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like Apple's iPhone Amazon's Kindle turns 10 this year and to mark that 10th anniversary Amazon is releasing its best Kindle yet the all-new Kindle Oasis not only is it the first fully waterproof Kindle but it features a larger 7 inch e-ink display the very slim design and an aluminum back the new Kindle Oasis may not be as expensive as the iPhone 10 but is it very expensive for an e-reader it starts at two hundred and fifty dollars the thing that jumps out at you is that larger 7-inch 300 PPI display that PPI stands for pixels per inch compared to the original Kindle 6 inch display and provides slightly more than 30% more screen real estate and that's a big difference the other big change is to the battery the original Oasis had a small battery built into the device and a larger battery built into the included case which adhere to the e-reader magnetically but the new Kindle Oasis the larger battery is integrated into the device itself and Amazon has made the case an optional accessory that starts at $40 the new cases also adhere magnetically but they aren't charging cases the new Oasis tapers down to three point four millimeters at its thinnest point and weighs in it 194 grams or 10 grams lighter than the Kindle paperwhite Amazon says that displays cover glass is the strongest to date and the new dual or one gigahertz processor with 512 megabytes of RAM is the zipi estate giving you slightly faster page turns it's worth noting that the integrated legacy now features 12 LEDs instead of the 10 valve on the original wases which helps the lights play across the screen a little more uniformly the other big addition is support for audible playback on the device there's no headphone jack but that is Bluetooth connectivity that allows you to connect the Nueces to a bluetooth headphone or speaker if you have the license to the audible version of a book you can toggle between the audible and the e-book versions however you can't have the books text appear while you're listening to the audible version that's a quick look at the new Kindle Oasis I'm David Carr noise for cnet.com thanks for watching