You can write on Amazon’s newest Kindle, Best Buy’s hosting a light show with choreographed drones, and Volvo unveils the EX90 full-electric SUV.

Amazon’s Kindle Scribe adds a digital pen to your reading experience

Amazon’s newest e-reader is the Kindle Scribe, which is its biggest digital reading device and also the first to include a stylus.

The stylus is used for data input, of course, which tells you that the Scribe is used for more than just reading books.

Even with a larger, 10.2-inch screen, the Scribe is still a featherweight device, which is important if you’re using it for marathon reading sessions.

And while the Scribe has a stylus, the thing it does best is provide a solid reading experience. The digital ink technology, supported by lights for reading in low light, is the closest you can get to mimicking a book experience.

The addition of the pen adds to the experience, especially if you’re someone who likes to take notes in the margins of your books. With the Scribe you can’t actually write on the book itself, but you can attach a sticky note to any location in the book. You can also use the pen to highlight text.

One drawback to e-ink displays is the slight response lag when turning pages and there’s a lag when you’re writing with the pen, too, but you will acclimatize.

You can opt for a premium pen to get an eraser, which works as expected, and a shortcut button which can be programmed to trigger the action you use most often, like creating a sticky note or highlighting text.

You can also create new documents with the Scribe, and there are a number of templates you can use including schedules and checklists and lined and even music notation.

The other selling point of the Scribe is the ability to annotate PDFs and this feature is great in principle, poor in practice, because it’s just so difficult to get things into and out of the Scribe.

To import or export files, you need to use Amazon’s “send to kindle” service, which is essentially emailing things to yourself. This is a problem easily solved if only Amazon enabled you to log in to a cloud storage account.

The Kindle Scribe starts at $430 (basic pen, 16 GB storage) and goes up to $510 (premium pen, 64 GB storage). You can also get protective covers if you want.

This feels like a great starting point for a nouveau Kindle, but given that you can get a Kindle Paperwhite for $150, it’s difficult to justify the extra expense just to get a stylus.

Drone spectacle comes to Vancouver

Best Buy Canada is bringing some excitement to Vancouver’s Canada Place on December 2 and 3 at 6:00 p.m. in the form of a drone presentation.

Bright Skies is part of Christmas at Canada Place which also includes an “Avenue of Trees”. The 10-minute show will feature more than 300 drones which are choreographed to create holiday-themed animations.

Volvo reveals EX90 full electric SUV

Swedish car manufacturer Volvo has plans to sell only full electric vehicles by 2030, and as part of that amibition is going to reveal a new vehicle each year.

And it started a few weeks ago with the announcement of the Volvo EX90, a seven-seat SUV that the company says will have a 600 kilometre range and the ability to charge to 80% in only 30 minutes.

One of the features that Volvo has built into the EX90 is bi-directional charging. That means it not only pulls electricity into the battery, but it can also push electricity out. Conceivably it could charge another vehicle, or your house.

This isn’t functionality that will be immediately useful and it’s only going to be rolled out in select markets in the beginning. But its inclusion in the EX90 speaks to how the company is looking ahead.

The EX90 is equipped with a host of sensors including cameras, radar, and lidar, and it uses Nvidia’s Drive platform which compiles information from those sensors to “create a real-time, 360-degree view of the world.”