Vidita Chandra | 1 Oct 2025 09:59 AM
Amazon has expanded its Kindle lineup with the launch of the all-new Kindle Scribe and its first-ever colour edition, the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, both equipped with AI-powered features designed to enhance reading, note-taking, and creative workflows.
Amazon’s first-ever colour Kindle Scribe, the Colorsoft, introduces a display technology that produces soft, eye-friendly colours, unlike traditional LCD panels. A new rendering engine improves colour quality and ensures fast, natural writing, while the device promises weeks of battery life. The Colorsoft also includes a shader tool that lets artists create smooth gradients and subtle tones, with the ability to write, draw, and annotate in 10 pen colours or highlight in 5 highlighter colours.
The Colorsoft features AI-powered note-taking and reading features as the standard Kindle Scribe, including note search, AI summaries, “Story So Far,” and “Ask this Book.” It is designed to provide a seamless experience for both handwritten notes and reading, making it ideal for creative and professional users alike.
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft will be available starting at $629 (approx. Rs.55,700.).
Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe features a larger 11-inch glare-free display while maintaining a slim profile at 5.4mm thick and 400 grams. Writing and page-turning are now 40% faster, thanks to a new texture-molded glass that improves friction and simulates the feel of writing on paper as per Amazon. The device is powered by a quad-core processor, comes with more memory, and uses Amazon’s latest Oxide display technology.
The Kindle Scribe introduces a revamped Home experience, allowing users to quickly jot notes and access recently opened books, documents, and notebooks. It is designed for handwritten note-taking, with features such as note search across notebooks, AI-generated summaries, and, in a future update, the ability to send notes and documents to Alexa+ for interactive discussions.
On the reading side, the device supports AI-powered features like “Story So Far,” which summarises the book up to your current reading point, and “Ask this Book,” which provides spoiler-free answers about characters, motives, or scenes. These AI features will be available on the Kindle iOS app later this year and on Kindle devices early next year.
The Kindle Scribe comes in two versions – one with a front light system priced at $499 (approx. Rs. 44,200), launching later this year in the U.S., and one without a front light, priced at $429 (approx. Rs. 38,000), arriving early next year.