inkBOOK Prime vs Tolino Shine 3

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Review Date: April 2017 - Review unit provided by Arta Tech Overview The InkBook Prime is the latest ebook reader from Arta Tech, an ereader company based in Poland. With a Polish ebookstore onboard, the device is tailored to their home market, but they sell InkBooks in other countries as well from various Amazon websites.Read more

Arta Tech has been developing e-readers for a number of years and have scored a major victory with the InkBook Prime. The overall build quality premium device is really solid and it won a Red Dot award for industrial design. Hardware The InkBook Prime features a six inch e-Ink Carta touchscreen with a resolution of 1024 x 758 and 212 PPI. The screen is completely flush with the bezel, this makes it easier to use the touchscreen. You can read in the dark via the front-lit display and it has 8 LED lights, which provides great illumination that is evenlyRead more

Tolino has issued three different generations of the Shine e-reader, which is their mid level device. This is the first model in the lineup that was designed by Kobo and the Shine 3 is basically the Kobo Clara HD shell and internals. It does have Tolino software and the Tolino bookstore, which is appealing to the German audience. In late 2017 Kobo purchased the Tolino ecosystem from Deutsche Telekom.  The deal gave Kobo full control over the hardware and software of the Tolino brand.  The other members of the Tolino Alliance still sold ebooks via the Tolino Bookstore and soldRead more