On the September Amazon launch occasion, the retail and residential tech big unveiled a serious new addition to its Amazon Kindle household of ereaders, in what seems to be like the most important shake-up of the road because the Kindle Keyboard.

The Amazon Kindle Scribe is the primary mannequin in a brand new household of ereader, becoming a member of the usual Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis. It’s Amazon’s most premium Kindle but, and brings a notable improve in display measurement and cupboard space over the present fashions – and it additionally introduces a brand-new characteristic to the vary within the type of a stylus.

The Kindle Scribe has a big (for a Kindle) 10.2-inch show, a panel which dwarfs the 7-inch display of the Kindle Oasis, the earlier Kindle heavyweight on this regard. It’s a 300 pixel-per-inch show, matching the decision of its siblings.

Due to this massive display, that is additionally the most important Kindle we’ve seen shortly. Just like the Oasis, it has a big bezel on one facet, so you may simply maintain it, however there’s no outstanding ridge as on the Oasis.

The stylus can be utilized for annotating paperwork, in addition to for note-taking, sketching, and drawing in different apps. Amazon talked about having the ability to ship paperwork to your Kindle out of your cellphone, and, from 2023, from Microsoft Phrase, which suggests the system has higher connectivity than older Kindles.

On the launch occasion Amazon stated the system was designed for note-taking and journaling, with the stylus designed to really feel like an actual pen in use. It would not have a battery, so would not should be charged, which provides it a giant benefit over the Apple Pencil and related pill slates.

This isn’t the primary ereader we’ve ever seen with a stylus – fashions from manufacturers like Onyx and Kobo additionally provide them – however that is the primary Amazon Kindle with such an adjunct.

Past that, the Kindle Scribe comes with both 16GB, 32GB or 64GB storage, matching choices provided by the Paperwhite, however with no 8GB choice, and including a high-storage model that is new for Kindle, marking one more shocking improve.

The system will price $339.99 within the US, which additionally will get you Kindle Limitless bundled for 4 months, and the pen is included within the value reasonably than having to be bought individually. We’re ready to listen to about costs and availability elsewhere, and we’ll replace this text once we get that info.

It is a main shake-up to the Kindle line and to Amazon’s ereader technique, and we’re eager to check the brand new ereader, so look out for our hands-on after which full, in-depth evaluations. We’re to see whether or not the Scribe is the Kindle reinvention it guarantees to be, and whether or not it makes it into our line-up of the very best ereaders.