Amazon Kindle Oasis (1st gen, 2016, 6-inch)

Beautiful, fantastically well built and a pleasure to use. But the high-price means it's only for the most diehard of Kindle fans.

Gorgeous 7-inch touchscreen ; Display with adjustable warmth ; Waterproof design ; Page-turn buttons ; Support for audiobooks

Still no USB-C port ; Very minor update on previous Kindle Oasis

Innovative new design ; Great new back-lit screen ; Vast selection of ebooks

Shorter battery life ; Most expensive Kindle ever ; Only leather case options

The Amazon Kindle Oasis is the best experience money can buy when it comes to reading electronic tomes. The main problem lies in how much money you have to part with to let that happen, and its high price is likely to scare some off.

Sublime reading experience ; Larger display ; More even illumination ; Quality covers

It can be a little slippery ; Price ; Kindle Store layout getting a little old

While we struggled to recommend the old version in light of the sturdy performance of the Paperwhite, we'd happily vouch for the new Kindle Oasis. It's bigger, it's better, it's waterproof. It's the best Kindle yet.

Slim, smart design ; Rammed with features ; Great display ; Leather cover with extra battery

Expensive ; Adaptive lighting culled

The Kindle Oasis is our favourite Kindle model so far, despite the lack of adaptive brightness. That slim and light build, along with the battery-packing cover, make this the most desirable eReader we’ve ever clutched..

Fabulous lightweight design ; Pristine screen ; Easy-to-use software

Really, really expensive ; No adaptive lighting

If you’ve got the Cash Money, this e-reader is the best you can buy. We can’t knock its hustle.

There’s no arguing that the Kindle Oasis is a fabulous device for reading on. It’s thinner, lighter, faster and more thoughtfully designed than any Kindle before it. The screen light has been improved and it has great battery life. It’s a fantastic...