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Originally Posted by mathil
Tolino offers different functionalities than Kobo. They're partnered with different stores, which change depending on the country (it's IBS in Italy, Thalia and possibly other shops in Germany according to their website - not sure if they're sold anywhere else), and they also offer a 5GB cloud space to store and sync personal documents across devices. Nickel would probably need a overhaul to be able to support this, not to mention that Tolino existed and had customers before being bought by Kobo, which means that there are people who are used to and might prefer their software to Nickel. My bet is that they decided that if it works, there's no point in changing it.
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Yep. And since Tolino works with several different stores in Europe (and libraries that use the LCP(?) DRM) they are more versatile -- even when used in the United States. With a Tolino I can download any ePub book in Overdrive (including those that don't match up for the Kobo store), I can buy and download DRM ePubs from Kobo, Feedbooks, and eBooks.com and probably others. eBooks.com recognizes that the Tolino is Android based, so you have to bypass the Android software install, then choose "other Readers" and scroll down to ePub download (skipping the Adobe DRM setup, since you already have it installed on the Reader).
This is a huge plus for someone, like me, who doesn't have Adobe ADE (since I use Linux).