An incomplete list of differences between kobo and tolino:
- different sync/account backend and api
- different fonts
- dictionary stuff might be different; not obvious at first glance
- different default system font is loaded
- tracking of reading sessions is disabled
- all EventEngine tracking is disabled
- Google Analytics queue is disabled
- sideloaded books are only loaded from the dedicated sideload dir (/mnt/onboard/Books)
- Kobo Customer Care stuff disabled (like with Walmart, Rakuten, and RakutenNEC)
- Branded device name is tolino instead of Kobo
- Branded stylus name is tolino stylus instead of Kobo Stylus
- Help URL is mytolino.com instead of help.kobo.com
- No support for reviewing books
- No support for reading life stats
- No support for discover tab (i.e., store)
- No support for series view (TODO: make a patch for this so people can use NickelSeries)
- No support for more by this author
- No support for wishlist
- No support for activity button in more tab
- No support for pocket
- No support for dropbox
- No support for overdrive
- Homepage is https://duckduckgo.com/?ka=1 instead of https://www.google.com or whatever the affiliate default is
- Something about showing the book cover on the sleep screen, but I need to look at it more
- Supported demo regions (TODO: actually figure out which)
- Supported locales (TODO: actually figure out which)
- Tolino wifi
- Something about the my books filtering by language (TODO: look at this more)
- Larger dictionary font size (wtf, lol)
- Dictionary uses "Bariol" font
- Support for enabling sideloaded mode during device setup
- Computer setup goes directly to sideloaded mode instead of telling you to use the Kobo App.
- No "Find A Book" page in the quick tour
- Most displays of formatted content (e.g., book descriptions) uses "Bariol" font
- Something about notebooks (TODO: look at this more)
- RGB frontlight info page uses "Bariol" font
- Three buttons are added/removed from the nav buttons (TODO: figure out which)
- Second row of home screen is different (TODO: I think it's showing recommended books, but I need to look at it more)
- qApp_tolino=true
- Different Qt RCC file loaded
- Color instead of Colour in various places
- kobo sync services disabled
- custom tolino-branded power-off image
- partition is named eReader instead of KOBOeReader
- sign out is just sign out, not a soft reset (I think, need to confirm)
- "Energy saving" instead of "Energy saving and privacy" (cause it doesn't track user data lol)
- various about/legal/help text changes
- no "Repair account" option (probably since you can just sign out and back in)
- "Kobo Store -> "Store", "Shop Kobo" -> "Shop" in various places
- no automatic notebook backup
- no hotspot test (I think, need to confirm)
- Different Qt RCC file loaded
https://github.com/pgaskin/kobopatch-patches/issues/128