The 3rd-generation Kindle Scribe e-notebooks offer several useful AI features that help users get work done. These features are exclusively found on the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Kindle Scribe with Frontlight, and the upcoming Kindle Scribe without Frontlight. It remains to be seen whether any or all of these AI systems will eventually be ported to the 2nd-generation Kindle Scribe or even to the first model released in 2022.
The notebooks in Kindle Scribe don’t just let you take notes; they help you organize your thoughts and ideas. These AI-powered notebook features, available on the new Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft in the U.S., enable you to quickly find, summarize, and act on your notes.
Share notes with Alexa
With Send to Alexa, you can seamlessly send notebooks and documents from your Kindle Scribe to Alexa. Simply share notebooks and documents from your Kindle Scribe to Alexa, and they’ll be ready for you to access on Alexa.com, in the Alexa app, and on compatible devices, such as Echo and Fire TV*. Once shared, Alexa can help you brainstorm, summarize your notes, and turn ideas into action. Get summaries, suggested priorities, and guidance on getting started with projects. Alexa can even transform your notes into to-do lists, calendar events, and reminders, so nothing slips your mind.
Find what you need with AI-powered notebook search
As of early 2026, the Amazon Kindle Scribe has been upgraded with significant AI-powered notebook features designed to enhance searchability and content organization. These updates aim to transform handwritten notes into structured, actionable, and easily searchable content, effectively turning the device into a “smart” notebook.
AI summarizes Kindle Scribe notebooks for quick insights
The notebook summarization feature, powered by generative AI and built into the Kindle Scribe, lets you quickly create a summary of your notes. Directly from your notebook, you can quickly convert pages and pages of notes into concise bullets that summarize your thoughts in an easily shareable format. The feature extracts key takeaways and produces a concise summary of your notes. Your notebook summaries are converted into a script font, maintaining the look and feel of handwriting while making them legible for the friend or colleague you share it with. Now you can spend less time sifting through pages of writing, trying to identify and pull out the main points, and more time capturing new ideas or turning thoughts into actions.
Refine your notes to easily share with others
If you’re hurriedly scribbling or don’t have the tidiest handwriting, our new refinement feature converts your handwritten notes into a script font for a more elegant look. While you’re in a notebook, just click the AI icon and select “Refine writing.” Your handwritten notes are quickly converted into a script font and inserted back into your notebook, making them easier to read and review. If inspiration strikes and you want to make changes, you can still edit and update your refined notes. Want to make changes to your refined notes? Use your pen to write anything you want to add and erase any notes you want removed. Our notebook refinement feature cleans up your chicken scratch, making it easier to read, review, and share your notes with friends and colleagues.
Story so Far and Ask this Book
Amazon will also release new AI-powered reading features. One is called Story So Far that lets you catch up on the book you’re reading—but only up to where you’ve read, without any spoilers. Ask this Book will let you highlight any passage of text while reading a book and get spoiler-free answers to questions about things like a character’s motive or the significance of a scene. These features will be available for thousands of Kindle books in the U.S. You’ll be able to access these features on books you’ve purchased or borrowed on the Kindle iOS app later this year and on all 11th and 12th-generation Kindle devices early next year.
Michael Kozlowski has written about audiobooks, e-books and e-readers for the past eighteen years. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
