
'Bigger, brighter and lighter': It was love at first use with the 3rd-generation Amazon Kindle Scribe (2025), but its height and price make it unwieldy
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Premium e-paper is drifting into a weird middle ground—great experience, but size and price limit it to niche workflows. Unless your team lives in long-form reading and annotation, this is a nice-to-have, not a core productivity surface to design around.
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