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Originally Posted by Yolina
It's good for my bank account that I hate the Oasis so much  Even if I were given one, I don't think I'd use it. |
Yup, me too.
To me, all of the features being touted are just marketing spin on the consequences of making it lighter at all costs. And I find the Paperwhite thin and light enough already. (I think designers place too much importance on this because I have a Samsung tablet that feels a little too thin and flimsy.)
Again for
me, the "features" of this design are things I'm indifferent to at best (the lighting) or find inconvenient (flipping to switch hands) or actually dislike (the book-style cover).
The longer battery life claim is really annoying to me because I have a Paperwhite 2 which Amazon also said had the same 8 weeks of battery life. "Months" as in exactly two. Under conditions that never apply to me. If I only read for a 1/2 hour, it's a day I was crazy busy. And I usually only use airplane mode when I'm on an airplane.
Obviously, battery life isn't that critical to me. I have other things I don't mind charging more often. But the marketing spin bugs me. Of course, they are going to play everything up. But if I had a day when I did nothing but read for most of it, I might need to stop and put the cover on negating the weight advantage (or sit tethered to an outlet). Whereas, I think my Paperwhite would outlast me every time even in my longest reading session. And it's 32g lighter than Oasis with cover.
I'm fine with others who think the features and the price are worth it, but I'm personally disappointed. It's like they used a focus group of people that are my absolute polar opposites. Hopefully, Kobo's next reader will be much more appealing to me.