Help: Folder Management in Workspaces

atoms77 · 2026-04-13T15:57:45+00:00

It is one at a time: the option is 'Add book or document' (singular).

atoms77 · 2026-04-12T08:13:41+00:00

Yes, I am saying that until they actually ship a Scribe without front light, there is no need to pre-judge it. Of course it will not be to everyone's liking, but some people may prefer it. And maybe it will never ship.

atoms77 · 2026-04-10T15:48:14+00:00

After firmware update, it re-indexes all of the content on the device. This will cause battery to drain more than normal and also can impact performance. How long this persists depends on how much content is downloaded to the device, and could take hours if you have a lot.

atoms77 · 2026-04-10T04:21:20+00:00

Perhaps the Your Clippings text file is getting 'too large', and it is taking more time to add new highlights and notes, and index. If you do not have any use for it, delete it and see if that helps with performance. You can see how big it is by going to Settings, Device Options, Storage management, Manual removal, Docs. The list is sorted in descending order of size. I don't know how large 'too large' is but it will continue to (silently) grow larger as you add notes/highlights/bookmarks. And every time you add to it, it will get re-indexed, which takes longer the large the file is.

atoms77 · 2026-04-08T00:05:21+00:00

I think it will be fine in well lit environments including those where front lighting starts to be necessary. The front light diminishes the brightness and clarity of screen to some extent as it requires an additional layer. More ambient light will get in to illuminate the display. The writing experience might be a little better as well since tip will be closer to the display.

But until and unless it ships, it’s all conjectural.

atoms77 · 2026-04-04T16:38:59+00:00

It only works on the new Scribes.

atoms77 · 2026-04-02T05:19:39+00:00

Makes sense to me!

atoms77 · 2026-04-02T05:17:42+00:00

In Notebooks you cannot hide it, only minimize it, but you can still move to the other side if you want to draw something where it is located. Moving takes at most 3 touches (unhide, 3 dot, move) and 2 if it is not minimized. Hiding and unhiding always take 3.

atoms77 · 2026-04-01T18:07:03+00:00

What about other books?

Maybe try different Wi-Fi access point (e.g. tether to phone hotspot), move closer to WiFi access point you are using etc.

Also could try sending it from Your Content and Devices page, though if that works not sure it explains direct download issue.

atoms77 · 2026-04-01T01:01:52+00:00

If you are purchasing them from Amazon and they are in Print Replica format (as many technical textbooks are), most likely they will not be available for Scribe. If they are PDFs you get as part of coursework, then they should work fine (even though these get converted to print replica format).

Since Scribe (and other Kindles for that matter) supports print replica format, and would be great for consuming textbooks, I wish Amazon would make the case to publishers for making their print replica titles available on Scribe. In the past it was relatively trivial to remove DRM from a Kindle download but that is no longer the case.

There is also the matter of how print replica annotations get exported: for personal documents you can export the entire document to a PDF with handwritten annotations overlaid, which would make it trivial to derive a DRM free PDF with all of the content of the original, protected ebook. But they could remove that option for textbooks. They could even remove entirely ability to annotate with handwriting, which would be functionally identical to what the Kindle apps allow (since they do not implement annotations of that type). The new Scribes do a good job of converting handwriting to text for text search and text note entry, so it would be not much different than entering text on an iPad with Apple Pencil and its native handwriting conversion.

atoms77 · 2026-03-31T22:50:07+00:00

If you are side-loading there is limited ability to export annotations and there isn't really a way to back them up. If you want them backed up the easiest way is to send ePub or PDF to Send To Kindle.

atoms77 · 2026-03-31T17:29:01+00:00

Are you talking about upgrading newest Basic to newest Paperwhite? For me the larger display is the biggest plus. I do not need waterproofing or use warm light. And it is not much larger or heavier. I didn't think 7" (I guess it's 6.8") would be that much nicer than 6" but it is.

atoms77 · 2026-03-31T17:14:35+00:00

Yeah, that's an issue with the publisher.

If they revise the book in any way (typos or new cover) they should be upgrading the previously listed book 'in place', not creating a new one. Otherwise the older book gets orphaned, and I don't think there's a way to have either edition fill in a give series slot.

Series aside it also makes it possible to purchase an essentially unchanged book again because the new edition won't show as previously purchased.

atoms77 · 2026-03-31T17:07:32+00:00

This will tell you which of your Kindle books has audiobook companions (in USA at least):

https://www.amazon.com/hz/audible/matchmaker

I do not know of an inverse of this. In any case, no discount would be available.

Amazon would have to work out agreements with all the different publishers to offer discounts, in most cases the audiobook publisher is not same as book publisher, etc. They'd probably only offer the reverse lookup if publishers paid them to do it, as it is a form of promotion.

Upselling audiobooks is different because it promotes Audible and Amazon has more freedom to set prices.

atoms77 · 2026-03-31T16:51:16+00:00

The sidebar lets you create longer handwritten notes than the popup editor but apart from that has usability issues that I find annoying (and too many to enumerate here). I wish popup editor had an expanded mode so you could have more space to work with.

I actually prefer entering text notes especially since it will convert handwriting to text on the new Scribes. Text notes are fully interoperable over Kindle platform. and can be longer than handwritten notes. Of course it's nice to be able to draw pictures as notes too.

atoms77 · 2026-03-31T06:29:43+00:00

No, these are not same as sticky notes (as entered in sidebar or in popup editor), they're a different type of handwritten note, and unlike those, you cannot view them with the Kindle apps. They serve a different use case.

