Going from a Kindle paperwhite to an Oasis - anyone done it?

Feek said:
The new ones have a 'warmth adjustment' which also attracts me to the Oasis. I use the Kindle app on my phone and always have it set to the lighter brown background rather than white.

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The new kindles all have the same warm light and all the features of the oasis. The only thing the oasis gives you is the extra buttons now.

Which is why I just bought the new kindle signature edition for £150 in the sales rather than pay £225 for the oasis. Just wasnt worth the extra £75 for 2 buttons

Both have 32Gb and the oasis has 25 backlights vs 17 on the paperwhite but 17 is a massive step up from the old kindles anyway.

If the oasis had been on sale and perhaps £20 more then I might have bitten.

Even the normal paperwhite which was on sale at £105 is a step up from past generations.

It has double the memory at 8gb and 17 LEDS and the warm light but no auto adjusting light sensors. Old generations of paperwhite only have 4 LEDS from memory.
 
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Feek said:
Thanks to all for the replies, no I don't have especially greasy or dirty fingers but I notice even the slightest mark on a screen. After a week or so of owning the Paperwhite, I could see marks at the point I was tapping the screen and bought myself a stylus which I've used ever since.


The only reason I bought a new Kindle was because the navigation pad stopped working, I think it was the centre button, the most important of the lot. I stripped it down, gave it all a good clean but it was still the same. My Kindle Keyboard is also the 3G version so it was dead handy.

Mind you, I really like the light on the paperwhite, it just makes it so much more convenient than having to rely on a decent light source.


How poor? I normally use mine for 30-60 minutes in bed most evenings and it lasts for weeks.


I bought it on 11th April 2020. It's not quite the current model but I think it's the previous one. "10th Generation WiFi waterproof" so not the cheapest base model.
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That makes it the 2018 model so almost 4 years old in generation terms. The new kindle paperwhites are all a massive step up from that generation. Thats the same one I have upgraded my gf from.
 
Got a new paperwhite this Jan and loving it. Decided against the Oasis as it seemed pretty old and expensive compared.
 
malachi said:
Nope, only the Paperwhite got a new version last year. Thats why the latest Paperwhite models have USB C while the latest Oasis doesn't. Which put me off from getting the Oasis.
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Fair enough, Its really a case of the normal paperwhites got upgraded to the nicer screen on the oasis and makes most of the point of upgrading to the oasis limited.

The current oasis really needs a price trim to around £160/£170 to be where it should be in the range.

If you can live with the 8gb memory, there is little reason to look further than the standard paperwhite at £105 when its on offer.

To be fair, i dont see why people need more than 8gb. Most people only read one book at a time and 8gb is more than enough for any holiday or working away.

They stay in your kindle library if you offload them from your device anyway.
 
Greebo said:
To be fair, i dont see why people need more than 8gb
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I got 15 GB free atm on my 32 GB model(total is about 28GB i think)
Personally i like to have a lot of choice.i might want to read only 2 or 3 chapters of a given book for example :)
and i was having to delete books on my 4GB paperwhite,i decided to get the most capacity i could
Why they do not put a SD card slot i don`t know :(
 
Greebo said:
To be fair, i dont see why people need more than 8gb. Most people only read one book at a time and 8gb is more than enough for any holiday or working away.
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Kindles can also play audiobooks from Audible but I dont know anyone who actually uses it.
 
Love my Oasis; I upgraded from a Paperwhite mainly as I missed the physical buttons for switching pages; wouldn't be without it now even if it was an expensive upgrade!
I've tried some of the Android e-reader's but while they're great for papers/magazines I much prefer the Kindle for reading "books"
 
chrismscotland said:
Love my Oasis; I upgraded from a Paperwhite mainly as I missed the physical buttons for switching pages; wouldn't be without it now even if it was an expensive upgrade!
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Bingo! Exactly what I want to do and for exactly the same reason.
 
Greebo said:
The new kindles all have the same warm light and all the features of the oasis. The only thing the oasis gives you is the extra buttons now.

Which is why I just bought the new kindle signature edition for £150 in the sales rather than pay £225 for the oasis. Just wasnt worth the extra £75 for 2 buttons

Both have 32Gb and the oasis has 25 backlights vs 17 on the paperwhite but 17 is a massive step up from the old kindles anyway.

If the oasis had been on sale and perhaps £20 more then I might have bitten.

Even the normal paperwhite which was on sale at £105 is a step up from past generations.

It has double the memory at 8gb and 17 LEDS and the warm light but no auto adjusting light sensors. Old generations of paperwhite only have 4 LEDS from memory.
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I remember the first paperwhite had an annoying design flaw whereby you could see the four LED’s shine up from the bottom of the screen.

I like the new cover function of the paperwhite where it shows the cover of the book you’re currently reading rather than just a random literature themed picture. Some examples of the cover function and the backlight at its coolest and warmest




 
Feek said:
I’ve got a Kindle Paperwhite which I use a lot and love but I don’t love the touchscreen so use a stylus to avoid getting fingerprint/grease marks on the display.

I see the Kindle Oasis has page turn buttons, just like my original Kindle Keyboard.

Has anyone gone from the Kindle Paperwhite to the Kindle Oasis? What do you think of the Oasis compared to the Paperwhite? Is it an upgrade worth making?
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Had both, but i think if the money isnt an issue for you the oasis is way nicer. Much prefer mine to the normal paperwhite love the tint you can add to the screen, and the buttons
 
As an update to this, I recently bought the Oasis when the price was dropped at Amazon and I'm very happy with it. I sold my Kindle Paperwhite to a friend which helped offset the cost a little.

It was a good call, thanks all for the replies.
 
Just on the south face of rough tor with the paper white, battery's definitely deteriorating though and just started the wheel of time (daughter keeps reccomending it) so may be in the market myself for an upgrade
 
Personally i find the battery life worse on the Oasis than the paperwhite
Not an issue for me as i mostly use the Oasis in house
 
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