Since its original launch in 2022, the Kindle Scribe has always been the odd man out in the Kindle line-up. It’s way larger than most Kindles, for one, but it also allows you to write notes using a stylus, a feature that fundamentally changes how a Kindle might fit into your life. In late 2024, the Scribe got its first hardware refresh, making it faster than ever. It also received an update that enhanced the Active Canvas feature, letting you make notes in existing documents and e-books.
Before this Active Canvas update, your notes in an e-book or document would be separate from the rest of the existing text. Now, though, they can appear right in the text itself, replicating the experience of actually writing directly onto the page of a real-life book. What’s more is that you can connect a note to a piece of text in the document, so that note will always be in the proper place, regardless of how you might change the font size or page layout.