Tolino is broken

I got two Kindles (2nd generation) a long time ago, which prompted me to finally start reading more again. Basically, it worked quite well; I installed Calibre, imported books and moved them to the Kindle from there.

However, I quickly wanted a more up-to-date device that wasn’t from Amazon. I decided on the Tolino Vision 6 and after playing around a bit, I discovered a few things that really annoyed me:

1. when the device is tilted, an icon appears on the right edge with which the orientation can be changed. This wouldn’t be so bad if the icon didn’t obscure the text underneath. Actually, I don’t want this function at all, but I can’t switch it off.

2. the power button reacts very spongily. After the ‘click’, it has to be pressed a little harder to make it react.

3. the book view in the software is worse than on the old Kindle. I can’t see which page I’m on when turning pages and the alphabet at the bottom is absolutely useless because it’s too small.

My conclusion: I’m not giving up hope that one day there will be a manufacturer who produces a good and open device so that you can install another reader without jailbreak if you don’t like the one that came with it. As far as I’m concerned, the guarantee can be cancelled, I’m not particularly interested in that.

Rant over.