[tomsem]

I got my Scribe Colorsoft yesterday.

Coming from the 2022 Kindle Scribe, I'm very pleased with the physical changes: it feels more balanced and comfortable to hold and write on, it is nice to have a larger screen without it feeling bulkier, and it's actually a little lighter.

For me, the stylus is more comfortable and the 1st generation Premium Pen, and my writing is far clearer that what I created on the 2022.

On the software improvements (many of which should appear on older Scribes), Workspace is a game-changer. It's great for grouping content around specific interests or projects, combining books, documents, and notebooks for more focus.

One very significant improvement to Notebooks which I have not seen described elsewhere is that you can now duplicate pages, copy or move pages to another notebook. One nitpick: one should be able to move and copy to a new notebook. But it's a vast improvement over the copy/paste workaround.

My other favorite feature is ability to convert handwriting to text in text entry contexts (search, text notes). It is much faster than using the virtual keyboard, and it works without internet connection.

Google Drive and OneDrive connection is a mixed bag. It does use Send to Kindle cloud service, it does not 'directly download' and convert on-device as feature description might imply. There's no option to avoid adding it to your Library, or to rename title/author (feature request: ability to rename personal documents). But it is more convenient in that you don't have to use a second device if what you want is in GD or OD.

Export to OD/GD/OneNote also goes through Amazon services, but at least it avoids the awkward link-to-download-in-email, and collects everything in one place in GD/OD.

With OneDrive, there's a cover preview offered for ePub format.

Notebooks sync with my 2022 Scribe; when using one of the new notebook templates, they do show as expected on the 2022 Scribe, but those pages do not have a template label.

This suggests that it is possible to construct custom template notebook pages, side-load these and have them available for use (now that you can duplicate and move pages).

I'm also interested in
- building on @jhowell's export notebook to ePub (KFX output CLI) to add an export to PDF option, where annotations would be grouped (by timestamp probably) and editable with a PDF viewer.
- exporting print replica documents to PDF and converting and adding pen annotations and text notes and highlights to PDF equivalents (what Amazon should be doing).