Saturday, February 8, 2014

Tolino Shine: Shine vs Tolino. Kindle Paperwhite: Which eBook Reader is the most ... - ABC Online

in vogue: the library to take away, in the form of eBook readers. These handy devices allow you to store hundreds of books in digital form. One of the most popular models, the Kindle Paperwhite Amazon is currently on offer – for 99 euros, ie 30 euros cheaper. Is it worth the purchase? Or is a handle for competitors Tolino Shine the better choice?

yet awarded in issue 06/2013 by Stiftung Warentest as good value for money, can saving conscious buyers, the price argument for the Tolino Shine Deutsche Telekom to 3 February ignore completely. Both the Shine as well as the Kindle Paperwhite Amazon offered up to this date to an amount of just 99 euros. After that, the White Paper will cost 129 euros again. So: What to buy an eBook reader? Is it worth the Amazon bargain or is the alternative Telekom is the better choice? Here’s the test report.

First fall Neukäufern after unpacking the device, of course, to the dimensions of Shine and Paperwhite. “Tolino vs. Kindle “- Round 1: At least here, the competitors pay nothing. With 18 centimeters high and 12 centimeters wide of Tolino is slightly larger than the White Paper, with its 16.9 times 11.7 centimeters. Both readers are about an inch deep. For this, the telecom unit is about 20 grams lighter. The Tolino weighs about 185 grams, while the Kindle brings good 208 grams on the scale. Both devices are very good in the hand and so the test results in this category are very balanced.

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the display of the eBook reader comparison is initially balanced. The two low-cost models each have a 6-inch display with a resolution of 1024×758 pixels and lighting. This makes it possible, enjoyable to read, even in complete darkness or sunlight. Here make the Amazon engineers appeared from their experiences with the Kindle predecessor use and give the Paperwhite a very evenly illuminated, high-contrast appearance of the display, which trumps still good reading experience in Tolino test. Also the flip between the pages of a book is the Paperwhite vonstatten little faster.

In comparison, the inexpensive readers offer similar battery life. For two hours of reading time per day and medium lighting both devices hold by something less than one month. A fantastic value at all, the cheap eBook reader far more expensive and more cumbersome tablet PCs over.

However

: The winner Tolino His can not keep up with the multitude of book offers for the White Paper. Amazon offers over two million books, magazines and newspapers for download, in Tolino shop it is in about half. An additional benefit for Amazon Prime members can borrow books from the Amazon library and keep without return period as long as they want for free. But still there is no clear winner here. The White Paper does not support namely the widely used EPUB format, which is used in almost every other digital books business – Tolino does. Anyone who owns a Kindle, which is thus also quite strictly bound to Amazon.

In terms of storage capacity show the eBook reader test results no clear winner. Both devices offer about the same usable space from 1.25 to 1.3 gigabytes. While this is enough for hundreds of eBooks, but who needs more space, looking at Paperwhite literally into the tube. The eBook reader test can only Tolino Shine expand with a microSD card. To this can be stored in the Kindle content in the digital cloud.

So buy that eBook device? The answer to this question remains a matter of taste, since both the Tolino Shine-experiences and the Kindle-test show that both readers have advantages and disadvantages. Also hundreds of opinions does not help in this decision. Dear buy the Tolino Shine? Yes, if you put a high value on memory expansion and independence from Amazon. Or would buying the Kindle Paperwhite is better? Only when the superior display and the wide range in the Amazon store are on the property list near the top. It depends entirely on personal priorities. Fortunately, both providers offer a return policy if you buy through their online stores. So there is no reason not to order one or two devices and subjecting them to a personal test at home.

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