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Originally Posted by JSWolf
TBH, I don't get the Oasis. I don't see what's special about it. I get the Voyage and the PW3, but why the Oasis?
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It is a bit niche, but it does have a place in my opinion. It fits my needs fairly well, at least. Now that my Kindle has had time to "settle down" and for me to get into a bit of a more normal usage pattern, I am getting the battery life that Amazon says I should be getting, without having to turn WiFi off like they say they do when they do the measurements, thanks to the hibernation feature. So I'm not really having issues there.
But here's the thing, it is the best one-handed reader I've used in a very long time. The closest up to this point that does it this comfortably were the 5" readers from Sony and Kobo a while back. But this does it with a 6" screen. Despite the weight, I don't mind reading using it one handed with the cover either. The whole thing is just more compact, which makes it more comfortable for me to hold. That is worth something to me. The fact that I can remove the cover and get one of the lightest readers on the market is a nice bonus, but I'm finding that I don't
need to pull it out of the cover to be happy with the reading experience. But around the house, I find myself using the cover as where it goes when I'm not reading it.
The Oasis is a weird duck, but none of the trade offs are really a problem for me. I wouldn't recommend it unless someone was seriously thinking about it already though. Because the Voyage is quite good. But if someone was looking to the Oasis for its strengths, and weren't too concerned about the weaknesses, it is a really good Kindle.
Although, there's always the QC fun of new Kindles. Joy.