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Hello,
I've just made what to me is an interesting discovery. I had e-mailed Aluratek to ask whether the Libre could display Chinese characters. Their answer was no. Later, on this forum, I saw people talking about 'flashing' their Libres to jetbook firmware to make the Chinese characters available. That was too complicated for me, because I am not computer savvy. Later, I saw someone explain how you could see Chinese characters, if you used PDF files. I tried that, but when I opened these files, the characters were tiny. If I hit 'zoom' the characters disappeared off the edge of the page and I could only view them by using the arrow keys, which made the page jump sideways, in a very jerky, annoying way. I had also read that you could fix that by re-setting the margins so they were really narrow, but I wasn't sure how to do that with PDF files. Then, by chance, I happened to hit on a solution that works for me. I had just downloaded OpenOffice and saved a Chinese file, by clicking on 'export as PDF'. When I looked at that particular file on my Libre, it was working just like an ePub file, with proper flow and zoom functions. I could set the characters any size I wanted and they didn't disappear off the edge of the page. I was thrilled, because now my Libre was a perfectly good Chinese e-reader and I didn't have to go searching for a Hanvon, which I really can't afford. Anyway, hope my little discovery helps other people.