My Kindle Oasis goes with me everywhere and is a constant companion. But there’s no denying the fact that this nearly 10-year-old piece of technology feels utterly abandoned by Amazon and modern software standards. It might still have one of the sharpest e-ink displays around, but Amazon has moved on to newer hardware, and there have hardly been any feature updates to my old Kindle since.
Over the years, Amazon has turned older Kindle hardware into a slow, restricted gateway designed primarily to sell books rather than serve readers. The Kindle Oasis chokes on modern web formats, lacks true customization, and constantly pushes homepage recommendations that I have zero interest in exploring. And that’s to say nothing of even older Kindles that just lost access to the Kindle Store and other features.
