My Kindle Oasis Has Arrived

[dafire]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Me, too.

I still consider that a price that was more than justified, at that time.

yeah ... and I had to drive to the hanover customs office to pick it up and explain that it's not an mp3 player and that it's not a pda and they still had to debate what customs I would have to pay for my sony prs 505 .) they had never seen an ereader before.

[NullNix]

Originally Posted by Popup

I'm a bit miffed that they removed Futura, but I love the new font Ember.

Futura is back in 5.7.4.

[Raptwithal]

Originally Posted by Jason90

Just to make one final point here eschwartz if you shall be so courteous, oh grand wizard of MR.

Regardless of vegans buying the leather cases, the cows are still going to be killed for consumption for me and my other meat eating friends,your just using the remains of MY meal,that's all so no need for vegans to feel bad about having a nice leather kindle case

Jason90 has just confirmed that reading books does not assure that a person will grow in tolerance, kindness, or in empathy toward innocent victims of needless violence.

[Phogg]

Originally Posted by Raptwithal

Jason90 has just confirmed that reading books does not assure that a person will grow in tolerance, kindness, or in empathy toward innocent victims of needless violence.

Cows are tastey. There is never any needless violence involved.

Also, to save the cows you need to abandon items manufactured with processes using hydraulics. That would include most metals and plastics. Decades ago hydraulic fluids moved to focusing on various forms of glycol. ..which is made using stearic acid...which in turn is rendered from the stomachs of cows.

So do be consistant.

[emellaich]

I can tell several of you really want to discuss this vegan/leather issue. So, in order to help you out, here are the directions on where to participate.

The religion and politics thread is opt in and if you opt in you must be comfortable dealing with alternative viewpoints. Anyway below is the post that explains how to opt in to the thread. There is a post there on the topic.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=103942

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by Meemo

The Voyage Limited Edition cover is aniline leather. The Walnut Oasis cover looks to be the same material - can't confirm that, of course, folks are just speculating that it looks to be the same type leather going by the pictures. Nubuck is something a bit different - close, but I got my leathers mixed up. At any rate, since I have the Walnut on order, I'm hoping it's the same type leather.

This video review of a Walnut covered Oasis leads us to believe the Walnut is probably "nubuck". Especially note about the 1 minute mark.

[Jason90]

Originally Posted by Raptwithal

Jason90 has just confirmed that reading books does not assure that a person will grow in tolerance, kindness, or in empathy toward innocent victims of needless violence.

You do realise vegan/vegetarianism is a modern western phenomenon that more or less did not exist prior to the hippie outbreak during the 60's?

You may say now that you don't require the benefits of eating meat with all your modern vitamin supplements,which can cause cancer by the way but don't try making others feel bad for your lifestyle choice.

I would consider it unkind and unethical to remove much needed natural proteins to my children,God gave man dominion over the rest of creation in this world not the other way round!

[howyoudoin]

Originally Posted by Jason90

You do realise vegan/vegetarianism is a modern western phenomenon that more or less did not exist prior to the hippie outbreak during the 60's?

You may say now that you don't require the benefits of eating meat with all your modern vitamin supplements,which can cause cancer by the way but don't try making others feel bad for your lifestyle choice.

I would consider it unkind and unethical to remove much needed natural proteins to my children,God gave man dominion over the rest of creation in this world not the other way round!

I thought a moderator had already ruled against having this sort of discussion in this thread, or is it permitted if one makes such mis-informative posts as this one?

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

I thought a moderator had already ruled against having this sort of discussion in this thread, or is it permitted if one makes such mis-informative posts as this one?

I am awaiting a moderator decision on a few posts in this thread.
Yes, eschwartz did say to please watch it on the vegan posts.

Now the discussion is great downstairs or down in the forum it belongs.

[DiapDealer]

Moderator Notice
The off-topic arguments/disussion of the history and/or merits of veganisim will stop immediately. Take it to the P&R thread if you wish to continue it. That's why it exists. No further interruptions of this thread with this sort of nonsense will be tolerated.

[Hoyt Clagwell]

Originally Posted by BenG

I paid close to $300 for my first Sony Reader.

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

Me, too.

I still consider that a price that was more than justified, at that time.

I did also and the price was certainly justified (PRS 500). But if you could have got a different reader with basically the same technology at a price significantly less expensive wouldn't have you have gone for that?

[BenG]

One without a cover and no page turn buttons? Maybe not.

[nurseshelly]

Funny thing about the "My Kindle Oasis has Arrived" ... mine hasn't but Amazon is already delivering any books I buy to it as the default even though it's not been turned on and activated. :P

[Canuck_in_Japan]

Originally Posted by BenG

One without a cover and no page turn buttons? Maybe not.

In 2010 (I think?) I got my Sony prs 650 with official cover for $240. That seemed expensive at the time. I just can't get over paying $310 for an ereader when you can get an iPad for $399. (I realize that these have different uses, of course. It just blows my mind that an ereader costs almost as much as an iPad).

[Josieb1]

My most expensive ereader was the Sony PRS 600, for which I paid £250 without a case. Nowadays I won't spend anywhere near that much on an ereader. I paid £150 for my Voyage.