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Hi All

I have been researching for a while now to buy my first eInk reader. My requirements are few, however they are specific and my research brought me to a couple of conclusions up until I remembered one last thing I would really like and since then I have struggled finding a complete answer.

I narrowed down to the Kobo Aura HD or the Sony PRS T3. I have found both for sale second hand in Australia at good prices and was just about to buy the Sony when I did a quick search on the ability to use Cyrillic fonts in order to read books in Russian. Lo and behold, Google fails me. The search is so sparse and I find very little comprehensive information.

The overwhelming sense is that the Sony eBook readers are country specific and unless I buy the Russian version, I will not be able to read Russian eBooks. Is this true? Because I am having a hard time believing that I could not just simply load a font onto the English version. I read about embedding fonts into ePubs using calibre? Is this achievable with cyrillic fonts and compatible with the Sony? Have I missed something completely and does Sony actually support the ability to read Russian eBooks on all models?

Failing the ability to do that, do you, Mobileread users, have any suggestions for other eBook readers based on this criteria.

- Good PDF support (yes I have done my research here, I was content with the Sony reviews for PDF). It is not my most used format, but I do have them in my collection.
- No front light necessary/ability to turn it off.
- Russian support with English/Russian dictionary.
- Under 160 Australian Dollars
- Simple, with the hope that it will last a time. I am not one of those people that "upgrades" every year when something gets released.


Thank you in advance!

f0liev3rte