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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
How is the library interface for your tolino? And the reader program?
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From my point of view, the tolino interface is a simpler version than the Kobo. The home screen is divided into two sections. The top two-thirds shows the current book and the two most recent plus a link to the library. The bottom third shows the shop you are linked to with five books and a link to the shop. There is also a status bar across the top (icons for USB connection, time, WiFi, light, battery) and menu and search buttons underneath.
The menu takes you to the setting, browser, accounts and info.
In the library, there are three sections: Titles, Authors an Collections. These are basically the same as Kobo. But, at the bottom of Authors, the bar has the alphabet across it and tapping one takes you to the page with that letter.
The book lists are similar to Kobo: cover on the left, title, author and status stacked next to that, and a menu icon on the extreme right. The status for books being read is nice. It is a bar with an indicator of how far through the book you are with x/y at the end to show the current page and total pages. There is a cover view that shows six books with the title, author and status bur underneath.
The book metadata is minimal: title, author, format size and date added. I really miss the synopsis.
The ePub renderer is RMSDK based and probably as good as the Kobo. But, the font and layout settings are probably closer to a Kindle: 11 sizes, three lines spacing options, three margin sizes, seven fonts, but you can add your own. There is a landscape mode for reading. The ToC shows the page number for the start of the chapter. Tapping the page number at the bottom brings up a navigation bar similar to Kobo but tapping the page number on this gives a go-to-page prompt.
For calibre users, the collections as mentioned elsewhere is pretty much it. The book status is stored somewhere I can't see when connected.
Overall, there are a lot of things to like. And the tolino epos is a very good ereader. But, I prefer the Kobo firmware. I do use the functions the Kobo has and missed these when I was exclusively reading on the epos at Christmas (after giving my wife my Aura ONE). I went back to the Aura H2O when I went back to work. I'm just waiting to see exactly what the Clara HD is before deciding it I am buying myself another Aura ONE.