When you’re looking to replace a form factor as iconic as the printed and bound book, design is everything. For almost two decades now, companies have been refining their approach to e-readers, improving not just the electronic paper that gives them their incredible battery life and comfortable-to-read screens, but also how the rest of this hardware comes together. We’ve moved from physical QWERTY keyboards and page-turn buttons to touchscreens and capacitive input, but is every move like this a step in the right direction?
Amazon just introduced a whole slate of new Kindle models, from its inaugural color-screened Kindle Colorsoft, to the stylus-equipped Kindle Scribe 2. And while that’s some very interesting hardware of its own, hearing about all these new Kindles really just got us feeling nostalgic for an old favorite: the Kindle Oasis.