It’s not a perfect effect, and it does take some fiddling around with the brightness and temperature settings for whatever ambient light is around. The screen is the only real change to the Oasis from 2017 It’s subtle, but it makes a big difference in whatever part of my brain processes a thing as “book” rather than “screen.” Given the choice between the two displays, I reached for the new Oasis every single time. Using the color temperature option, it can replicate that slightly off-white color that actual books have instead of the snow-white quality of Amazon’s older screens. Compared side by side, the old Oasis now looks washed out, with a sickly grey backdrop for the text at lower brightnesses and a corpse-like white at higher ones. If you’re someone who prefers existing night mode systems for computers and phones, you’ll likely be a fan of the warmth feature for reading at night - less blue light does have a positive effect on sleep schedules and reduces eye strain.īut I kept the warmer light on even during the day, for a much simpler reason: it turns out that the slight yellow tint is the missing ingredient to help the Kindle’s already quite good display actually look like real paper.Īs a longtime Kindle user, the regular Kindle display had never really bothered me, until I started using the warmer display on the new Oasis.
The warmer screen makes the new Oasis actually look like paper