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Originally Posted by gldnbrwncouches
The warmer lighting option is a decent start, but I'll be sticking with Kobo for now. When I tested the Oasis 2 against other readers a few months ago, including my new Forma, I found that the Kindle devices just aren't for me. The warmer frontlight is a plus for the new Oasis, but just not enough to make me give up the Overdrive integration, Pocket integration, and library management options that Kobo gives me.
The build quality on my past devices have each been good enough that I haven't really needed something more and the aluminium was nice on the Oasis, but slippery in my hands. Despite the smaller screen size and other drastic differences, even the Clara HD is a win over the Oasis for me, but that's likely a very personal preference. If something were to make me switch to Amazon, it would likely be some of the book options they have that others don't.
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Agreed, it’s very personal. To qualify my preference, I do not use Overdrive, rarely use Pocket. I do like the experimental browser on Kobo better than Kindle — certain blogs I visit (that cannot be scraped) reflow better.
Library management I can live with. Yes, the automatic collection/shelves management within Calibre is very nice, I will miss that. The Oasis was slippery to me too, until I found a great case (Moko... strangely) that negated that. Overall, I find the Oasis to be iPad-esque, including all the Apple-like limitations. Unfortunately even though the warm light won me over to Kobo, the unevenness of it (I read a lot at night) gets on my nerves.
That said, if the Oasis warm light is even and maintains the nice contrast over the Kobos, I’m in — all in.