After much deliberation, I recently decided to get myself a Kindle Scribe. I will write a separate article about the background and my assessment. For now, I just want to give a little tip that would have helped me a lot and that might help some people in the future: It’s about the Kindle Scribe Premium Pen or actually the little extra button it has.
The purpose of this is to make it possible to operate an additional function quickly, e.g. to write and then quickly access the highlighter or note function. So I configured the settings so that the highlighter is activated when I press the button and then opened a book to test it. I pressed the button – nothing happened. Nothing seemed to work with any other documents either. Was my pen broken? I was about to buy a new one from Amazon when I had an idea:
I opened the document again, pressed the button AND HOLD IT PRESSED THIS TIME – and lo and behold, it works. The stylus works differently than I’m used to with the Apple Pencil and doesn’t change the selection of the tool when you press the button, but overrides it temporarilly while being pressed. Once you release the button the selected tool is being used again. Not very intuitive and this is not indicated anywhere in the UI. In my opinion, the way Amazon has solved this is not ideal, but the main thing is that it works and I now know what the problem was.