![]() ![]() Still, the search works well enough if you know what you’re looking after. There doesn’t seem to be a way to list something like Ian Rankin’s Rebus series by book order. The only weakness is the organisation of your library on the home screen, which makes if difficult to find the next in a series of books if you’ve bought a lot. Syncing locations between audiobooks and ebooks is remarkably good if you have both. The quick setting panel makes getting to brightness controls easy, while integrated Goodreads, Audible for audio books and the Kindle store make finding and downloading your next book easy. You can even create your own themes and change the size of font on the fly with a pinch-to-zoom on the screen.Īmazon’s dictionary, Wikipedia and X-Ray look-up system continues to be excellent for figuring out unfamiliar words, concepts or characters. There are plenty of customisation options for formatting, including nine fonts, a sliding scale of font size, differing levels of boldness, page spacing, margins and alignment adjustment and new themes, which roll all the settings together into one-tap options. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The GuardianĪmazon’s Kindle software still nails the mechanics of actually reading a book. Software featuresĪmazon’s X-Ray and look-up tools are best in class, particularly if you opted for the 4G-connected version. ![]() They are at least attractive, with the premium leather case providing the supple and sumptuous finish of a really expensive notebook - something that was a key selling point for the first generation Kindle Oasis from 2016. While Amazon sells cases that do something similar, they cover the entire of the back, clipping in around the edges, which makes them slightly harder to remove for the best reading experience. This meant you could easily read the Oasis in its best, balanced and ergonomic state: naked. It would then close over the screen, turning on or off the screen as you open it like a book, but also being able to be easily removed. The 2017 Oasis had magnets on the back allowing a case to snap into place against the thin part, slotting into the groove of the aluminium body. ![]() You’ll need some sort of case for it, which is where Amazon has made a backwards step. While the Oasis is well made, with no overly sharp edges and a solid-feeling aluminium frame, the flush screen feels vulnerable. The case clips onto the sides of the Oasis covering the entire front and back, leaving the sides exposed for the microUSB socket and power button. In reality, the Oasis lasted long enough for me to get through the equivalent of two 300-page books at a fairly slow reading pace with a mixture of brightness levels and 4G on and off to sync progress.Ĭharging took the best part of three hours with a 5W USB charger, or slightly faster with something more powerful. Amazon rates it for six weeks of 30 minutes of reading a day at brightness level 13 set to airplane mode, which works out at 15 hours of reading. Given smartphones, laptops, tablets and Apple are standardising around USB-C charging, having a microUSB socket means you might have to carry a dedicated Kindle cable in the future. Accidental dunks in the bath or pool should be fine.ĭespite it being 2019, the Oasis still has a microUSB charging socket (the one typically used on older, cheaper smartphones). The new Oasis is water resistant to IPX8 standards, which means it’ll survive up to 60 minutes at depths of 2m in water. The smooth aluminium back is a pleasure to hold. Native format support: Kindle (AZW/AZW3), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC, Audible (AAX) Rated battery life: six weeks reading 30 minutes a day Screen: 7in Paperwhite with colour adjustable frontlight (300ppi)ĭimensions: 159 x 141 x 8.4mm (3.4mm at thinnest point)Ĭonnectivity: wifi, optional 4G, Bluetooth, microUSB A yellow-tinted page appears slightly friendlier than clinical white. Set to between 12 and 19 on the sliding scale, it matched the colour of a traditional paperback page, which is a game-changer for those looking to replicate the feeling of reading paper as much as possible. But some might prefer to have a warmer light all the time. Like a smartphone you can set it to gradually shift to a warmer white as the sun sets removing blue light to aid with sleep. It’s very similar to the white ambience smart bulbs available from Hue and others that shift in tone of white for less clinical lighting when needed. The warm light function moves from brilliant white to a warm yellow over 24 gradations. You can manually adjust the colour temperature of the screen or set it to become warmer as the sun sets. ![]()
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