06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Is it really Sunday again? Hoorah! Time to dig in to another digest of MobileRead delectables

E-Book Readers - Amazon Kindle

• Amazon announces Kindle Scribe Colorsoft at Sept. 30 Devices Event

08:44 AM by Frogm4n in E-Book Readers | Amazon Kindle

Official Amazon PR announcement: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/dev...e-scribe-color

Mentions a new stylus pen and new rendering engine for the display.

Does not mention implementing the new Workspace and other notebook software features on the previous Scribe models. Does mention bringing the AI-powered book summary features to the iOS app and other Kindles.

https://www.engadget.com/amazon-even...100017137.html

(I'll add highlights here to save people needing to scroll the live feed)

Kindle Scribe
Kindle Scribe with FrontLight
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft

It is 5.4mm thick, 400g, and no longer has asymmetric bezels. The display stack was thinned, and has a claimed latency of under 12ms.

The new design has both B&W and color display models.

There is a Scribe Workspace app that allows import and export to Google Drive and OneDrive. You can export notes to OneNote and Alexa+.

AI-powered Notebook search. Book summary Story So Far and Ask This Book are claimed to be spoiler-free and AI-powered.

(They've moved to Echo devices so this is all for the Scribe)

https://www.theverge.com/news/788289...notepad-stylus

11 inch display, up from the 10.2 of the 2022 and 2024 Scribes

New Home screen with a Quick Notes section

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tabl...145031938.html

This article calls it "Scribe 3" which I think is editorializing it like was done by calling the Scribe 2024 the "Scribe 2".

https://www.engadget.com/mobile/tabl...145147981.html

Engadget hands-on with the new Scribes. Their description wording makes it clear that it is Kaleido, like the other Colorsoft models.

Like the Kindle Colorsoft that Amazon announced in 2023, the Scribe Colorsoft uses a color filter and LEDs. What’s slightly different is a new rendering engine that Amazon said “enhances the color and ensures writing is fast, fluid and totally natural.”

The redesigned home page will be launching later this year, and older Kindle devices will be able to update to the new software.

This still doesn't directly say if the older Scribe will be getting the new Workspace app and Notebook features.

https://www.amazon.com/kindle/shop/kindle-scribe

The official product pages are now public. In them Amazon describes the B&W models as:

Generation Kindle Scribe (3rd Generation)

And the color model as:

Generation Kindle Scribe Colorsoft (1st Generation)

I'll take back the comment that Engadget was editorializing about "Scribe 3", partially. Amazon is calling them the 3rd gen, but only the B&W models. They have skipped a generation, as the 2024 Scribe is still listed as:

Kindle Scribe 1st generation - 2024 release

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Been away? Fear not! Here is your chance to check out what appeared on our frontpage this week:

E-Book General - News

• New 16GB Kindle Colorsoft

12:17 PM by salamanderjuice in E-Book General | News

Amazon announced a new slightly cheaper 16GB Kindle Colorsoft that also drops features like wireless charging.

https://www.theverge.com/news/712765...oft-16-gb-kids

Still more than the Kobo Libra Color somehow.

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

There's been a whole heck of a lot of stuff happening this week. Purvey the below for your pleasure.

E-Book General - News

• Kobo & Netgalley come to an arrangement to allow eBook on Kobo Readers

03:03 PM by JSWolf in E-Book General | News

https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...campaign=00003

NetGalley members can now send books straight to their Kobo. The new “Send to Kobo” feature lets you quickly send NetGalley EPUBs to your Kobo eReader or app—no downloads or cables needed.

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

My goodness, is it Sunday again? Well, for those of you who've missed the highs and lows of MobileRead over the past seven days, this is your one-way ticket to catch up:

E-Book Software - Reading and Management

• Free Windows Multi-format Ebook Search and Preview Plugin

04:05 AM by umeca74 in E-Book Software | Reading and Management

I put together windows shell extensions for most popular eBook formats (Kindle, EPUB, PDF etc) in a single (free) installer package

It allows books to be indexed by windows search and be previewed as thumbnails and page by page in windows file explorer and compatible file managers like xplorer2

for more information see here
http://www.zabkat.com/blog/mobi-epub...ows-search.htm
(for MOBI, AZW3, PDF, EPUB, FB2, DJVU, XPS, PRC)

please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions

nikos