After two months of fiddling with Amazon's Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, we can confirm it's a delightful gadget - if you're a very specific kind of note-taking, journaling, PDF-annotating enthusiast with a spare $630 burning a hole in your pocket. For everyone else, it's a pretty paperweight.

The device starts at a wallet-crushing $630 (available in Black and Fig, a shade of purple that screams 'I'm a creative'), weighs a featherlight 400 grams, and sports an 11-inch display that's roughly the size of a sheet of paper. It's impressively thin, but let's be real: you're not one-handing this thing. Our reviewer found it most comfortable propped on knees or flat on a desk, which kind of defeats the 'portable reader' vibe.

Speaking of portability, the Scribe Colorsoft's size meant it never left the house. It's not a device you'd whip out during an Uber ride or in a waiting room. But if you're a student, researcher, or someone who genuinely enjoys color-coded planners, you might actually want to lug it to the office or a coffee shop.

The larger screen does have perks: more room for writing, sketching, and reading PDFs. But it also sacrifices that cozy, intimate reading feel that makes smaller Kindles so appealing. And while the color display is fun, colors look more like soft highlighter shades than vibrant tablet hues - so comics won't pop like they should.

For note-takers, the Scribe Colorsoft shines. The included Kindle Scribe Pen attaches magnetically, feels nice, and has an eraser that works almost instantly. You can create a color-coded digital planner or reading journal, with templates for daily, weekly, and monthly planning. Highlighting books in different colors - say, blue for plot details, red for quotable lines - is a breeze thanks to a fast refresh rate.

Battery life? Excellent. Our reviewer charged it only twice in two months, though writing does drain more power than reading. All in all, this device is perfect for a niche audience: students, researchers, and journalers who want one device for reading, annotating, and organizing handwritten notes. For the rest of us, the $630 price tag is a hard pass. If you're just upgrading an old Kindle, stick with the Paperwhite at $159.99 - it'll do the job without the premium price.