Oasis makes noise when turning page

[coy]

Like coil noise as known maybe from some monitors, GPUs or generally laptops/computers.

[WilliamG]

Boy the Oasis is sounding better and better as every thread is posted!

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by WilliamG

Boy the Oasis is sounding better and better as every thread is posted!

Everything containing a transformer will make noise as the power draw changes, and unless everything in the Kindle accepts current at the same voltage (which is perfectly possible) it will contain at least one transformer, which will make flyback noise. This is completely normal (and, indeed, unavoidable, unless they find some new way of making transformers which does not involve magnetic coupling and induction, or make them out of some new material which does not move at all when stressed, or put the transformers in vacuum). It is certain that the Kindle charger will be making a noise when it is active: it definitely contains a transformer.

I don't have anywhere in the house quiet enough to hear any noise from my Oasis, for what it's worth -- but I don't live in the middle of nowhere, and I have things like fridges running in my house and making tiny increments of background noise, so it's possible I'm missing it.

[newkindlefun]

So it's perfectly possible you won't hear it unless you're reading in the dead of night in your bedroom or a similar setting?

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by newkindlefun

So it's perfectly possible you won't hear it unless you're reading in the dead of night in your bedroom or a similar setting?

In the dead of night, with no lights on, in your bedroom, in the middle of nowhere miles from any traffic or significant habitation? (I'll be in just that situation in a few months and will listen out. It's dead quiet there... or at least it is until the sodding temporally-impaired cockerel starts crowing at about 3am.)

[coy]

Originally Posted by newkindlefun

So it's perfectly possible you won't hear it unless you're reading in the dead of night in your bedroom or a similar setting?

The noise is louder the more text has to be rendered, and especially the smaller the chosen font is. I heard it with silence in the house/city, sure you hear it at a night's read in bed. I had a lot of readers/Kindles, never got this before. I know coil noise from an old laptop and hires monitor.

[newkindlefun]

That sure won't help their marketing spiel about making the e-reader disappear.

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by newkindlefun

That sure won't help their marketing spiel about making the e-reader disappear.

Depends whether each reader needs buttons more than quiet. Aging hands which really want the buttons back, may not care about the slight noise. I suppose that's why there is still a whole line-up of kindles to choose from.

[newkindlefun]

Oh, I get that. As a reader I might not care enough about the noise to be distracted by it, or if I care, maybe I need the buttons more, as you said. But it IS a point against their completely distraction-free, complete reader immersion thing. Whether it's enough to put off people is another story.

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by newkindlefun

That sure won't help their marketing spiel about making the e-reader disappear.

Doesn't turning a page in a paper book make a noise? (Though it's a different noise.)

[newkindlefun]

Originally Posted by NullNix

Doesn't turning a page in a paper book make a noise? (Though it's a different noise.)

Obviously, yeah. And holding a pbook is definitely noticeable. But they have this whole spiel about making the ereader superextrathin, superextralight and superextrainvisible for "reader immersion". I'm not saying I'm complaining about the noise myself, just that it goes against their philosophy of making the device disappear.

[Kolenka]

Originally Posted by newkindlefun

Oh, I get that. As a reader I might not care enough about the noise to be distracted by it, or if I care, maybe I need the buttons more, as you said. But it IS a point against their completely distraction-free, complete reader immersion thing. Whether it's enough to put off people is another story.

I will say that on mine, it does make the noise, but I have to put my ear up to it in order to hear it, even when things are silent. If it is louder than that, there is either variance in manufacturing, or possibly even a defect. Honestly, I wouldn't have even known that it was a thing without this thread.

[LovesMacs]

For what it's worth, I can hear my Kindle Touch when I turn the page, but only in extremely quiet settings.

[eschwartz]

I can hear my Kindle Touch too.

Of course that requires pressing it to my ear while clicking things, which is hardly likely to be a distracting problem in practice...

[tomsem]

Wear earplugs.