Amazon debuts Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft

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Amazon just gave the Kindle a glow-up, and this time, it’s not just another shade of gray. 

At its fall hardware event, the company unveiled two new members of the Kindle family: a refreshed Kindle Scribe and the first-ever color Kindle Scribe, complete with AI smarts and a price tag that’ll make you check your bank balance twice.

The new Kindle Scribe looks like it’s been hitting the gym. With an 11-inch glare-free display, a skinny 5.4mm frame, and a lightweight 400 grams, it’s thinner than most magazines and about as heavy as a grande latte. 

Amazon swears it’s also 40% faster at page-turning and pen-scribbling, thanks to a new quad-core chip and extra memory.

Oh, and the glass has been given a “texture-molded” makeover to feel more like scribbling on paper, because we all miss the scratchy joy of Bic-on-notebook.

Two flavors will be available: one with a built-in front light ($499.99, coming later this year) and one without ($429.99, early next year). 

The real scene-stealer, though, is the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which finally brings color to Amazon’s e-ink world. 

Instead of searing your eyeballs with LCD brightness, Colorsoft promises soft, natural hues and buttery gradients that artists can shade and blend like pros. 

It also lasts weeks on a charge, a not-so-subtle flex against your iPad. Price: $629.99.

Of course, this is 2025, so the devices come sprinkled with AI. 

You can now search through your handwritten notes, get tidy AI summaries, and, starting next year, ship your documents to Alexa+ for a chat about what you wrote (because who doesn’t want to argue with their smart assistant about meeting notes?). 

Readers get some tricks too: “Story so Far” will give you spoiler-free recaps of your current book, while “Ask this Book” lets you quiz passages for character motives or scene context, like having CliffsNotes built in.

Will Amazon’s color E Ink technology in the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft finally make e-readers viable for creative work and textbooks, or is the $629.99 price too steep for what’s essentially a reading device with modest color capabilities? Do the AI-powered note summarization and book comprehension features genuinely enhance the reading experience, or are they unnecessary additions that complicate what should be a simple, distraction-free device? Tell us below in the comments, or reach us via our Twitter or Facebook.