So I've been playing with my Oasis off and on since I got it yesterday,
and I went to the pop-up store this afternoon and got to mess with a Voyage. Here's some thoughts (and I'll try, probably unsuccessfully, to be succinct).
I like the Oasis. It's a no brainer that it's leaps and bounds better than the Kindle Keyboard. It's very responsive, even when flipping it to my left hand, and the light is very, very even (a ridiculous improvement over a clip-on light). I can be anal, so if I look closely I can see where the light fades a bit, but when reading, eh, who cares?
The resolution improvement overall is a big difference, and the Bookerly font is nice. I believe the main font for the Kindle Keyboard is heavier than Bookerly, so that's an interesting change. Caecillia appears a little heavier, so I may try that too and see what I think long term.
A lot of my sideloaded books are not showing the covers, so I'll have to decide if I want to fix that problem, or just keep the thing in list view and forget it. If I decide to mess with it, what are the recommended specs for cover images, which I assume I can just add to the book file via Calibre?
My wife, who has a first generation Paperwhite, doesn't like the excessive thinness, and finds where she wants to rest her hands ends up touching the screen, and then accidentally changing the pages. She's missed having physical buttons ever since moving to the PW from her Kindle 2, but doesn't seem to like the other design choices of the Oasis to consider getting one.
So we looked at the Voyage at the store, and I was surprised that the haptic buttons were rather weak (I cranked the vibration up, but it was still very light). Everything else about it was fine, but since its design is so similar to the PW, I wonder if it's worth the price increase, just to get the smooth surface (i.e. no bezel), the auto light adjustment, and some extra LEDs.
Back to my Oasis: for one book I already had to use ";ReadingTimeReset" because it was incorrect. Also, I noticed for David Copperfield that the page numbers do not show on my Oasis. They do on my Kindle Keyboard (and the Amazon page confirms they're included) so any suggestions on to fix that for my Oasis would be welcome:
https://www.amazon.com/David-Copperf.../dp/B004GHNIQQ
Although expensive, it is a great little device, and I'm looking forward to trying to stop looking at it with such a critical eye, and get down to some reading!
-HM