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I have a Kindle Oasis. I _mostly_ like it. The yellow light feature that they added is amazing, and I like the page turn buttons. My biggest complaints are: (1
by RheingoldRiver 5y ago
I have a Kindle Oasis. I _mostly_ like it. The yellow light feature that they added is amazing, and I like the page turn buttons.
My biggest complaints are: (1) the battery life is terrible, compared to my previous Kindle - recently I've been reading a lot but I have to charge it every couple days rather than like once a week, and it's absolutely mandatory to keep it in airplane mode. (2) the metal casing is an extremely questionable product design choice, it gets VERY cold in the winter, though I suppose if I bought a case to go with it this would be less of a problem (I don't want a case, the point is to have a lightweight device). Would much prefer a plastic chassis. (3) This one is a bit more esoteric, but: while you can switch the buttons between page forward & back, you cannot map them BOTH to forward, so if you like to frequently reposition how you hold the device, too bad, it's very inconvenient to remap the buttons as you move your hands. (Since you rarely press page back, I'd rather use the touch screen as designed for page back, and have both buttons be page forward.)
- goosedragons 5y agoI feel like you might like the Kobo Libra 2. Bigger battery, similar size and shape with same screen resolution and size, still has yellow light, plastic case, there's a patch to make both buttons go forward. Weighs 30 grams more though.