Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe (3rd generation) (2025) review


Like the Colorsoft and other similar color e-readers, the Scribe Colorsoft has 150 dpi (pixels per inch) for color, and 300 dpi for black and white. It has a new quad-core chip that promises to support both the color display and various AI features that Scribe has or will soon have (more on that below). You’ll get 10 colors for your pens, including black, grey, and five accent colors. You can use these colors in the Workspace tab and in your eBooks, allowing you to shade and underline in any color you choose.

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a digital tablet whose screen displays watercolor brush strokes

The new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft highlighter

Photo: Nina Farrell

You’ll also get a new drawing tool. You’ll get the pen styles we saw in the previous generation (pen, fountain pen, marker, and pencil), but now there’s a new shader tool that lets you layer lighter colors on top of each other for a more detailed, almost watercolor-like look. I’m not sure this is a tool I’ll be using much — I wouldn’t consider the Scribe Colorsoft a true drawing tablet, and I’d still prefer drawing with Procreate on my old iPad if I were to work on digital art, but it’s a nice feature.

Bigger brain

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a digital tablet with AI features shown in 3 side by side images

Summarization tool in progress

Photo: Nina Farrell

Both the new Kindle Scribes have more storage capacity (there’s no longer a 16GB option, just 32GB and 64GB) and a new quad-core chip that promises to support various AI-powered features on Scribe, including things like summarizing a notebook page or enhancing your writing, both of which you can do on the older Scribe. Newer AI-powered features like Story So Far, which summarizes the books you’re reading up to the point you’ve read them, and Ask This Book, which lets you ask spoiler-free questions about the books you’re reading, won’t be available until next year.

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