It can be set to show white, black, or sepia-toned pages. The 7-inch square screen is backlit with embedded LEDs, meaning you don’t have to rely on your own lights. Now, let’s talk about the internal features. Also, a little irritatingly, it charges using a micro-USB port so I can’t use my phone’s USB-C charger on it. Listening to audiobooks has to be done via Bluetooth headphones. You may have noticed, however, that there’s no headphone jack. Essentially: it’s ridiculously light, very slim, won’t fit into a pocket but will fit almost everywhere else. The measurements are shown above, but for a real-life comparison, it’s about the length and weight of my Samsung S10. That’s also because you don’t want a £200-device smashing on the floor. The metal can show fingerprints pretty easily, though, so I’d recommend adding a case. It’s made of a smooth cool brushed aluminium, and comes in the colours ‘graphite’ (AKA black) and ‘champagne gold’ (AKA pink). In my opinion, the whole thing is very pretty. The humped side also has two buttons to turn the pages. An internal gyroscope will flip the page around to accommodate for left-handed or right-handed readers, so you aren’t trapped gripping the device with a hand you don’t favour. One side is raised in a hump to make one-handed reading easier. If you get this, you can expect to be using it for a good few years.Īs you can see from the image above, the Oasis’s most distinctive feature is its asymmetry. My old Kindle Keyboard still works perfectly after over a decade, and there are pretty much zero changes between my own ninth gen device and the tenth gen one. Unlike with other electronics, your Kindle won’t become obsolete in a hurry. But I will say that price-wise, I think it’s a good investment. UK buyers are lucky here, since we don’t get those.Īs you’ll have gathered by this point in my Kindle Oasis review, the ereader is expensive. Those are basically ads that show up on the lock screen every time you close your Kindle. For all but the last model, Americans will also have to pay an extra $20 not to have to see ‘Special Offers’. The absolute max model – 32 GB plus free 4G connection so you don’t have to wait for WiFi to download books – will set you back by £320 or $350. This increases to £260 and $280 respectively for 32 GB storage. The starting model, which has 8 GB storage, clocks in at £229.99 for the UK and $249.99 for the U.S. To deal with the most important issue first: How much does the Kindle Oasis cost? The thicker side means I can hold it with one hand. Apart from that the two ereaders are identical. There’s now the option to have a warm sepia tone to the screen, rather than plain white, and there are 25 embedded LEDs lighting up the screen rather than 12. Although the latest model is a 2019 tenth-generation, the changes are very minimal. I was happy with it, but its existence was abruptly terminated when I dropped it into the bath in 2017.Īnd then came my current Kindle: a ninth generation Oasis I purchased two years ago for my 18th birthday. There was no built-in light in the touchscreen (Amazon does now offer this feature even in its entry level models). Next in my lineup was the super-basic Kindle 8 I bought in 2016. My little brother still uses it today, which just goes to show that these things are built to last. It wouldn’t have won any prizes for beauty, but it got the job done. I personally have been using various Kindle devices for about a decade, dating back to when my dad first bought the Kindle Keyboard in 2010. After all, there are a host of cheaper ereaders out there including the Paperwhite, also sold by Amazon. But what this Kindle Oasis review aims to examine is whether or not it’s actually worth it. There’s no doubt that Amazon’s flagship device is one of the most expensive ereaders available on the market today. She can be contacted by email at All posts by Namera Tanjeem You can find her over at her blog, The Literary Invertebrate. Namera is currently an English student at the University of Cambridge who loves romance novels, Harry Potter, true crime stories, and cats.
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