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Originally Posted by Hedaya
And while work arounds like rooting and so forth "work", this has got to reach a level of ease of use that everyone can work with.
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I totally agree with you on that, but, IMHO, the problem is simply that there doesn't seem to be much demand for foreign language support besides the usual FIGS implementations.
For example, I can read Russian books on my Kindle, but it doesn't support dictionary lookup for Russian ebooks, even though the (much older) Mobipocket software it's based on does. And Russian is certainly not an exotic language.
As for Arabic, the problem is that pretty much all Arabic ePubs that you can find on the Internet are non-fiction books about topics related to Islam, which is great for Muslims and Islam scholars but bad news for everyone else.
There's no real Arabic equivalent of Project Gutenberg and the Arabic version of Wikisource has only a handful of non-fiction books in it. Since the ebook market is content driven, it's no wonder that there isn't much interest in offering ebook readers with full Arabic support, because there simply isn't any interesting content (free or otherwise) with mass appeal.
As for rooting the Nook, have you looked on Craigslist? Unless you live in the middle of nowhere (or outside the US), you should be able to find someone who'll root your Nook for a small fee, which is still cheaper than investing in yet another reader or app.