Amazon is refreshing its Kindle Scribe lineup with slimmer hardware, fresh productivity tools, and, for the first time, a color model. The updated family now includes a redesigned Kindle Scribe, a more affordable version without a front light, and the new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft — Amazon’s first e-ink device with a color display.
On the hardware side, all three models sport a thinner, lighter chassis that measures just 5.4mm thick and weighs around 400g. Amazon claims a 40 percent boost in performance for writing and page turns, thanks to a new quad-core processor, expanded memory, and updated Oxide display tech. The 11-inch panel is still glare-free, but the front light system has been overhauled with smaller LEDs, allowing for slimmer bezels. The company also reworked the glass surface with a texture that mimics paper friction and reduced parallax by tightening the distance between the pen tip and the digital ink.
The big debut is the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which uses Amazon’s custom “Colorsoft” e-ink technology. It combines a color filter with a nitride LED light guide and a new rendering engine designed to make handwriting and drawing in color feel smooth and responsive. Like the monochrome version, it promises weeks of battery life and remains distraction-free — no social apps or push notifications here.
On the software side, Amazon is leaning into AI. A redesigned home screen adds Quick Notes, while new cloud integrations let you pull in documents from Google Drive and OneDrive, mark them up, and export annotated PDFs. The new AI-powered notebook can search handwritten notes using natural language queries, generate summaries, and — in an update planned for early next year — sync with Alexa through a “Send to Alexa+” feature so you can ask your smart assistant about your notes. Creative tools also expand with 10 pen colors, five highlighter shades, and a shading tool, plus support for exporting notebooks to OneNote either as text or embedded images.
Amazon is also rolling out AI features for reading, starting on the Kindle iOS app later this year before expanding to Kindle devices in early 2026. Story So Far gives you spoiler-free plot recaps up to your current page, while Ask this Book lets you highlight passages and get contextual answers about characters or scenes.
Price and availability
The new Kindle Scribes ship with a magnetic pen that doesn’t require charging. Pricing starts at $499.99 for the 32GB Kindle Scribe with front light, $629.99 for the 32GB Colorsoft model, and $429.99 for the 16GB no-light version arriving early next year. All models will launch in the U.S. first, with the UK and Germany following shortly after. Amazon is also introducing new folio covers made from plant-based materials and premium leather.
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