If you’re a bookworm who gets through their fair share of books every month, or struggles to fit all their tomes in their bag when off on holiday, you might be considering a Kindle. Amazon’s popular e-readers are a great way to carry around hundreds or even thousands of books in your bag to ensure you always have something on hand to read.
Right now, Amazon has slashed the price of one of its most capable Kindles. If you think you’d benefit from the largest screen on a Kindle, it could be the deal for you.
The 2022 Kindle Scribe is currently reduced to £229.99, a 30 percent, £100 discount on the usual £329.99 RRP. Though Amazon released a second version of the Scribe in 2024, they are functionally identical, and the 2022 model has received all the latest software updates that the newer model gets.
The newer version is currently at least £379.99, so the 2022 version for £229.99 is saving you a whopping £150 on the ultimate Kindle experience.
I’ve used the 2022 Kindle Scribe extensively and it’s a joy to read on thanks to its 10.2-inch display – yes, that’s large, but it means you can fit more text on a page, and when you increase the text size there are still several words on a line, unlike on smaller screen Kindles.
The screen has the same pixel density as smaller Kindles, the frontlight is great and means reading in the dark is a breeze, and the battery can last for weeks, if not months.
The Scribe comes with Amazon’s Basic Pen (which you don’t need to ever charge), as this is a Kindle you can also write on, either to make notes in e-books or when creating blank notebooks. It means you can carry around your whole library of books and also use it as a notebook for personal or work scribblings.
One quibble is that you can’t write directly onto e-book pages like you would on a real book, or like rival Kobo e-readers let you do. Instead, you can insert boxes on the page to write notes in, which the text forms around. I think this is a bit clunky, but it’s better than nothing.
I prefer to enjoy the large screen for reading and mainly use the Scribe as a notebook.
New AI features available in a free software update means you can get the Scribe to summarise your notes. This is handy after a long meeting, as it can break down your handwritten scrawl into typed bullet points or sentences.
You can also view your notebooks and any in-book annotations in the Kindle app for iPhone or Android, making the Scribe a good Kindle to get if you want all your data connected across devices.
