compact reading pleasuer in color

So lightweight that you can take it anywhere, and so colorful that stories come to life right on the cover: the tolino shine color is the compact eReader for relaxed reading in everyday life — at home, on the go, and whenever you have a moment.

The perfect combination of portability and functionality

The small all-rounder impresses with its compact and light light design, which not only sits comfortably in the hand, but also enables one-handed reading. Immerse yourself in optimal reading pleasure thanks to the latest technology, color display and audiobook function. Thanks to its water protection, the tolino shine color enables carefree reading fun in the bathtub or by the pool. Small, smart and packed with functions – your compact companion for unlimited reading pleasure!

Small, sleek, and packed with features—your compact companion for endless reading pleasure!

Small in size, big in possibilities

  • Colorful stories are waiting for you

    The tolino shine color brings your favorite content to life with its innovative color screen in up to 4,096 shades. The high-resolution screen also presents black and white content in high contrast and razor sharpness. Immerse yourself in the world of color and experience covers, comics, children’s books, recipes and self-help eBooks as they were meant to be experienced, turning every story into a colorful adventure.

  • Cozy up with a book, even in the water

    The waterproof tolino shine color eBook reader is readyfor any eventuality, including a long soak in the tub or at thepoolside with your new favorite page-turner eBook.

  • Wireless listening pleasure: your audiobooks any place, anytime

    Thanks to integrated Bluetooth technology, you can now enjoy your favorite titles as audiobooks wirelessly using headphones or speakers. Ideal for those moments when you don’t have your hands free. Be enchanted by stories.

Discover the tolino shine color!

Always with you: Extra-large storage for your favorite books

The small all-rounder impresses with its compact and light design, which not only sits comfortably in the hand, but also enables one-handed reading. Immerse yourself in optimal reading pleasure thanks to the latest technology, color display and audiobook function. Thanks to its water protection, the tolino shine color enables carefree reading fun in the bathtub or by the pool. Small, smart and packed with functions – your compact companion for unlimited reading pleasure!

tolino shine color

Compact reading pleasure in color

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ALL ADVANTAGES AT A GLANCE

  • 6-inch color display: High-resolution 6-inch E Ink Kaleido 3 touchscreen with 4,096 colors for vivid content
  • Audiobook playback: Enjoy audiobooks via Bluetooth
  • Water protection: For carefree reading in the bathtub or by the pool
  • 16 GB internal memory (for up to 12,000 eBooks or 75 audiobooks)
  • smartLight: Optimal reading light by day and night
  • Weeks of battery life for hours of reading without frequent recharging
  • Family Sharing: Easily share eBooks and audiobooks with up to 6 family members
  • Fixed Layout: Enjoy your favorite comics, manga, or illustrated children’s books in the best possible way
  • Access to millions of eBooks and audiobooks
  • Onleihe: Compatible with eBooks from public lending libraries
  • Compatible with tolino flip: The remote control for tolino eReaders

Enjoy Audiobooks via Bluetooth

Thanks to integrated Bluetooth technology, you can now enjoy your digital audio books purchased from a tolino bookseller wirelessly via headphones or speakers and even set the playback speed individually. Ideal for those moments when you don’t have your hands free.

Good to know: You can customize the playback speed of the audiobook!

Always with you, fully equipped

The tolino shine color is perfect for on the go: lightweight, easy to navigate, and comfortable to hold—whether on the train, at a café, or on the sofa. Despite its compact size, it’s packed with smart features that make everyday reading even more relaxing, flexible, and personalized.

With its clever adjustment of the color temperature, the tolino shine color always provides the most pleasant lighting for reading. In harmony with natural daylight, it changes from cool white light in the morning to warm white light in the evening as required. This means your biorhythm is not disturbed and you can enjoy relaxed reading moments at any time of day or night. Of course, you can also switch the lighting off completely during the day to extend the battery life even further. Thanks to the glare-free screen, you can read as if you were reading on paper, without any annoying reflections from sunlight.

Experience optimal reading comfort thanks to many intelligent reading functions on the tolino eReader. Choose from various fonts optimized for the E Ink display and vary the preferred font size according to your wishes. The additional text settings for margins, text alignment and line spacing also allow you to enjoy a pleasant reading flow for comfortable reading hours. Notes and highlights in the eBook, look up words or translate directly in the eBook? No problem for your tolino eReader! Simply select a word in the eBook and have the word definition or translation displayed in a matter of seconds.

tolino relies on openness and leaves it up to you to decide which bookseller you would like to purchase your eBooks or audiobooks from. You can enjoy the complete range of all tolino eBook retailers. You can conveniently load existing EPUB and PDF eBooks onto the tolino shine color and read them there. With the tolino cloud synchronization and the tolino library link, tolino offers you particularly practical functions for this.

