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Amazon Kindle Scribe
First Amazon came for the regular books; now it wants to make jotters feel like something from the olden days too. The Kindle Scribe comes with a special stylus that allows you to draw on its 10.2in 300dpi E Ink screen, whether that’s annotating a book with digital sticky notes, marking up a PDF or Word doc you’ve imported via the Kindle app or a web browser, or using the built-in notebook to a create a list of every person who has ever wronged you and how you’re going to get revenge.
Chuck Jeff Bezos an extra £30 (and boy does he need it) and you’ll get an upgraded Premium Pen, which has an eraser on the end and a shortcut button that can switch between writing and highlighting, or open up a new note.
At more than 3in bigger than any other Kindle in terms of screen size, the Scribe will feel more like a tablet to hold than a normal e-reader, but it only weighs 433g (the same-sized iPad is just over 50g heavier), and of course you get access to the same vast library of books. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’ve got some vendettas to plan.