Kindle Scribe review (wonderful, but you cannot even backup your notes) UPDATE: maybe you can, sort of?
The Scribe is a magnificent device in so many ways, and arguably in the most important areas that it will be used for.
Reading
As an e-reader it is quite heavy, but the display is excellent and the reading experience is positive throughout. I feel like I am reading a real book and the ability to see so much readable text on one page really does make a difference. Graphic Novels display as they would on paper, minus colour of course, and more complex documents and books embed images and graphs seamlessly. As a book reader it is brilliant.
Writing
I love writing on the Scribe. The tools are basic at best and have had criticism from other areas, but as a starter the hardware definitely works extremely well. I suspect that further options will be added later via software, but I am more than happy with the note-taking on the Scribe and have found it calming and almost addictive, I never feel this on an iPad with an Apple Pencil.
Reliability
I have never had a problem with a Kindle in the past (they are fairly simple devices technically), but 2 crashes in 3 days has made me think about backups more than I normally would, and as you will see below there is not much of a solution at this time. Comfort comes from reliability and so far I am far from comforted.
Security
It is 2022 and I live in a world where my data is backed up continually. I rarely have to think about this and can work safe in the knowledge that everything I do will be secure if a hardware issue occurs.
On the Kindle Scribe I cannot backup my notes automatically and at best I would have to connect it via a wire to a computer to do so, but seriously- this is 2022. And Amazon support have not been able to even come close to answering the question.
UPDATE: and then I got clarification after a very strange conversation-
If I write hundreds of notes over time and a major hardware issue occurs I am screwed and I am not going back to the days of having to fiddle with connections etc to find notes that I ‘may’ be able to save for future use. That is an omission in my view and a fatal flaw in the Scribe setup. It may be resolved in the future, but what happens today?
Sadly I have no choice and have had to return this quite wonderful product. How bizarre.
UPDATE: The notebooks are stored in your Library and kind of hidden. I found them on my iPhone via the 'More' menu option, but they are mere images of the notes you have taken.