positive:
---------
- You can borrow books from the Leo-South Association (registration required).
- The reader has a microSD card, which can be additionally draufladen ebooks.
- The hintergrundbeleutchtung is great, so you can read in the dark. you can adjust the brightness individually.
- Reading comfort is good. you can also select different font sizes to make reading possible liquid.
- It can be stored on it a lot of books.
- The device supports various formats (epub, pdf, txt, rtf, ...).
- Long battery life (especially if you turn off the Wi-Fi).
negative:
--------
- After we had bought some books about the world, they are suddenly gone on vacation. apparently they are - as and for whatever reason - migrated to the cloud and we had (because there is no Wi-Fi available) no way to retrieve or downloading again.
we do not know how that happened, but this is definitely a no-go criterion, because that for this purpose (books comfortable to read on vacation), we have to buy Tolino yes!
- The maintenance of books has much room for improvement: you can sort by name or date books for (import and sale) that's about it. you can not create folders and then move them there (eg Crime, children's books, novels, non-fiction, etc.). all books in a pile (is called library). one can not mark as read books, they appear together with unread books in the same pile. if you imported books from the microSD card, while only one example, reads, then appear the remaining books again next time in the list, because when you turn the system checks whether new books are ready for import. you (because perused) deleted a book from the library, so it appears the next import again - annoying.
- Application: you need different accounts: worldview, leo-sued, Adobe ID. they must be best applied to the PC (registration confirmation comes via mail). that is, without a PC, you can not use the device. Registration is indeed unique, but far from easy / easy and intuitive. after the registration (registration) was successfully carried out, goes the rest (buy / borrow) quite simple.
- Internet browser: you can here no bookmarks set (eg leo-sued.de), you can not change the home page. o, which is very slow browser (ok, the device is not meant for browsing).
- The borrowed books will automatically expire after 3 weeks, but not deleted! you can (if you have for example already borrowed the book after one week), the duration of the Loan not shorten - but Tolino nothing directly to do with the.
- In the lie, the device can keep bad.
- There is no way to retroactively (eg German English) subsequently install a dictionary. I found handy when other readers (Kinlde?), if you read English books: one knows not a word that you type on it and you can already read the German meaning (translation).
- Passwords are repeatedly "forgotten" and must be reentered.
Conclusion:
-------
Although I have no comparison to other ebook readers (eg Kindle), the latest version of Tolino shine still leaves some improvements. Basically, you can use the machine for what it is intended: to read ebooks. who copes with the quirks of books administration, for the device is recommended.
Update:
-------
after upgrading to firmware version 1.2.4 are some added features, which I think is very good:
- Categories are now available, you can sort his books in different categories.
- Reference works are available now, man can so for German, English and Italian (I have not tried) dictionaries and reference books to download and install. the selection of a word that you want to look up, is still cumbersome and does not always work right away.
other errors and problems: I have either not checked whether they still occur, or I've noticed to nothing and I can not report to (eg if passwords are used in the new firmware still forget, or not, I do not know) , also the browser itself, I can not say anything because I have it no longer tried since.
total 1 * more for improvements.
Update 2:
---------
after I have the version 1.3.0 draufgespielt, the following critical points are still not resolved:
- Purchased ebooks disappear after a certain time independently of the cloud and then have to be downloaded again via WLAN again. which is to be a criterion NOGO
- No way to read books to be marked as such
- After a restart (power cycle, not sleep mode) are displayed, and books from the SD card to automatically sync all texts (also previously deleted). this can not stop you. would be better to start the process manually synch - if I want to.
In addition:
- Mark for Look (eg German English) unfortunately does not work on page boundaries
- Which is seeking a cramp: it is sought only in the titles, but not in content. This limits the function significantly. In addition, by looking for the Wi-Fi access is automatically activated - Whatever! either the search passed on to the world, to offer me at the earliest opportunity appropriate books for sale or it is wanted in the shop (for that I get but no results). I do not automatically activate the WLAN in finding definitely not so uneasy, the manufacturer does not know what I'm on my device search.
- Dealing with PDF documents: insufficient! Although the font can be enlarged, but you are allowed to scroll in each row. scroll that does not really: you type in the right window viewing rand, but nothing happens. the next time he flips then 1 page. but sometimes not, because nothing can be more moving. summarized reacts not control when PDFs tough up, then the whole is not fun more! Who wants to read a lot of PDFs so that, should another device (other manufacturers) change!
- Cross-check (in landscape mode) is not possible!
after being a second update and the important things were not resolved, I pull back from 1 *.
Update 3 (04/07/2014):
---------------------
now there is an update to version 1.4.5, which I draufgespielt.
be the case to me here is that now an extra display (sun-symbol) appears when the backlight is turned on.
when connecting to a PC (via USB) must now explicitly enable sharing on Tolino, but this is done automatically in the background.
before the update has me the device each time and even in between so annoyed, indicate that a firmware update is available if I want to install it. this stupid memory can not stop and annoying!
something negative: the charge of the unit is an impertinence! if the Tolino emanates because the battery is empty and you get infected to recharge it, then he does not charge the same or it displays nothing. I have repeatedly experienced that he was infected on the charger overnight, and has still not loaded.
The trick is that the Tolino must be turned on to load. in the off (and empty) concluded he invites namely not (that one must know)!
I need him so to load few times to the charger infected (He turns then a) until it finally starts to load.
in the new firmware, the charge indicator is slightly better resolved, the non-charging problem persists, however.
we have already 2x happens: suddenly has the Tolino "lost" all books in the library. there was only a message saying that no items are available in the library! WTF! :-(
one off and then on again, he then all new books "loaded" - This process takes several minutes, depending on how many books are on it.
no idea why that is and why that is so. then were the borrowed books (leo-sued.de) no longer on it, we had to re-download of the library (not borrow, but only download).
It happened one somewhere where no Wi-Fi is available (eg vacation), then you can no longer read the books - and after the holidays they are usually already expired again and borrowed from others.
by and large, the device is not particularly (robust) suitable holiday - but that would be a more important purpose, do not want to drag many kg of books on holiday with you.
