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Originally Posted by CRussel
Arrgghhh. I was having a really bad week, and I just succumbed to Retail Therapy and bought the new Oasis. I know I don't need a new Kindle, but I _wanted it_. And no, I don't really have buyer's remorse, but I do feel like I let down the side a bit and succumbed to my (undoubted) addiction.
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Shouldn't be a problem if you can afford it without problems. I've had the same with the Aura ONE.
I've started e-reading again on a Kindle Touch in 2011. No light, and only 6 inch, were the only two real drawbacks of the KT. The font customization of the Kobo's was just a wannahave. Then the KPW1 was released the year after, and I bought it on release date (in Germany), because of the front-light.
In general, I've been happy with it, except for the fact that after one of the firmware updates, Amazon messed up the font sizes; often size 4 is too small now, and size 5 for the same book is too big.
The next four years, all releases were 'meh'. Functionality added that I didn't want or need. Marginal, tiny improvements (imho) to existing functions and features. Then the Aura HD came out, and I was interested, but got deterred by the weird backside it had. Then the H2O was released, and I was interested even more.... but decided that the 6 -> 6.8 inch step was too small.
Then the Aura ONE came out, and I've ordered it as soon as it appeared in Dutch stores. I literally had bookmarked some pages of different stores where I normally buy, and I ordered as soon as one of them went from 'pre-order' to 'in stock'.
I admit it: with the KA1, I was *greedy*, and it has paid off. After being able to work around the bugs in full screen mode, I now positively *LOVE* this device. (Maybe I'll re-install the Font Freedom patch to be able to test more fonts.)
I will be using this reader for a long, long time... the only way I can see myself going back to Amazon is when they release an 8 inch Kindle, with more fonts and font weight customization.
(I don't care for any extra functionality. Facebook, Twitter, on-reader store, library, Push, Pocket, games, browser, highlighting, annotations, Wordwise, X-Ray... all are useless to me, though I can understand other people may want them.)