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When we reviewed Kindle Scribe, we fell in love with it, but we weren’t oblivious to its shortcomings, including limited editing capabilities. Now, Amazon Published an update This solves some of the issues I had with this device and makes it a better option for taking notes. One of the new features is the ability to write directly to the page. This feature is not yet available for all books, but Scribe’s Kindle store has a new section called “Write-on Books” where you can find titles that support this feature.
At the moment, our selection of books with direct-on-page writing consists primarily of guided journals and games such as crosswords and sudoku. In other words, a book that doesn’t make sense on devices that don’t support writing. If you’re checking out a title on your laptop or mobile phone, you can also find out if that feature is supported by searching for “on-page writing” in the product details section. Even for books that don’t support writing on the page, you’ll still need to create sticky notes and write within the rectangle provided. If you’ve ever wanted to doodle or take notes in the margins of a book, you’ll have to struggle to get that functionality.
If you’ve written notes in Scribe and want to share or upload them, this update also gives you the ability to easily convert your notes to text. You’ll see a new option in the Share menu, Convert to Text and Quick Send, and a new option, Convert to Text and Email. Both options will share your handwritten notes as .txt files, but the latter will give you the chance to review and edit the converted text before sharing it to 5 addresses via email.
There is also a new lasso selection tool for moving notes and scribbles. Simply circle your handwritten text or drawing, resize it, drag it to another location, cut it, copy it and paste it within your sticky note, notebook or PDF. When it comes to PDFs, files in the format uploaded through “Send to Kindle” are much more customizable. You can trim margins to make text easier to read, select text to highlight, and add text notes. You can now also search for definitions, translations, Wikipedia results for text in PDF files, and switch between portrait and landscape views.
These features will roll out to all Kindle Scribes in the coming weeks, download manually Get the latest software updates now.
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