Amazon’s big-screen Kindle Scribe is greater than $100 off proper now

From AirPods to the Echo Pop, we’ve seen a handful of latest Prime Day standouts resurface as a part of Finest Purchase’s newest gross sales occasion. The retailer’s present promo on Amazon gadgets additionally extends to the Kindle Scribe, which you’ll be able to seize at Best Buy and Target with 16G of storage and a Primary Pen for an all-time low of $234.99 ($105 off). You too can purchase it with the Premium Pen at Best Buy for $279.99 ($110 off).

In case you’re somebody who’s already embedded in Amazon’s ecosystem, few note-taking e book readers can rival the Kindle Scribe. It’s an incredible machine with a pointy 10.2-inch show and battery life that’s on par with Amazon’s entry-level Kindle, permitting you to learn uninterrupted for weeks at a time. But, in contrast to Amazon’s different e-readers, the Scribe provides respectable note-taking capabilities through built-in notebooks, which give a number of layouts, organizational instruments, and pen types for a extra personalized expertise.

It’s a disgrace that the Scribe doesn’t mean you can annotate books immediately like you possibly can with the Kobo Elipsa 2E, which has grow to be my favourite note-taking e-reader partly for that cause. But when your library consists of primarily Kindle ebooks, it’s nonetheless a great choice with native assist for Kindle books and the power to take notes with choose titles. Plus, since launching the Scribe, Amazon has added a number of new options through OTA updates — together with the power to transform handwriting into typed textual content — making it extra succesful than it was after we first reviewed it.