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The Tolino Shine is an excellent alternative German bookseller Amazon’s Kindle Paperwhite . (Photo: kwe) Thursday 20 June 2013
The answer to the great German booksellers Kindle Paperwhite is the Tolino Shine. He also lit up at night, but is much cheaper than Amazon’s e-book reader. And indeed, who can do without a few extras is well served with Tolino
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latest with the White Paper Kindle e-book readers have finished their shadowy existence and replace already in many homes the bookcase, or at least make a practical addition for leisure and vacation. Thalia too, worldview, Hugendubel, Bertelsmann and the German Telekom have recognized this and have formed an alliance to Amazon to leave the business with electronic books without a fight. The result: the Tolino shine, for the competitive price of 99 euros against 30 euros more expensive Paperwhite Kindle (Wi-Fi model) competes
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links the Kindle Paperwhite, the right slightly higher Tolino Shine . (Photo: kwe) The first impression of Tolino is flatly well. The e-book reader with 175 x 116 x 9.7 cm small and is also pleasant with 183 grams of beautiful light in the hand. The plastic device wrapped in velvety feels comfortable around and is well made. By comparison, the Kindle Paperwhite has the dimensions 169 x 117 x 9.1 mm and weighs 213 grams
Internally, the Tolino two gigabytes of storage space, which is already enough for around 2,000 e-books. If you need more, you can expand it with microSD cards. The slot for it is at the bottom behind a bit fiddly flap where you can also find a USB port.
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Both devices have a 6-inch e-ink display and offer 213 or 212 dpi, the same resolution. The eye recognizes as no significant differences in the typeface of the two e-book readers.
The flap Micro USB covers connector and microSD card slot is a bit fiddly, but it fulfills its purpose . (Photo: kwe) in lighting Tolino can easily keep up with the White Paper. Its screen is evenly lit and on the highest level of the background really shines almost paper white. Practically, the shine that you can turn off the lights with a switch above the right completely. This protects the battery during daylight hours, but which holds out some days even when the display is illuminated.
Interestingly, the test Tolino also has the same small problems such as the White Paper: At the bottom of the screen show small drop shadow, while not reached while reading the Scriptures, but still a bit disturbing. You are so weak that they can not be seen on the comparison image.
For the lighting intersect both e- book reader equally well . (Photo: kwe) The touchscreen reacts Tolino for an e-book reader satisfactory but a bit slower than the Kindle. In read everyday where you can actually touch the screen just flip, but this does not matter.
He does only the bare minimum, but well
For most users, it would hardly carry weight that the Shine offers no integrated Wörtebuch and can not retrieve information from Wikipedia. More important is that you can put a bookmark icon and can attach to a long tipsters marks and notes. Areas can mark this easily by sliding marker.
In the e-books you can Tolino shine just set markers and create notes . (Photo: kwe) multitouch gestures not mastered the Tolino. The font size so you can not zoom in or out by spreading movement of the thumb and index finger. Therefore you have to go to the menu where you can also select from six fonts, and can change line spacing, text alignment and margins. It is also possible to search for words in a book or document.
Telekom saves and synchronizes
As an extra
the Kindle alternative offers an Internet browser and the telecom cloud, which serves as an additional memory and synchronize content between devices. Thanks to the cooperation with Telekom, their Wi-Fi hotspots nationwide for free. Also, there’s a simple way to make contact with his Facebook friends. One can only recommend titles. With the Tolino it is not possible to post text passages.
Tolino much more open than Kindle
The Tolino Shine also has an Internet browser on board. books come via wireless connection or USB cable and the PC to the Tolino. Here, the reader swallows in principle from any source e-books in ePub format commonly used, PDFs – each with Adobe copy protection (DRM) – and TXT files. Among other things, you can borrow as well as tracks from online libraries. This makes the device much more versatile and more open than the Kindle reader, do not accept the books and Adobe ePub DRM. Amazon wants you to only buy in his shop. And of course, allows the online giant is not that his e-books can be read on other readers.
The companies that sell the Tolino, but also are not entirely altruistic: it is the only shop of the bookseller installed, in which you acquired the Reader. The calculus is likely to rise, because the deals are almost identical, and convenient way to buy from the shop installed directly from the Home screen. Only brake: You must first log there
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Want to strike
the competition, you can either use the built-in browser and download books from their stores or make a detour via the computer and get it via a USB cable or microSD card to your Tolino.
For many, the better alternative
little restriction on the free sale of e-books, like the lower functions probably acceptable for most users who just buy books, download and read independently of the ambient light like. For them, the Tolino Shine is currently the best e-book reader.
Source: n-tv.de
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