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Successful doesn't necessarily mean good. the UI is slow. It crashes with large books. The hardware is seemingly under-powered. The OS degrades in usability over time. Search indexing is poor. The lack of responsiveness makes the keyboard unusable.

I've heard similar pitfalls about Kindle Scribe, the write-able Kindle.

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I use a Kindle Scribe almost every day, have read dozens and dozens of books and documents on it. Maybe we have different expectations but I love mine and take it everywhere. It's never crashed.

When I am trying to focus on reading a book, I appreciate that the Kindle doesn't have too many bells and whistles. I don't want notifications popping off and the distraction of fast Internet access.

The Kindle Scribe is way more expensive than normal kindles (and has to handle the more computationally demanding task of vector graphics), so it would have a faster processor, and would be able to handle ebooks way easier than a cheap Kindle.

Not saying you're wrong, just that your anecdote doesn't mean much about $100/$50 Kindles.

I looked into Scribe and it sounds like they upgraded the hardware to making writing more responsive. that's good news.

Sounds like my Kobo Glo from 2013.

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