Equipped for all eventualities, with the water-protected tolino shine color eBook reader you can also enjoy a relaxing reading time with your new favorite eBook or audio book in the bathtub or by the pool.

Unlimited Freedom to Read with the tolino shine color

With the tolino shine color, reading knows no bounds: Whether from different stores or existing libraries—this e-reader brings a wide variety of content together on a single device, giving you more freedom to choose your next book.

  • Limitless freedom – buy eBooks wherever you wan

    tolino is all about free choice, leaving the decision where you want to buy your eBooks and audiobooks entirely up to you. That way you can enjoy the full range of eBooks from all available tolino
    bookstores. Simply load existing EPUB, PDF, MOBI eBooks, TXTfiles, comics in CBR or CBZ format, and images in JPEG or PNG format onto your eReader. With tolino cloud synchronization, you never lose track of your reading and listening progress, regardless of which device you are using

  • Compatible with eBooks from public libraries

    The tolino shine color is compatible with eBooks from many public lending libraries. Thanks to its dedicated “Onleihe” menu item, borrowed titles can be quickly and easily transferred to the e-reader—and are ready to read in an instant.
    Click here for more information about the Onleihe service on tolino e-readers!

  • Library Link: Multiple tolino Shops, One Library

    With the tolino Library Link, you’re not tied to a single bookseller when purchasing your eBooks. You can conveniently merge the libraries from various tolino stores and access all your purchased titles in a single view via the tolino cloud. You can easily link and manage your accounts and e-readers yourself—right on your tolino e-reader, in the tolino app, in the tolino web reader, or in the customer portal of your tolino bookseller.

  • tolino Family Sharing – Enjoy the Best Stories Together

    Share an eBook that you love. Share a gripping audiobook with a tap and discuss it with others. All of this is now possible with Family Sharing. Up to six family members can now access your favorite stories—with complete flexibility and convenience. With just a few clicks, you can invite your family members to read along, and with a simple tap, you can choose which eBook or audiobook you want to share with each family member.
    Click here for more information about Family Sharing!

tolino cloud: Manage and sync eBooks more easily

The tolino shine color gives you free access to the tolino cloud, the secure online storage space for your reading content. Your purchased eBooks and audiobooks can be stored there, as well as eBooks that you upload to the tolino cloud yourself. You can access your saved eBooks and audiobooks at any time, even when you are on the move. These can be synchronized with up to 5 devices.

The remote control for your tolino shine color

The tolino flip is the perfect complement to your tolino shine color.
With just the press of a button, you can turn pages wirelessly in your eBooks—conveniently, even when you’re not holding the reader.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS AT A GLANCE

Display

6-inch E Ink Kaleido 3
Resolution: 1448 × 1072 pixels – 300 ppi (black-and-white content) & 150 ppi (color content)

Design

Compact and handy design

Touchscreen

Powerful capacitive touchscreen
to support multi-touch with two fingers, including simple touch/tap, swipe/scroll, pinch (zoom in/out)

Weight

173 g

Dimensions

112 × 160 × 9.1 mm
(minor deviations are possible due to the manufacturing process)

Light

Built-in lighting with smartLight
(manual or automatic adjustment of the color temperature depending on the time of day)

Water protection

Water-repellent IPX8 coating
(protected for up to 60 minutes in up to 2 m of fresh water)

Battery

Lithium-polymer battery, 1,500–1,900 mAh

Battery capacity

Weeks of battery life
(depending on individual usage)

Processor

MediaTEK MTK8113T – Dual-Core ARM A53 2.0 GHz

RAM

512 MB

Internal Memory

16 GB

tolino cloud

25 GB of additional cloud storage

e-Book Formats

EPUB, MOBI, PDF, TXT, CBR, CBZ, JPEG, and PNG
compatible with eBooks from public libraries (Onleihe)

Connectivity

Wi-Fi ac/b/g/n (2.4 and 5 GHz) + Bluetooth 5.0,
including access to Deutsche Telekom AG hotspots throughout Germany

Connectivity

USB-C

Features

Hall sensor for use with smart protective cases with stand-by/wake-up function, magnification mode, tolino Family Sharing, free software updates, left-handed mode

System Languages

German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch

Included in the box

tolino shine color eReader, USB-C cable, warranty booklet, quick start guide
additional accessories available separately