All the design choices that Amazon made didn't work for me as I would have liked.
1. The asymmetric design felt novel at the beginning until you want to change hands holding the Kindle and just rotating it all the time was not only not intuitive, but cumbersome. Really, this design and Its squarish shape limit the number of ways you can hold the Kindle.
2. The lighting on the side gave the Oasis I received light cones that were more distracting than the color shifts on my Voyage. It also resulted to less contrast on the Oasis as compared to the Voyage.
3. I sorely miss the light sensor and not having to adjust the lighting myself.
4. The cover is abysmal. It feels cheap. It was hard enough to rotate the Kindle by itself when changing hands. Having the cover made it worse.
Sent this one back. I'm sticking with my Voyage.
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