Tolino Shine: German e-book reader takes on Amazon Kindle - Yahoo News Germany

With the Tolino Shine Telekom and the German book store Amazon attack. (Image: Thalia) With the Kindle e-book readers, Amazon is the market leader, since there are electronic books. German companies had with their products so far in the cold. With the new model of Tolino Shine is now also a Top Reader from Germany. Yahoo compares the Tolino with Amazon’s top model, the lighted Kindle Paperwhite, and introduces other devices that would also make good under the Christmas tree.

What have not reached Trekstor and Oyo, now seems tolina the alliance to succeed. Together, the Telekom and bookstore chains worldview, Thalia and Hugendubel and the Bertelsmann Book Club now brought out the second generation of e-book reader Tolino Shine and thus launched an attack on Amazon’s flagship Kindle Paperwhite. It exists now in its seventh generation. A comparison.

Tolino weighs less, Kindle for the front with text representation
Externally, the two e-readers are quite similar. Although the Tolino is slightly thicker than the Kindle, it weighs with its 183 grams less than the Kindle with 206 grams. Both devices have a 6-inch screen. In contrast to the Kindle Tolino has a physical home button, head for the bookworms the home page. The Kindle solves this by touch button

In the main criterion scores of the Kindle. Both with and without background illumination it provides a better and cleaner text representation. The letters of the Tolino look as sharp, but somewhat dull. For this, users can finally turn the page quickly in the second model generation of Tolino Shine. Also the ghosting, so the representation of fragments of another image, was able to abolish the Tolino Alliance. Both Kindle and Tolino offer the possibility to arrange the library by author, title and date. The user can make notes and look up in the built-in dictionary.

The internet browser is indeed a nice gag, both devices but little for everyday use. The Kindle turns with one to two seconds, much faster than the Tolino. It also plays more file formats than the Tolino. Therefore strike not Amazon’s device in ePub formats, the Tolino. When supply of English books scores Amazon’s e-reader. Anyone who reads only German e-books can confidently access to both devices

real alternative. Tolino Shine costs 99 €
offer enough space for both books. The Kindle comes with two gigabytes of internal memory, therefore (up to 1,100 books), the Tolino even with four. The expansion to 32 GB via microSD card should be unnecessary as well. Both e-reader have a backlight for low light conditions. In both devices, you can omit this for battery savings, and this is faster and easier when Tolino.

With 99 euros is the Tolino Shine a real alternative to the more expensive 30 euros Paperwhite. Only the world will have been sold by both Tolino models a six-figure sum. With the Tolino users can use the WiFi hotspots Telekom free. The Kindle is available for 189 euros in a 3G version.

A high quality alternative to the two devices is the Kobo Glo (from 120 euros). He comes with good display illumination and many readable books formats. However, it was certified from time to imprecise control of the display and a long loading time of the e-books. A very good model is also the PRS-T3 Sony (from 99 euros). He scores with excellent workmanship, sharp display and fast response time, but has no backlight.

Who all called e-book readers are too expensive, proposes to the simple Kindle Amazon. Although the does not have any backlight, but costs only 50 Euros, with about two gigabytes of memory offers enough space for around 1,400 books and can also serve afloat.