The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a new breed of e-readers from Amazon. Aside from being your reading companion, it also wants to double as your trusty note-taking device. And it does a terrific job at ...

Amazon has been slow to update the Kindle; it only just added one with a color screen. The Kindle Scribe was a similar attempt to follow trends, but it's too large to be useful for everyone.

If you love taking notes while reading or scribbling in journals, you may not have considered a digital e-book reader as, in the past, these haven’t had stylus pen support or note-taking abilities.