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There was a 35-year gap between Joseph Nicephore Niepce taking the world's first black-and-white photograph and James Clerk Maxwell working out how to do it in colour, but Amazon has taken a fraction of that time to convert its Kindle Scribe.

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Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft

Just three years after introducing its first e-reader you could write on, it's launched an 11in Colorsoft version. As well as injecting extra life into pictures, this also means the bundled stylus can scribble away in 10 different colours or five highlighter hues, while a shading tool lets you add gradients.

Wordsmiths can also jot down notes and use the Al-powered search to find them later, while support for Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive makes it easy to import files for annotation.

With a daily half-hour of writing or drawing, the battery should last about two weeks, and the same amount of reading should extend that to as much as seven weeks - plenty of time to get through that book you've got about the history of photography, especially now you can skip a couple of chapters.

As hot as... Barry Manilow in 1974 from £570/go.stuff.tv/ScribeCS.

THE BEST OF BOTH WHIRLEDS Philips Fidelio FT1

If you grew up watching The Big Breakfast, playing Snake on your Nokia 3210 and drinking Tab Clear, chances are you're technologically marooned between the analogue and digital eras: unwilling to part ways with your CD and vinyl collection, but also happy to embrace the convenience of streaming.

Philips must have a soft spot for Mr Blobby and Tamagotchis too because it's crammed all the tech, both ancient and modern, into the FT1.