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Originally Posted by Gazella20
What's the use of this? Are there Arabic ebooks available online? I'd be interested to know. Arabic is my main language but I always read English ebooks as I rarely find Arabic ebooks on the web.
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Most likely Arab publishers didn't bother producing Arabic ebooks, because until a few years ago the majority of ebook readers couldn't render RTL text correctly. Also there's no equivalent of Project Gutenberg for Arabic books and the few sites that host Arabic ebooks seem to mostly offer Islam-centric ebooks, but if you look hard enough, you can find epub versions of books such as
Kalila wa Dimna and
Alf Layla wa Layla.
BTW, you could also create your own books from the .html files hosted at the
Arabic Wikisouce website.
Hopefully, the increased availability of ereaders with Arabic support will eventually convince Arab publishers to offer their books as ebooks, too.