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Originally Posted by ratinox
Just bear in mind that the Tolino firmwares are very limited in terms of format support compared to their Kobo counterparts: ePub, PDF, TXT. That's it. There are probems with the typeface and font controls in the Deutsche Telekom firmware releases; I don't know if they've been addressed in the Kobo releases.
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I basically only use ePbub on my non-Kindle readers. The font issues seem to have been resolved with release 12.2.0 (although the only problem I had was that some fonts wouldn't install). The Tolino's interface is "sparse," but it has the controls I need — and the line spacing adjustments seem to work on all eBooks, unlike the issues I've had with Kobos on some ePubs.
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Originally Posted by ratinox
Oh, yeah, Kobo bought Tolino from DT. That's why you can't buy Kobo in the German markets and you can't buy Tolino anywhere else. Also why the third (I think) generation and later Tolino hardware is rebadged Kobo hardware.
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Yep. I've found Tolinos on eBay and at Shop Goodwill and (apparently) I can buy new ones at Grooves.Land in Germany and get free, fast shipping. But since I don't have a German address (or one of the other European countries where the Tolinos are supported) I can't register and/or get their free Cloud storage — which would be nice because then I could sync the Tolinos.
And they may have changed something with the 12.2.0 software release. On my Tolinos before the Epos, I was able to skip registration (which I can do on the Epos) and I was still able to download the dictionaries (which the Epos won't allow). On the Epos it goes into the registration loop (again) before I can download the standard dictionaries. Turns out that you just have to start the setup process. Once you start it, then back out, you can download the dictionaries. (Still no Cloud and you can't buy from Thalia (or whichever market the Tolino is hooked to) but everything else works.) I think this how I got around this on my Vision 4, now that I think about it. Which, of course, I can't complete, so it's futile. (I downloaded all the dictionaries for the other Tolinos before updating to 12.2.0, so I don't know if this is an Epos thing, or a 12.2.0 thing.) Fortunately the Tolinos use an open dictionary format (and there are many dictionaries that you can download for it) and (in my case) I already had the standard dictionaries downloaded on my other Tolinos, so it was just a matter of copying them over. Still, it's something to think about.