Amazon has launched its first e-reader with a stylus for annotating books and PDFs and doodling in the margins

Amazon has launched its first e-reader with a stylus for annotating books and PDFs and doodling in the margins.

Revealed at the annual Amazon launch event on Wednesday night, Kindle Scribe is the tech giant’s first Kindle to come with a stylus — a pen-like device with a tip. 

The 0.22-inch thin e-reader has a 10.2-inch ‘glare-free’ display that ‘feels like real paper’, while the battery-free stylus, which magnetically attaches to the side of the device, lets users add handwritten notes to books and documents. 

Kindle Scribe is now available for pre-order starting at £329.99, and is released November 30. 

As well the Kindle Scribe, Amazon revealed multiple new devices at its September launch event, including a creepy sleep tracker and new Echo speakers.

‘Kindle Scribe is the best Kindle we’ve ever built, creating a reading and writing experience that feels like real paper,’ said Eric Saarnio, vice president for Amazon Devices International.

‘It’s inspired by the Kindle customers who have added billions of notes and highlights to books over the years, www.solitaryisle.shop and it’s also ideal for reviewing and marking up documents, managing your to-do list, or doodling over a big idea. 

‘Plus, it offers all the Kindle benefits customers know and love — millions of books on demand, adjustable fonts, premium reading features, and weeks and weeks of battery life — with the benefit of a beautiful, large display.’ 

The stylus is battery-free, so it never needs to be charged, while the e-reader itself lasts several weeks on a single charge, ‘making it an ideal, take-anywhere companion’. 

Amazon said notes made on the Kindle Scribe are automatically saved and backed-up to the cloud for free, and, coming in early 2023, they will also be accessible via the Kindle app. 

As with all Kindle e-readers, Kindle Scribe comes with access to the Kindle Store, which gives access to millions of books.

Also revealed by Amazon yesterday was a new bedside sleep tracker that doubles as an alarm clock, called Halo Rise, which is only for US customers and costs $139. 

Halo Rise uses non-contact sensors and artificial intelligence to measure a person’s movements and breathing patterns while they sleep. 

It works by tracking room temperature, humidity and light, plus the breathing patterns of the person closest to it, with the goal of providing insight to why or why not the user had a good night’s rest. 

Amazon stressed that information in the device will be kept safe — saying the ‘health data is encrypted in transit and at rest in the cloud’. 

Also among the product announcements were four new Echo devices — updated versions of the spherical Echo Dot, Echo Dot with Clock and Echo Dot Kids, as well as the cylindrical Echo Studio. 

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