Kindle Oasis Review: Thinner, lighter, sharper
The 8th avatar of the Kindle reader
gets closer than ever to a real book.
It
is nine years since Amazon launched its dedicated e-book reader, the Kindle and
though there have been about seven variants, these come down to three models
from the original 2007 Kindle book to the much sharper Paper White in 2012 to
the Voyager two years later, which came with navigation by touch within the
book and an adaptive light sensor.
On
April 27, the new Kindle Oasis will be available in India at Amazon.in and for
the first time, it appears to have shrunk in size. In fact, all Kindles have
come with a 6-inch diagonal reading area, but the Oasis has chopped away the
empty spaces and perhaps for the first time ever, users will feel they are
holding a real book. And for a more “bookie” feel, you now have a soft leather
jacket.
What
has changed dramatically for the better with every new model including the
present, is the sheer readability. And by making it 20 per cent lighter than
Voyager, Oasis is a lot more comfortable to use for a lot many more, older
users. I still have my classic 2007 Kindle and just placing it besides Oasis is
proof enough that the e-book reader has evolved beyond recognition. At the
asking price of Rs 23,999 for the WiFi-only model and Rs 27,999 for WiFi + free
lifetime 3G, Oasis is the costliest Kindle of them all. If you want to complete
the illusion that you are holding a real book, then it’s reasonable!
Regards
Pralhad Jadhav
Senior Manager @ Library
Khaitan & Co
Best Paper Award | Received the Best
Paper Award at TIFR-BOSLA National Conference on Future Librarianship:
Innovation for Excellence (NCFL 2016) on April 23, 2016. The title
of the paper is “Removing Barriers to
Literacy: Marrakesh VIP Treaty”
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