Thread: Which to get?
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Old 11-05-2019, 09:03 PM   #11
rcentros
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post


Since you have a Shine HD 2 and a 2015 Glowlight Plus, which do you prefer and why? I know Tolinos can buy from multiple bookstores and do some other things, but do you use those functions?

Your pimping for cheap Tolinos has me curious, but I suspect that it doesn't do anything my Plus doesn't do. Just wanted to check. I have the itch to get one, but suspect I'd have buyer's remorse once I got it
I like both of the readers, but if I had to choose one, it would be the Shine 2 HD. Mostly because I can use it (directly) on Overdrive and on several bookstores. It has a web browser and built in ADE (wish the Nook would enable a web browser) which allows this. This is important to me because I don't have ADE on my computer and this is how I get DRM ePub books. The other big plus for me is that the Tolino allows me to load custom fonts. (Though you can't choose between, thin, normal and thick, like you can with the Nook.) That's about it, but these are both important for me, though.

Where is the Glowlight better? Flush screen. Brighter light. Waterproof. Better dictionary. Even though the Glowlight was priced closer to the Shine 2 HD, it has more in common with the Tolino Vision 3 HD. (The Vision 3 is waterproof and has a flush screen, and brighter lighting.)

Both the Nook and Tolino have "clean" reading screens, though I like that the Tolinos don't have headers. Just the page numbers at the bottom.
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