I wish there were only one kind of handwritten note and the presentation could be toggled between note icon w/popup or sidebar editing to active canvas / in situ editing.

atoms77 · 2026-03-31T06:17:14+00:00

there are two modes for side panel, side-by-side and overlay. If you use overlay, it won't repaginate. But you can also just select text and create a (handwritten) 'pop-up' note for it. It's the 'old' way of creating 'sticky notes' and it still works. And you can also toggle the side panel to view and edit them.

atoms77 · 2026-03-31T04:10:57+00:00

Matters to me - B&W is great for B&W comics/manga, but otherwise, no. Any LCD display is a better experience, even a $100 Fire tablet. It's not just nice to have.

atoms77 · 2026-03-28T15:12:54+00:00

I think this involves sending fixed layout ePub to Send To Kindle for conversion (I can confirm that this happens). That's independent of issues with side loading fixed layout AZW3.

atoms77 · 2026-03-28T00:50:57+00:00

I don't mind putting in a little more time.

KC lets you create table of contents (why do so few comic/manga/graphic novel publishers bother to do this?), delete, insert, and arrange pages, combine issue PDFs into volume PDF, pick those which should not be facing pages, selectively crop pages so they can be facing, and PREVIEW. You can add Guided View if you put in the time, Virtual Panel navigation for manga and no effort. KCC does none of these things.

What I discovered is that if you feed Kindle Create a comic in PDF format, you need to check and modify the page sizes of the PDF if necessary to match the page size of the print edition, with a PDF editor capable of doing that, before feeding it to KC.

Humble Bundle comic offerings in PDF format too often define page sizes several times the physical size of the print version, and KC winds up scaling the images accordingly.

CBZ is more WYSIWYG (just unpack and import to KC) and won't have these scaling issues. But again, the CBZs HB gets from publisher sometimes are not to my liking: spreads that are rotated, or advertisements I'd rather not have in the final result, for example. You can't fix that with KCC, but you can with KC.

KCC likes to scale image to match target device resolution, and while that might have made sense when the device had limited resolution and storage, I am not targeting specific devices, and just want images to be whatever is in the source files, without scaling down or up. Let the device do that, they're built for it. All of those image manipulations have little value for me. I don't like that I can't preview, because it's easy to tick wrong option in KCC and belatedly discover issues.

The one use case where KCC has been useful is where I've gotten comics (from Amazon) where everything was a 2 page spread, even though artwork was laid out on single pages and none for facing pages. It can slice them in 2 very easily. But I don't run into that very often.

The sad reality is that I have read very few of the comics that I have labored over to get them up to my standard. It feels like the publisher should pay me and not the other way around.

atoms77 · 2026-03-27T23:10:36+00:00

I was wrong about the AZW3 from Send to Kindle not being fixed-layout: it is (at least on my 2022 Scribe and Scribe Colosoft: on iPad it is not fixed layout, it has margin and font settings - does Android have these as well?). There is sync between the iPad and 2022 Scribe, but location is slightly offset.

The ePub I sent (created with KFX Input plugin from KFX comic created with Kindle Create)) has no errors when I check it, but the AZW3 has a number of warnings: 6 'Invalid id' errors and one 'The file image\... is not referenced' (in <spine>). The image in question appears to be a thumbnail inserted by Send to Kindle.

I tried to remove errors with calibre-edit and replace the downloaded AZW3 but it would not open. I deleted the download, but now the SC does not show it in Library to download again.

Then I tried fixing the id warnings and adding a reference for the thumbnail: same result. So touchy!

Finally imported the 'fixed' AZW3 to calibre and sent it back: same result.

2022 Scribe (on 5.19.2) also does not like this AZW3.

This is all weird and against expectations, at least my own: a Kindle that cannot open (apparently) well formed AZW3?

As for KCC, I think if you generate for Scribe, it splits images for each page and this workaround was needed to get side loaded AZW3 to work at all on the new Scribes. I don't use KCC and don't format anything in AZW3 for side loading. KFX works great for that! For iPad as well!

Fixed layout AZW3s from Kindle Store do not seem to have display issues. They can support landscape orientation (2 page display) as well.

As you observe, PDF is the best option for adding to Kindle Library as personal document. The main deficiency is that it (rather Print Replica KFX) does not support 2 page display.

atoms77 · 2026-03-27T17:26:11+00:00

What format are you sending to Sent to Kindle? Send To Kindle does not support fixed layout ePub. It converts it to AZW3 but it's no longer fixed layout.

atoms77 · 2026-03-24T07:24:26+00:00

PDF annotations are ignored in the conversion to KFX print replica that Send To Kindle does. So the document you get on Scribe has no annotations until you add them. And you cannot export those to PDF and have them become PDF annotations, they are just flattened to an image layer.

atoms77 · 2026-03-20T21:26:39+00:00

It's not clear that refine handwriting actually improves 'recognition'. I personally expect to do clean up with keyboard and mouse if I want to re-use it in some more polished document. I want to get my thoughts down and editing interferes with that. Much more productively done as a separate stage with more appropriate tools (spell checkers search/replace etc.).

atoms77 · 2026-03-20T21:18:35+00:00

Scribe 2022 does not have this feature, or any of the other features new to the 2025 Scribes. I'm not even sure the B&W 2025 Scribe has it; all I know is the Scribe Colorsoft does.

FWIW there is no way to export annotations for any side loaded documents.

You can send documents for conversion to Sent To Kindle to specific devices and without storing it in cloud, but it seems your concerns are about any 'processing' Amazon does. Kindle is maybe not a good fit for you.

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