The second generation of the German E-Readers Tolino Shine closes on the Kindle Paperwhite Amazon. Although the has new features, but also disadvantages.
Kindle Paperwhite and Tolino Shine | © ZEIT ONLINE
For years, the German book trade tries to oppose Amazon’s Kindle e-reader something of their own. The products of Trekstor and Oyo but were never competitive. Only the Tolino Shine with backlight – an e-reader of the so-called Tolino Alliance from the telecom and book retailing chains Thalia, Hugendubel, worldview and the Bertelsmann Book Club – was a serious alternative to the Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon’s top model
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While Amazon already the seventh generation will bring to market in the second quarter of 2014, there are now two version of Tolino. As the model suggests, compared with the current Kindle Paperwhite?
At least externally the two devices do not take anything. The Tolino is a few millimeters thicker than the Kindle, but as wide and high. But he weighs 183 grams less, the Kindle comes to 206 grams. The screens are the same size. The biggest difference is the physical home button the Tolinos, will take the user to the start page with the. The Kindle has the button just as a touch panel.
The slide switch to turn on and off the Tolino is a bit too stiff. Also, it lasts exceptionally until the Home screen appears after the e-reader was completely turned off. The Kindle, however, is usable after one or two seconds.
Therefore, the Tolino – as in the first version – a slot for microSD cards. Hence the memory capacity can be extended to 32 gigabytes. How useful this is, is debatable: The internal memory of Tolino and Kindle, with their two gigabytes already big enough for 1,000 to 2,000 e-books.
the third switch on the housing of Tolino Shine can backlight off. This protects the battery and also the eyes, because in bright environments the lighting is not necessary. The backlight on the Kindle Paperwhite can not be switched with a push of a button, here is the brightness control must be pushed all the way down, which is a little more complicated. For this, the lighting is more regular than the Tolino, which showed distinct shadows in the test, especially on the right side.
Patrick Beuth
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Patrick Beuth is an editor in the department of Digital at ZEIT ONLINE. His profile page click here.
the text representation of the Kindle but with and without illumination better. This is mainly due to the clean typeface . The Tolino Shine of the second generation, however, has taken one of the biggest weaknesses of its predecessor: the letters often look as if they lack the printer’s ink. While reading that bothers not really, but it does not look as high quality. It solidifies the impression that German E-Reader can not keep up with the display with the international competition. The rivals of the Amazon Kobo Aura HD screen is based on test reports even better than the Kindle Paperwhite why Amazon wants the upcoming model significantly improve the resolution again.
After all, the Tolino got two big problems under control: the once slow turning now works much faster, and ghosting no longer occurs. That is, the artifacts of other pages that shone through the first model, are no longer visible in the new version. When Paperwhite other hand there are quite ghosting effects, unless you open the settings, tap on “reading options” and enable “Refresh page”. Then the display is updated at every turning, but what increases the power consumption.
touch operation of both devices is simple and clear. Both offer the ability to sort your library by title, author or date, each in list view or with pictures of the book cover. Both dictionaries have integrated and offer the opportunity to take notes. The first Tolino Shine had given this opportunity only with a software update, it now belongs to the standard.
AlthoughBoth have a built-in web browser , but fun it is not to call a news page so . If you want into the net on a regular basis, should rather buy a tablet.
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