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Old 03-01-2015, 04:24 AM   #1
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Reading punjabi books on the kindle paperwhite
Hi All,

This is my first ever post at this wonderful form which has provided me with a great insight into my first ever e-reader: the kindle paperwhite.

everything is working fine though except a major thing: I can not read any punjabi ebook on my kindle. that is not a show stopper as i am an admirer of english as well, but i want to read punjabi books on my paperwhite as well.

i have tried converting PDFs (the only format in which most of the punjabi books are available) but the result is total annihilation of text and fonts. the text is romanised and i cant make anything of it.

to add to my woes, there are NO punjabi books available on the kindle. can anyone help me over here?

this might not be the correct forum to put these questions, but since i am new here, i hope i will be redirected to the current sub-forum.
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Old 03-01-2015, 06:35 AM   #2
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Old 03-01-2015, 07:37 AM   #3
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thanks dr. drib but these are not kindle editions. these are either paperbacks or hardcovers. can anyone please help in this regards?
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thanks dr. drib but these are not kindle editions. these are either paperbacks or hardcovers. can anyone please help in this regards?

You're absolutely right. I failed to notice that.
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Old 03-01-2015, 10:53 AM   #5
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so anything that can be done? every language has phenomenal writers and poets. and its a terrible shame that one can not enjoy their works which are available online.

eg: gaban and godaan by premchand (The best hindi novelist of modern era) has his books priced at pennies at amazon. yet, all of his works come under public domain as they were written more than 80 years ago...strange..
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one thing can be done is to jailbreak my pw2. but i am on a newer firmware and can not jailbreak. any help on this either?
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i have tried converting PDFs (the only format in which most of the punjabi books are available) but the result is total annihilation of text and fonts.
If the pdfs are not image based (i.e. if you can select text in them) try copying some text to MS Word or an editor. If the text is correctly encoded, maybe your Calibre settings are off.
If the text is garbled, the pdf was most likely encoded using custom fonts and non-Unicode encoding standards. In this case you'll have to find out what Punjabi text encoding schemes where used before the introduction of Unicode and try to find a converter that will convert the text to Unicode.
Also note that you can't embed fonts for Indic languages and that Indic languages are only supported in azw3 files. I.e. if you convert text, html or epub files with Calibre, you'll need to select azw3 instead of mobi as the output format.

If your pdfs are image based, give K2pdfopt a try. It's a language-agnostic tool that'll reformat .pdf files for Kindles.
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Old 03-02-2015, 11:22 AM   #8
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i am selecting azw3 but all i get is garbled roman. i have to install custom fonts on my pw2 imho. anyguesses???
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it works...works like a charm......with a few errors every 5-6 pages....but i can live with it............thank you doitsu.....thanks a ton...........
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it works...works like a charm......with a few errors every 5-6 pages....but i can live with it............thank you doitsu.....thanks a ton...........
Hi brother can you please explain how you successfully converted punjabi book for kindle. Thanks.
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