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Kindle Scribe Colorsoft
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is Amazon's 11-inch colour eReader and notebook with a pen, for people who want to read, sketch and take notes in colour.
- Screen
- 11″
- PPI
- 300
- Colour
- Yes
- Storage
- 32 GB – 64 GB
- Weight
- 400 g
What reviewers say
Reviewers agree it is a thin, light and well-made large Kindle whose colour screen suits highlighting and notes, with good battery life. All criticise the high price, and most found annotating books awkward and the software unpolished; Trusted Reviews rated writing only adequate and preferred reMarkable's tablets, while Wired found writing smooth.
From techradar.com, trustedreviews.com, wired.com, theverge.com and tomsguide.com
Specifications
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- Screen size
- 11″
- Sharpness
- 300 pixels per inch
- Colour
- Yes
- Front light
- Yes, adjustable warmth
- Display detail
- Colorsoft display, 300 ppi in black and white and 150 ppi in colour; 16-level grey scale; textured, paper-like surface
- Front light
- Auto-adjusting front light with adjustable warm light
- Page turns and refresh
- Quad-core processor; Amazon says writing and page turns are 40% faster than the previous Scribe
Reading and writing
- Stylus
- Yes
- Page-turn buttons
- No
- Audiobooks
- Yes
- Storage
- 32 GB, 64 GB
- Software
- Kindle
- Formats
- Kindle Format 8 (AZW3), Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI and PRC natively; PDF, DOCX, DOC, HTML, EPUB, TXT, RTF, JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP through conversion; Audible (AAX)
- Book store
- Kindle Store
- Stylus
- Premium Pen included (17 g, 155 × 8.8 mm); no charging or pairing; built-in eraser and shortcut button
- Note taking
- Notebooks, writing in documents and books in colour; AI notebook search and summaries; import from cloud services
Connections and battery
- Battery life (maker's claim)
- Up to 8 weeks
- Battery life detail
- Up to 8 weeks reading or 2 weeks writing, at half an hour a day with wireless off and the light at 13
- Charging
- USB-C; full charge in under 3 hours with a 20 W USB-C power adapter
- Connectivity
- Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz; WEP, WPA, WPA2 and WPA3)
- Audio
- Bluetooth audio for Audible and the VoiceView screen reader
Design
- Weight
- 400 g
- Size
- 245 × 189 × 5.4 mm, excluding feet
- Colours
- Graphite, Fig
- In the box
- Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Premium Pen, USB-C charging cable, replacement tips
Pros and cons
Pros
- Colour E Ink screen for writing, highlighting and drawing
- 5.4 mm and 400 g, the same as the black-and-white Scribe
- Pen included, needs no charging or pairing
Cons
- Colour is 150 ppi, half the sharpness of text
- Up to 8 weeks of reading and 2 weeks of writing, less than the black-and-white Scribe
- Not water resistant
Closest rivals
Model | Screen | PPI | Colour | Storage | Weight | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.3″ | 300 | Yes | 64 GB | 440 g | Sept 2026 | |
| 11.8″ | 229 | Yes | 64 GB | 525 g | Sept 2024 | |
| 11″ | 300 | No | 32 GB – 64 GB | 400 g | Dec 2025 |
Sources
- amazon.com/dp/B0FC1VJJFP
- aboutamazon.co.uk/news/devices/new-amazon-kindle-scribe-colour-uk
- aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-amazon-kindle-scribe-color
- blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2025/12/04/release-date-for-new-kindle-scribe-colorso…
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- Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, shown in the official redesigned Kindle Scribe family lineup: assets.aboutamazon.com/37/3a/aaa39dba47c1a19fc1d79828fe9d/kindle.png
