16. Glossary


Adobe® DRM
Adobe provides a form of copy protection called "Adobe® Digital Rights Management", also known as "Adobe® DRM". If you buy or borrow an eBook that is protected with this form of DRM, you will have to register with Adobe® and acquire an Adobe® ID. You can do this quite quickly and easily at www.adobe.com/go/digital-editions-createID
Then you register your Adobe® ID with your tolino eReader and can enjoy your book.
By the way: If you borrow an eBook from a public lending library you will also need Adobe® DRM, which ensures that the lending period is adhered to. Once this period is over, you can no longer open the eBook and will have to borrow it again.

eBooks on your tolino eReader will rarely use Adobe® DRM copy protection. But if you do want to open an eBook that is protected by Adobe® DRM, you will receive a notification and be prompted to enter your Adobe® ID.

Library link
Sometimes, you may have bought one book from one bookseller's shop and another book from a different bookseller. In order to see both books in your library, you'll have to link your libraries.

Our recommendation: If you share your tolino eReader with another family member and each of you has bought books in a different shop, we suggest that you link the libraries.

EPUB
Books (eBooks) come in different formats. Your tolino eReader uses the ePub format by default. This format may contain text and images. When you open an eBook, this content is loaded onto your tolino eReader.
But your tolino eReader can also read and display other text formats such as PDF or TXT.

Device management
Once you are logged in to a bookseller, you have several options for reading your eBooks: e.g. with your tolino eReader, via the tolino app on your smartphone or tablet, or using the tolino web reader. Device management ensures that you can access your library from up to five different devices. If you exceed this number, a message automatically appears that allows you to deregister devices you are no longer using.

Hotspot
A hotspot is a wireless network which anyone can log on to with a mobile device to access the Internet. This allows you to browse the Internet with your tolino eReader, smartphone, tablet or laptop when you are not at home. Some hotspots are free, while others require you to pay to use them. In Germany there are numerous Telekom HotSpots you can access free of charge with your tolino eReader.

Customer account
A free customer account allows you to use the tolino cloud, visit your book retailer's shop or access your stored eBooks from other devices.

microSD card
microSD cards are small storage chips that are used in the tolino eReader, but also in smartphones and cameras, to store and exchange data.

Collections
You can create collections in your library. These collections are like shelves which you can fill with your favorite books. You could for example create a thriller collection that contains only your most exciting eBooks. Or a collection of the best romance novels? It's up to you.
The clever thing about it: You can include the same book in several collections. For example, you could add a detective story to your "Holiday reads", "Thrillers" and "Books from Sweden" collections.

tolino cloud
The tolino cloud is like an external hard drive where you can store your eBooks – except it's online. The advantage: you don't have to regularly back up your eBooks – we do that for you. This means your eBooks are always safe.

tolino webreader
The tolino webreader lets you read, manage or upload your eBooks to the tolino cloud directly from the website of your book retailer.

USB
The Universal Serial Bus is an interface to connect electronic devices (e.g. your tolino eReader or a computer) with each other to exchange data.

WLAN
Our tolino eReaders use wireless networks to let you connect easily to the Internet without using a cable. If you want to access your bookseller's shop or the tolino cloud, you first have to connect to the Internet via WLAN. Of course you can also disable WLAN, for example if you are on a plane and switch your tolino eReader to flight mode.