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. Apart from that the two ereaders are identical.Īs you can see from the image above, the Oasis’s most distinctive feature is its asymmetry. 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.

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