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Well, it's the "You may buy eBooks from different tolino partners" bit that puts me off. Either way, it seems I would be paying for functionality I cannot use in my country, so that's not going to be an option for me. Yes, I know I had to register my Kobo device with Kobo; and I do on occasion purchase content from Kobo.
The point is that here it's a matter of personal preference whether I choose to buy from Kobo or not (I usually don't unless there is a significant price advantage or because the title is not available elsewhere because of their DRM policy); whereas the with the tolino it looks like I cannot purchase content from them even if I wanted to because of geographic restrictions. And frankly I really can't be bothered to 'travel' to obtain content.
I am not complaining about this fact: this is one reason why the tolino is not on my shortlist of replacement devices. 99% of my 'purchases' are made via the iPad (from Amazon) or via the Mac (for Kobo and other sources). I have never used my Kobo Touch to purchase content, and would never use any dedicated ereader to do so as everything is consolidated with Calibre.
So, the tolino is not for me. Rightly or wrongly, my perception is that the tolino is a walled garden in the geographic sense if not in other senses, and it looks like it will require fiddling to jump over the wall (and may not work correctly if I do so), whereas other devices that fit my requirements better in other terms don't. I also suspect that devices purchased from content suppliers like Kobo, Kindle or tolino are going to become more and more restricted in what you can do with your purchased content so that is why I am looking for a replacement that is not supplied by a content vendor.
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