Tolino Shine: E-Books: Tolino and Kindle be upgraded - ABC Online

The market for electronic books is competitive: A comprehensive update makes the Tolino shine even more user friendly. Amazon woos readers, however with the Kindle 2 White Paper Which of the two competitors will prevail?

In the spring of Tolino Shine proved that it is nearly equally valent, user-friendly and eye-like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite . With a competitive price of 99 euro the e-book reader the Tolino Group (an alliance of Hugendubel, Bertelsmann, Weltbild, Thalia and Deutsche Telekom) also around 30 euros cheaper. Just in time for autumn launch of Tolino now get a 135 MB big update.

Now also Shine customers benefit from a note-book and dictionary functions, which can differ readers between “reference” (as in the lexicon) and “Translate”. Even the overdue sorting into individual collections (shelves) is now included. It was also filed on the page speed and screen technology, the pages are faded something gentler than last.

The Tolino Shine is easier and cheaper than the competing product. Now in order Thalia.de

As for content, the Tolino otherwise on proven strengths: E-Books can be purchased through various stores. While the Kindle customer enters into a virtual fortress Amazon and thus into the hands of the market leader for electronic books that Tolino Alliance relies on an open system. Another big plus: The reader comes with a four-gigabyte memory which can be expanded using SD card up to 32 gigabytes

div In the competitive electronic book market with the Kindle, Amazon has also Paperwhite. 2 tightened again in October. Its greatest strength is the new eInk display Carta. Compared to conventional screens here the so-called ghosting effect (shadows that remain when you switch from the previous page) was virtually eliminated. Also the LED lighting has been improved, now the screen is illuminated more uniformly.