The review unit has 4GB of storage, and when IĬhecked the website a couple of weeks ago, that was it. Read the Oasis reviewĪnd its storage capacity is … um? Apparently, Amazon is You tap on the right side of the screen to advance a page, the left to go backĪ page and at the top to bring up a toolbar of options. The only button on the standard Kindle is the on/standbyīutton on the bottom edge, next to the micro-B USB charge and communications And at 160mm it’s very slightly taller than the Oasis, but narrower at 113mm vs 141mm. At 8.7mm it’s slightly thicker than the thickest part of the Oasis.

The screen resolution is 167ppi rather than 300ppi. It is backlit by four rather than 25 LEDs, but the lighting nonetheless seemed smooth and even across the screen. The screen is 6 inches rather than the Oasis’ 7 inches. There is no cellular version of this model. Those files that need conversion are automatically converted along the way. But you also get a special Kindle email address so that you can send any of those other documents to it (via Amazon). If you buy something from Amazon, it automatically loads onto the Kindle when it’s connected to Wi-Fi (2.4GHz only). You can also convert HTML, Word documents and several graphic formats to load.

But you can also load it with, and read, text files, PDF, MOBI (unless they’re locked) and PRC files. You can get books by buying them from Amazon (some are free), which are in a special Kindle file format. In short, though, the Kindle is a great way to read books … so long as they don’t require colour, since all Kindles have grey-scale screens, not colour.

Kindle 10th generation