Where a Kindle Paperwhite could potentially go for months between charges, the Oasis’s internal battery can only manage about two weeks of use, depending on your reading habits.

Its light weight and superior backlighting come at a cost, however: The Oasis has a significantly shorter battery life than its recent predecessors. The Oasis’s display backlighting is simply better. This isn’t to say that the Paperwhite is a horror to read on-I’ve been satisfied with mine for years. The Oasis employs 10 LEDs to ensure even backlighting across its display, beating out the patchier light the Paperwhite’s four LEDs produce. But with the backlights turned up, it’s a very different story. With the backlight turned off, I didn’t notice a difference between reading on my 2014 Paperwhite and the Oasis. Like these chunkier cousins, the Oasis comes equipped with a 6-inch antiglare 300 ppi display.

Measuring 5.6×4.8×0.3 inches and weighing a mere 4.7 ounces, the Oasis is, as Amazon is quick to proclaim, the thinnest, lightest Kindle that they’ve ever made-close to two ounces lighter than a 3G equipped Kindle Voyage and almost three ounces less than a current generation The first thing that long-time Kindle users will notice about the Oasis is its size.

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