![]() ![]() It’s night and day in terms of premium feel, compared to the standard plastic backing you’ll find on most readers. The Oasis has an aluminum back - the kind you’ll find on premium smartphones, every other year, when the company decided not to go with glass. You’ll likely spend hours a week touching the thing - many, many hours, if you’re the sort of reader who’s inclined to spend ~$300 on a device. They are, after all, the part of the reader your hand is in contact with more than any other. The back was one of the things that kept me coming back to Nook readers - Barnes and Noble actually put some thought into them. Let’s actually start things off by talking about the back, because e-reader backs are important and nobody really talks about them. Rear bumperīut enough of that e-ink stuff. It’s a bold acknowledgement on the 10th anniversary of the original Kindle that the category is still going reasonably strong. The new Oasis walks that eternal e-reader tightrope between forced simplicity and new features - and mostly succeeds. It handily grabs the title of the best Kindle ever, and is a pretty solid contender for best devoted e-reader ever. The benefits are clear, of course, from a much more solid build with a higher-res, larger screen to Audible functionality and, for the first time on a Kindle, waterproofing. The new version of the reader is priced between $270 and $350, meaning you can get three entry-level Kindles for the price of the cheapest version of the Oasis. The premium category remains a niche, of course. When the Kindle Oasis debuted last year, it was clear that Amazon had the category on lock-down. E-readers would mostly outlive reading tablets, while the hitherto unheard of premium category began to emerge. There were just too many benefits that LCDs couldn’t replicate: weeks long battery life, outdoor reading and mitigation of eye fatigue. For a moment, it seemed inevitable that e-ink devices would soon become obsolete.īut the products never went away. KINDLE E READER FULLFor Amazon, Kobo and Barnes and Noble, tablets were the clear high end of the reading market, with color touchscreen and full app stores. A few years ago, the premium e-reader was an oxymoron. ![]()
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