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Originally Posted by HarryT
Lighting is the issue. The larger the screen, the less well the light diffuser works. I don't expect the frontlight on the 7" to be as good as that of the 6", for that reason, but an 8" would definitely be a lot worse. I know of no 8" devices with good frontlighting.
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That's generally true, that a larger e-ink display has less effective lighting, but only when comparing the same LED location. Remember the Oasis has the LEDs running along the side rather than the bottom, resulting in a more even lighting effect because those LEDs are not "firing" across as great a distance as the Voyage or Paperwhite. With 12 LEDs to cover the full height of the display, the Oasis could theoretically have better lighting than any other Kindle model.