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Kindle Oasis vs Kindle Voyage
April 04, 2025 | Author: Dhaval Parekh
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The thinnest and lightest Kindle ever. All-new ergonomic design with dedicated buttons to effortlessly turn the page. Longest Kindle battery life. Choose from a black, merlot, or walnut removable cover. High-resolution 300 ppi display with crisp, laser quality text. Reads like real paper without glare, even in direct sunlight. Enhanced built-in adjustable light evenly illuminates the screen for perfect reading anywhere, anytime
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Next-Gen Paperwhite Display, Highest-Resolution, Highest Contrast, New Adaptive Front Light, Reimagined Page Turns, Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi + Free 3G . High-resolution 300 ppi display- reads even more like the printed page. Reimagined page turns—PagePress enables you to turn the page without lifting a finger. Discontinued
If you were to take two very refined, very bookish and suspiciously well-lit Kindles and place them side by side, you might notice that both seem equally determined to provide an absurdly crisp 300 PPI reading experience. They both have front lights that adjust as if they possess some mild form of artificial intelligence, they both politely invite you into the vast and labyrinthine Kindle ecosystem and they both allow you to listen to audiobooks should you ever wish to pretend that books now read themselves. They are also, unsurprisingly, both products of Amazon, which, if you hadn't noticed, is a company with a worrying habit of making sure you never have to buy books anywhere else ever again.
Kindle Oasis, however, takes things a little further—possibly into the bathtub, the swimming pool or any other location where books traditionally go to die. With its larger 7-inch screen, an elegant yet slightly lopsided design (asymmetry is apparently fashionable now) and the ability to shift its light from icy white to the warm glow of an ancient wizard’s candle, it is the e-reader equivalent of a high-end spaceship. It is aimed squarely at those who believe that reading should be a luxurious experience, preferably while reclining with a cup of tea that they are absolutely confident will not spill on their waterproof device.
Meanwhile, Kindle Voyage, in an act of quiet defiance, maintains a more compact and symmetrical form, slipping neatly into pockets and bags with the kind of efficiency that suggests it was designed by someone who dislikes clutter. Instead of buttons, it has PagePress sensors, which allow you to turn pages with the power of an almost imperceptible press—perfect for people who wish to look like they are reading by sheer force of will. It is, however, neither waterproof nor particularly concerned with things like warm light, preferring instead to offer a sharp and distraction-free reading experience to those who believe that e-readers should be sleek, simple and incapable of swimming.
Kindle Oasis, however, takes things a little further—possibly into the bathtub, the swimming pool or any other location where books traditionally go to die. With its larger 7-inch screen, an elegant yet slightly lopsided design (asymmetry is apparently fashionable now) and the ability to shift its light from icy white to the warm glow of an ancient wizard’s candle, it is the e-reader equivalent of a high-end spaceship. It is aimed squarely at those who believe that reading should be a luxurious experience, preferably while reclining with a cup of tea that they are absolutely confident will not spill on their waterproof device.
Meanwhile, Kindle Voyage, in an act of quiet defiance, maintains a more compact and symmetrical form, slipping neatly into pockets and bags with the kind of efficiency that suggests it was designed by someone who dislikes clutter. Instead of buttons, it has PagePress sensors, which allow you to turn pages with the power of an almost imperceptible press—perfect for people who wish to look like they are reading by sheer force of will. It is, however, neither waterproof nor particularly concerned with things like warm light, preferring instead to offer a sharp and distraction-free reading experience to those who believe that e-readers should be sleek, simple and incapable of swimming.
