Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe (3rd Gen) Review (2025)

Like the Colorsoft and other similar colored e-readers, the Scribe Colorsoft has 150 ppi (pixels per inch) for color and 300 ppi for black and white. It has a new quad-core chip that promises to support both the color display and various AI features that the Scribe has or will soon have (more on that below). You’ll get 10 colors for your pens, including black and gray, and five highlight colors. You can use these colors both on the Workspace tab and on your ebooks, allowing you to highlight and underline in any color you want.

Kindle Scribe Colorsoft’s new shader tool

Photography: Nena Farrell

You will also get a new tool for drawing. You’ll get the pen styles we saw in the previous generation (pen, nib, marker, and pencil), but now there’s a new shader tool that lets you layer light shades of color on top of each other for a more detailed, almost watercolor-like look. I’m not sure it’s a tool I’ll use often. I wouldn’t call the Colorsoft Scribe a true drawing tablet, and I would still prefer to draw with Procreate on my old iPad if I were to work on digital art, but it’s a nice feature to have.

A bigger brain

The Summarize tool in action

Photography: Nena Farrell

Both new Kindle Scribes have larger storage capacity (there’s no longer a 16GB option, just 32GB and 64GB) and a new quad-core chip that promises to support the Scribe’s various AI-based features, including things like summarizing your notebook page or sharpening your writing, which you can do on the older Scribe. New AI-powered features, like Story So Far, which summarizes the books you read up to the time you read them, and Ask This Book, which lets you ask spoiler-free questions about the books you read, won’t be available until next year.