Kinda funky looking, if this is accurate. Good for southpaws?
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definitely maybe the new kindle
Kindle Oasis, eh? Iāll take two!!
The case has extra battery and docks in the rear. For 20 months of battery life, wow.
Thank God they did away with that hideous, hideous origami cover.
- 131 grams (0.29lbs), 20% lighter than past models
- 3.4 millimeters at its thinnest point and 8.5 millimeters at its thickest
- same 300ppi screen
- 60 percent increase in number of LEDs so more uniform backlighting
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Gah! Looks like Iāma have to wait at least another generation for a decent, mass produced, colour e-ink display.
One day I will carry all my comics around with me!
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Have now!
Ooh! Oooh!
Only current full colour use seems to be this watch
And apple appear to have just bought the lab:
Hopefully not just to make watches with!
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Hereās hoping, I was convinced amazon were going to throw their weight behind a colour e-ink display this generation for some reason but if apple wants to, I might finally be convinced to buy one of their products.
And I could care less about the refresh time, I just want to be able to read a comic on a display that feels a bit like a comic. Reading them on a tablet would be possible, I guess, but the whole LCD thing ruins it for me.
I see the mirasol uses reflected light but seems to still be behind a shiny coverā¦ although I guess even the kindle has had to find ways of dappling the surface to reduce the glareā¦ lol
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Also, when was the last time you saw a comic not printed on glossy stock?
Iām kinda pumped for this now.
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Hmm, it will need to be large format for comics.
I find the (full size, 12+ inch) iPad Pro is the best comics viewing device, since you can view in landscape and see portrait single pages at full res, and when the comics switch to double-page panels (which with some comics is annoyingly a lot of the time), it fits perfectly in ādouble-portraitā landscape with no effort on my part.
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Announced, and $290! (and upwards)
Yeah spendy considering forced case inclusion and zero CPU or screen (other than brightness) improvements 
I read all of my comics on an iPad Air.
Works well except when the comics go double page landscape with any frequency, I always resented having to rotate the device constantly. Damn you comics!
Iām looking at you, All New X-Men!
Yeah, it pisses me off too.
Time to get the 12 inch iPad Pro! 
My Kindle Oasis pre order will not arrive until early June, bah. I have very mixed feelings about forced inclusion of the battery / case, but it is innovative in the Surface Book way (I do not own one) where both halves contribute to the whole.
You went from āspendyā to preorder pretty quicklyā¦
I am a sucker for the state of the art eInk, and Reading Is Fundamental. They are amazing non-distraction devices because Tinder / Snapchat / Facebooks / Twitter doesnāt run on them.
I wonder when/if color will arrive.
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Neverā¦
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I waited for the Kindle 3G before I bought one - in 2010? And very happy I was with it too, but after I replaced it with the G1 Fire Iāve just stuck with the app on tablets for reading.
I guess I can see the appeal of one of the ones with a nightlight - without that Iām happier to read on a tablet with white text on black background instead of needing a reading light. At least this one makes the PaperWhite look like a better deal (whatās that marketing strategy where you introduce something at a very high pricepoint to make what is now a middle-range item seem like a better deal?)
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Oh yeah the nightlight is huge, huge feature. I can definitely recommend the paperwhite, it is a very solid device. Early gen paperwhites had uneven backlighting but they fixed that by gen 2.
Voyage is good (if you can still get it?) mostly because the higher resolution screen is retina-licious, and itās a bit lighter and more premium-metal-y.
I donāt want to read on an LCD at night. The eink displays are much easier on my eyes in general.
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