It certainly grew on me. It's my main preference now, and go check out how I felt at the beginning of this thread.
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Originally Posted by henders254
I bought and returned the oasis when it first came out and am still using the 2012 paperwhite. I found that for all side loaded books (converted via calibre), there's not a lot of line margin/ gap compared to pw1. There were shadows in dark room coming from the right hand side of the device which was just distracting and gets in the way of reading. Not sure amazon has fixed this. There's also a lot of fiddling around with putting the cover on and off. I found the weight with cover same as pw1 with cover. it still doesn't have blue light blocking mechanism. battery doesn't last any longer than pw1.
I also found it cumbersome to hold in bed with one side bigger than the other.
Bottom line: there's not much difference between 2012 pw1 and oasis that's worth paying 4 times more.
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The answer is horizontal mode. The main visual discrepancy (cones and "shadows" from them if that's what you're referencing? I'm still honestly new to a lot of this..) is on the side when using it in normal mode. Therefore if it's bad on your particular device, you'll see it every time you get to the end of a line. In the horizontal layout you'll only slightly see it when you read at the bottom of the page on the last one or two sentence lines. This is only really when reading at night with the brightness turned up. And even then in this case, on mine, it's not very noticeable at all and doesn't bug me. But yeah, I get it. We're paying a premium so you'd expect no visual discrepancies at all.
Anyway, horizontal layout gives you fat wide margins on a tiny super light device with symmetrical and even weight - coupled with awesome ergonomics. Kobo readers boast about the fat margins but those devices are bigger and heavier, and you can probably have about the same margin length with the Oasis horizontal (would need someone who has used both to verify). In terms of ergonomics, the "handle bulge" part of it runs all along the bottom, perfectly symmetrical and balanced, and you can hook your pointer finger right at the base of the bulge. Like a lever you hold most of the weight at the bottom based into your hand, and the light screen part is effortless to hold up. Also, you can have your thumb horizontally across both buttons in an easy comfortable manner, being able to quickly move pages back or forward without needing any type of repositioning. And since it's symmetrical it's the exact same comfortable positioning if you swap hands. For lighting at night and sleep I just wear specific orange glasses that block harmful blue light; the Oasis screen is dim orange for me in this scenario.
Latest pic of the duo:
That cheap $6 stand off amazon can hold the Oasis too - so I don't agree with arguments I've seen saying the Oasis is bad for when you're eating compared to a Voyager with the Origami cover. Stand is off center in the pic to bug the OCD people (but in all honesty I'm the OCD one and didn't notice at first).
