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PocketBook Touch vs Tolino Shine 3

4.49 in
6.81 in
PocketBook Touch Ebook Reader
PocketBook Touch
4.34 in
6.16 in
Tolino Shine 3 Ebook Reader
Tolino Shine 3
Editiorial reviews
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2 editorial reviews
Pocketbook Touch: Just Another Ebook Device? When our favourite distributor AlTech took on a new line of products from Pocketbook and sent me one of the top models, the Touch, I had to wonder where the market for e-book readers is going to take us in the coming years. With the proliferation of large smartphones and tablets, some of them as cheap as dedicated e-book readers, will there still be a market for the likes of Pocketbook Touch?Read more
The Touch HD 3 e-reader is one of the best mid level devices that Pocketbook has ever released. It has a very interesting design with the brushed aluminum and manual page turn buttons. The big selling points is the audio functionality, a color temperature glowlight system, Bluetooth and is the fact it is completely waterproof. The Pocketbook line of e-readers does not lock you into a walled garden and plays nice with the majority of ebook formats out there, such as PDF, EPUB, DJVU, FB2, FB2.ZIP, DOC, DOCX, RTF, PRC, TXT, CHM, HTM, HTML, MOBI, ACSM. Pocketbook pays a license feeRead more
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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
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User rating
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4.4 out of 5
39 user ratings
5 stars
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4 stars
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3 stars
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3.8 out of 5
61 user ratings
5 stars
27 %
4 stars
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3 stars
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2 stars
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Display

PocketBook TouchPocketBook Touch
Tolino Shine 3Tolino Shine 3
Touchscreenyesyes
Screen size6.0 in6.0 in
Screen resolution800 x 600 px1072 x 1448 px
Shades of grey1616

Technical details

PocketBook TouchPocketBook Touch
Tolino Shine 3Tolino Shine 3
Supported book file formats
  • DOC
  • DOCX
  • DJVU
  • HTML
  • EPUB
  • MOBI
  • PDF
  • PRC
  • RTF
  • TIFF
  • TXT
  • FB2
  • Zip
  • EPUB
  • PDF
  • TXT
Memory size2GB8GB
Maximum memory card size32GB25
Processor speed800.0 MHz1000.0 MHz
RAM size128.0 mB512.0 mB

Dimensions

PocketBook TouchPocketBook Touch
Tolino Shine 3Tolino Shine 3
Height6.81 in6.16 in
Width4.49 in4.34 in
Depth0.37 in0.33 in
Weight6.88 oz5.86 oz

Audio properties

PocketBook TouchPocketBook Touch
Tolino Shine 3Tolino Shine 3
Supported audio formats
  • MP3
  • BMP
Not supported

Connectivity

PocketBook TouchPocketBook Touch
Tolino Shine 3Tolino Shine 3
Wi-Fiyesno
USB typeMicro-USBMicro-USB

Battery

PocketBook TouchPocketBook Touch
Tolino Shine 3Tolino Shine 3
Battery typeLi-polymer
Lithium Polymer

Pros & Cons

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