Amazon announces Kindle Scribe Colorsoft at Sept. 30 Devices Event

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by Quoth

What's this about AI summaries on new Scribes?

I'm fine if they're not backported ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by salamanderjuice

Quoth has a problem thinking their eyesight and preferences are everyones'.

Personally I've read A4 PDFs on 8" readers, read color comics on 7" readers.

Even with a magnifying glass that's impossible for loads of content. The pixels aren't there to have the text.

It's not about eyesight and preferences, but universal content.

Some A4 content and some color comics even works on 6", most doesn't work on 8".

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by rantanplan

I'm fine if they're not backported ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, I just wondered how it's supposed to work (e.g. local, or Amazon server generated). Even if it was "backported" like azw3 and KFX was, I presume it could be ignored or even turned off.

[salamanderjuice]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Even with a magnifying glass that's impossible for loads of content. The pixels aren't there to have the text.

It's not about eyesight and preferences, but universal content.

Some A4 content and some color comics even works on 6", most doesn't work on 8".

There's the same number of pixels on a 7.8" 300 DPI device as the 10.3" Kobo Elipsa. There's more pixels on a 300 DPI 6" eReader than the original 10" iPad or Kindle DX.

Here's a PDF of US letter paper displaying various text sizes. Even the 6pt text is clearly readable to me on a 7" Kobo Libra Color without zoom which is the smallest and lowest resolution eReader I still have. It's not the most comfortable read but it is legible.

I don't know about you, but I don't usually read content with even 6 pt fonts! Maybe the copyright info is that small.

[kyôdai]

Originally Posted by Frogm4n

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"

The naming scheme for the Kindles has always been quite confusing and a bit stupid ever since they started this "generation" nonsense. But they somehow managed to make it even worse...

Amazon is now essentialy using two different definitions for the word "generation".

Both the basic Kindle and the Paperwhite still use the old definition refering to an overall platform / family of Kindles. For example the current Paperwhite is NOT called "Paperwhite 6th generation", because it is the 6th version of Paperwhite they ever made. No, instead it is called "Paperwhite 12th generation", because it belongs to the 12th generation of Kindle devices.

The Scribe and Colorsoft however have started to use a new definition of "generation", now refering to the device itself. They are called "1st generation", because they are the first version of themself, not because they belong to the very first generation of Kindle ever created in 2007...

They are kind of trying to mitigate this chaos a bit by also adding the release year now, but I wish they would just go back to numbering their devices like they did in the beginning.