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Originally Posted by cmoim
Hi ,
I am interested in buying a Tolino Vision 4 HD since it is one of the only flush with bezel E-readers besides the KO2 KV and KA1.
I would like to ask if it is possible to install apps (.apk) in Tolino , since it is based on Android. The reason why i am asking this is because i want to install Koreader. Nowadays it is nearly impossible to find a new jailbreakable kindle and KO1 is too large to me.
Apart from installing apps, what would be the advantages of using a Tolino compared to kindle and kobo's system?
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There are some German language pages about rooting Tolino's ereaders which might help with what you want. Hopefully, you can either read German or are willing to get up close and personal with Google Translate. See
Anleitung: Tolino Vision 4 HD Root-Zugriff for some information.
Please note that while I check out this type of information to satisfy my curiosity, I haven't rooted my Tolino epos so I have no hands on experience.
As for the advantages of using a Tolino? Comparing my epos to my KA1, support for landscape mode and the Tolino cloud are about the only ones that comes to mind. Format support, font support, calibre support, epub3/fixed layout epub3, being able to use book covers as the screen saver and the overall openness all favour the Kobo. The latest firmware for the epos has removed most of the nullpointer exception crashes that I noticed in 11.2.2 but I still get crashed back to the home page on occasion. Neither ereader is happy with the occasional epub that uses a single massive text file instead of splitting into section files.
Overall, I have been spoiled by the openness of the Kobo firmware where jailbreaking or rooting are foreign terms.