At present is the discharge date for the brand new Kindle Scribe 2, and Amazon has launched a software program replace for the primary Kindle Scribe that provides the brand new software program options they’re promoting for the Scribe 2.
The brand new software program model is 5.17.2, and it’s the largest replace that Amazon has launched for the Kindle Scribe in a very long time.
It provides the flexibility to put in writing notes straight on ebooks. You possibly can write notes wherever on the web page and it’ll mechanically reformat the web page to wrap the textual content round your handwritten notes. The sticky observe possibility continues to be obtainable as nicely so as to add handwritten notes exterior of the web page.
Should you don’t need to write straight over the textual content, you may also use the writing toolbar so as to add a clean part of house, which Amazon calls Canvas, to the web page to put in writing notes between traces of textual content.
Additionally they made it so you’ll be able to flip freehand highlights into good and tidy straightened highlights, and now you can use underlines as a substitute of highlights for those who favor.
They added new options to the Pocket book app as nicely. There’s a brand new AI function that may summarize your notes and assist refine your writing. The refine possibility can flip your sloppy handwriting into good, clear script. There are 4 font varieties, with choices for sizing and line spacing. I examined it with considered one of my notebooks and it appears to be like very nice, and it did a superb job of translating my haphazard writing—surprisingly, all of the phrases have been appropriate.
You possibly can obtain the 5.17.2 replace from the Kindle Software program Updates web page at Amazon. Or you’ll be able to look ahead to the replace to put in by itself in some unspecified time in the future. Persons are at all times asking why the replace isn’t being detected on their Kindle from the software program replace possibility from the Kindle’s essential settings menu, however that’s simply how they designed it to work; the replace possibility from the settings menu isn’t meant to set off updates when tapping on it until the replace is already downloaded to your Kindle.
FYI, Amazon nonetheless calls the brand new Kindle Scribe a 1st gen mannequin as a result of they modified so little. To date they solely have one obtain possibility on the Kindle updates web page. Who is aware of in the event that they’ll add a special hyperlink for the brand new mannequin like they did with the 2024 Kindle or in the event that they’ll simply use the identical hyperlink for each.
Right here’s the discharge notes for the brand new replace:
Model 5.17.2 – December 2024
Right here’s what’s new:
Annotation Options in Books: Now you can create richer annotations in eBooks with enhanced typesetting and Phrase paperwork. Draw highlights and underlines that mechanically snap to neatened annotations, or create a canvas by writing on the web page or inserting one from the writing toolbar.
AI Pocket book Instruments: Now you can recap your notes with the brand new pocket book summarization function, or refine your writing, changing your handwritten phrases right into a script font for a extra elegant look.
Efficiency enhancements, bug fixes, and different common enhancements.
