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Old 09-14-2011, 01:27 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by pdani View Post
I did try - I downloaded some books in Hebrew and they came up as unreadable garbage. is there an issue with the format e.g. epub, mobi etc.? perhaps some formats work and others don't. I needed to convert them in calibre from epub to mobi so maybe the problem is with the conversion - do I need to set up some special options etc.?
That explains it. The Mobipocket format, which the Kindle uses, does not support right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. You should look at ePub devices if you need to read RTL.
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