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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more

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572 points bookofjoe | 6 comments | 16 Oct 24 13:52 UTC | HN request time: 1.189s | source | bottom
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packetlost ◴[16 Oct 24 15:42 UTC] No.41860400[source]▶
The new Kindle Scribe looks kinda lame compared to the new reMarkable Pro, though significantly cheaper. Maybe the colored ePaper isn't that great, but at least you get some color for highlighting, which is probably a non-insignificant use of these types of devices.

Either way, sad there's no Oasis refresh. I'm not super attached to the physical buttons, but I'd prefer it to not. Oh well.

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1. thimabi ◴[16 Oct 24 16:22 UTC] No.41860951[source]▶
I wonder why they did not add color e-ink to the Kindle Scribe. Maybe they thought the price would be prohibitively expensive?
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2. gamblor956 ◴[16 Oct 24 22:46 UTC] No.41864634[source]▶
Color e-ink (both versions) isn't yet fast enough to be used for writing. Boox and Remarkable had to do a lot of hacky things to make the experiences usable on their color e-ink devices. (Boox currently uses the older color technology, Remarkable uses the newer one.)
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3. thimabi ◴[16 Oct 24 23:01 UTC] No.41864760[source]▶
That makes sense. Another comment pointed out that even the resolution of colored content (150 ppi) is half that of black-and-white content (300 ppi). Trying to take notes with bad refresh rates and lower resolution would not make for a good experience.
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4. AlanYx ◴[17 Oct 24 13:08 UTC] No.41869316{3}[source]▶
It's only Kaleido that halves the resolution of colored content. The RM Pro is Gallery 3 and offers full-resolution color.
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5. _ph_ ◴[17 Oct 24 14:07 UTC] No.41869826{4}[source]▶
Though, the RM Pro has 229 ppi vs. the 300ppi for the scribe. So for black and white text, the scribe still has a small edge. But it would of course be cool, if the scribe eventually gets color at 300ppi.
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6. AlanYx ◴[17 Oct 24 14:37 UTC] No.41870096{5}[source]▶
In practice the resolution doesn't make a huge difference. (I've got both 300ppi and 207ppi BW e-ink devices and the antialiasing/gamma strategy makes more of a difference than the resolution.)

But a bigger difference is that Gallery 3 uses CMYW pigments; there's no black pigment, rather the microcapsules themselves are tinted black on one end, so the black ultimately ends up a little impure. Also there are only 4 shades of grey for antialiasing rather than 16.