It is, however, larger than both of its predecessors, which is great for a couple reasons: first, it’s excellent for readers with poor vision. It’s not visibly better than the previous-gen Oasis or the two-generations-ago Voyage, and sports the same 300 pixel-per-inch density. Who misses paper? While older generations of e-ink screens could look pixelated, letters and words on the new Oasis are as clear as any wood-pulp sheaf. If dials it down when you roll back over, though. If you, for example, roll over in bed to grab a glass of water and subject the Oasis to a brighter cone of lamplight, the 7-inch Oasis will lighten its screen almost instantaneously. (Menus, keypresses, etc, seem to fire with the same speed.) Its light sensor, which adjusts the screen’s brightness based on the ambient illumination, though, is so fast it’s almost annoying. The new chip lets the 7-inch Oasis run faster side-by-side with the 2016 model, the new kid flips pages quicker. Like its predecessor, it uses a 1Ghz processor, although the 7-inch Oasis’s is an updated chip: an NXP i.MX7D vs a the original’s FSL 6 SL Cortex-A9. On the processor side, e-readers are not powerful machines and the new Oasis doesn’t do much to change that. This will drain your battery faster, but at least you’re not killing your phone just because you can’t wait to find out if John Adams gets elected president. So throw on your wireless headphones, toss your Kindle in your bag, and pretend you’re actually working at your desk. Software-wise, Amazon started making that super easy by syncing between Kindle and Audible earlier this year pick up an audiobook, and Amazon will throw in the ebook version, automatically jumping you to the spot where you stopped listening. The new Oasis now sports Bluetooth, which is awesome for those of us who switch between audiobooks and ebooks. The Premium Leather Standing Cover comes in three colors and costs $59.99. Game over, everyone pack up their e-reader businesses and go home, right? Maybe? Probably not? For all its great features, the newest Kindle Oasis is not a perfect machine. So, OK, Amazon’s got a waterproof reader tied to the most expansive ebook library in the world.
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