good for taking notes in the notebook mode. You can handwrite the notes and convert them to more readable text. That is nice. Amazon advertises that you can take notes on other documents, books, and so forth, and this is true, however, this function has a very awkward interface with the notebook function. You cannot convert the notes you take in a document or book into text. You can email the notes to yourself, but they go without the book or document text to which they refer. So what you get is your scribbled notes, scattered across a blank page. I have searched high and low in Amazon's documentation on this Scribe to see if I've somehow gotten it wrong, but it doesn't appear that I have. It appears that the engineers who designed this device didn't have a good idea of the needs of non-technical customers like me. It may be great for someone more tech-savvy than I. I'll likely use it for its note-taking and sending capabilities. For the price, I expected better.

Love my kindle scribe for journaling and doodling. A lot of fun.

Took me a while to appreciate simple black & white books, but now that I have learned to take notes, prepare my own notebooks and have access to logic puzzles, it is with me all the time.

excellent. Made my life much easier.