The best note-taking tablets of 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

Kindle Scribe is perhaps the perfect example of being part e-reader and part tablet. It has the same features you’ve come to know and love from Kindle, like a glare-free 300 ppi screen, weeks of battery life, and adjustable warm light. It’s also compatible with the Amazon Premium Pen, so you can take handwritten notes or highlight important quotes in the book you’re reading.

Your notes are automatically grouped in one place for each book, so you can view, view, and export them via email. Kindle Scribe also comes with pre-installed templates to help you create notebooks, journals, and lists, as well as create sticky notes in Microsoft Word and other compatible Word documents.

The new Active Canvas lets you take notes and write down your thoughts right on the pages of your book. ZDNET editor Kyle Kucharski tested Active Canvas and praised the feature as an avid note-taker.

Review: Amazon Kindle The Scribe (2024)

“The cool design element here is that the notes you draw with the pan exist on a different ‘layer’ than the book text, allowing you to edit what you write without ruining the text in the book,” he wrote in his review, adding, “I actually found that I prefer using the sticky notes feature, which adds a tiny icon to the text that, when clicked, opens a floating window with your notes, which then You can close it.”

There are also useful AI features that can summarize up to 15 pages in a notebook, extracting key takeaways from the text into a tidy summary. These features can also transcribe handwritten notes into text, which can be useful for those with chicken handwriting.

Kindle the scribe Specifications: Display: 10.2″ 300ppi Paperwhite | Storage: 16 GB, 32 GB or 64 GB | Weight: £0.96 | Dimensions: 7.7 x 9.0 x 0.22 inches | Battery life: Up to 12 weeks (30 minutes per day)