[tomsem]

Got my Scribe today, a couple of days earlier than expected.

I find the 'floating' pen toolbar annoying and distracting. Why not match the background color at least? As it is, I want to be able to hide the toolbar and have Pen function default to Select mode, just as if I were using a finger.

And until other Kindles and the Kindle apps let you at least view Sticky Notes, I don't see the point in creating any. So most likely I'll just store the Pen where it won't get damaged or lost.

I sent a PDF to see what everyone's complaining about. It's bad! Very bad! I was prepared to expect some degradation in functionality with the conversion they're doing, but I cannot even search, select text and highlight it, no dictionary lookup, no VoiceOver (at least partially supported), which you could do before when it stayed a PDF. Even though I'm not planning to mark up these fake PDFs, I expected to have these basic reading features. Beaucoup Boos, Bezos! (I know he isn't CEO any more but could not resist alliterating.)

[it seems to me that these 'fake PDFs' are essentially fixed layout KF8 -- at least they behave that way -- the text is not accessible, even though it is 'there' in the HTML. I bought one of these recently and was able to tweak a few things that were misaligned when I converted to PDF]

On the plus side:
- handwriting feels natural and low latency (should I ever want to do any)
- I think I will be comfortable reading on it; I had to bump size up a little from my usual setting to reduce words per line, but not by too much.
- the so called 'gap' is pretty even on all 4 sides
- happy with what I paid for it (discount plus trade-in), and no special offers to remove.
- happy that ePub personal documents have 'enhanced typography' features (presume this will be the case with other Kindles and apps at some point?)

It's not pure joy (which I was not expecting), but for now I'm leaning towards keeping it.