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tomsem · Yesterday, 01:15 AM

I'm curious about 'downloading directly from Google Drive/OneDrive'. They mention PDF and Word format; what about ePub, google spreadsheets, excel, powerpoint, etc? In any case, I assume they're still gonna get converted to a Kindle format somehow, and not improve native PDF support or add native Word support. 'On device' conversion seems unlikely but anything else would not be 'direct'. And 'direct' downloads would presumably not get stored in library? Still has to go through Amazon server to export to PDF>

Encryption: does it mean .notebooks folder will now be hidden?

Having notebooks be searchable will be a nice addition. Since this is likely just another application of handwriting CR that's done in cloud (used now for 'refinement' and conversion to text), I'd expect it to be for all Scribes and not just the new ones.

It's disappointing that underline highlight style and active canvas notes are still to be exclusive to Scribe for now. What is so special about underline that it cannot be implemented everywhere? Active canvas notes should at least be visible with the Kindle apps, as sticky notes are.

Also 64GB seems a bit restrictive if you want to use it for color PDFs (print replica KFX) and comic books.

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tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,988 Karma: 27060353 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	I'm curious about 'downloading directly from Google Drive/OneDrive'. They mention PDF and Word format; what about ePub, google spreadsheets, excel, powerpoint, etc? In any case, I assume they're still gonna get converted to a Kindle format somehow, and not improve native PDF support or add native Word support. 'On device' conversion seems unlikely but anything else would not be 'direct'. And 'direct' downloads would presumably not get stored in library? Still has to go through Amazon server to export to PDF> Encryption: does it mean .notebooks folder will now be hidden? Having notebooks be searchable will be a nice addition. Since this is likely just another application of handwriting CR that's done in cloud (used now for 'refinement' and conversion to text), I'd expect it to be for all Scribes and not just the new ones. It's disappointing that underline highlight style and active canvas notes are still to be exclusive to Scribe for now. What is so special about underline that it cannot be implemented everywhere? Active canvas notes should at least be visible with the Kindle apps, as sticky notes are. Also 64GB seems a bit restrictive if you want to use it for color PDFs (print replica KFX) and comic books. Last edited by tomsem; Yesterday at 01:27 AM.