I’ve rather lost track of Amazon’s Kindle offerings, and just noticed the existence of the Kindle Scribe

. A couple of questions:
1. I’ve no interest in annotating documents or books. Does the Scribe still make sense simply as a large-screen Kindle?
2. I side-load all my content from Calibre via USB. I notice that the Scribe uses an MTP connection rather than mounting as a drive. Is it still feasible to have a large side-loaded book collection on the Scribe? I currently have about 9400 books on my 32GB Paperwhite. I’ve used MTP devices in the past and there have been major speed issues with Calibre.