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Old 04-08-2015, 04:24 AM   #1
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Hello all. I am new to this forum. I have Kindle Paperwhite 3G [model number 53-000965]
I would like to read Hindi and South Indian languages like Tamil and Telugu.
Has anyone here successfully installed South Indian fonts without jailbreak in Kindle Paperwhite?
Can you please brief me on how you did it?
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Old 04-08-2015, 04:34 AM   #2
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Old 04-08-2015, 05:53 AM   #3
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No. you cant. Amazon has systematically removed non cyrillic languages. you can though read tamil and telugu and kannada in pdf format. the very few ebboks in hindi do not have a very pleasant rendering. neither does it have any dictionary nor xray. so goodluck
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Hello all. I am new to this forum. I have Kindle Paperwhite 3G [model number 53-000965]
I would like to read Hindi and South Indian languages like Tamil and Telugu.
Has anyone here successfully installed South Indian fonts without jailbreak in Kindle Paperwhite?
Can you please brief me on how you did it?
Hindi and Tamil language ebooks are listed in the Kindle Store. There's also Bengali, and I could have sworn I saw Gujarati (it's no longer showing up).

I'd get one of each and see what happens.

Also, the Kindle does support embedded fonts. It is possible for you to make an ebook, embed the correct font, and load it on to the Kindle.
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No. you cant. Amazon has systematically removed non cyrillic languages. you can though read tamil and telugu and kannada in pdf format. the very few ebboks in hindi do not have a very pleasant rendering. neither does it have any dictionary nor xray. so goodluck
While it is true that you can't add more fonts to the newer Kindles, I don't think it's true that you can't read tamil books (and probably others on your list). Polarrat, please take a look at this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=258758

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No. you cant. Amazon has systematically removed non cyrillic languages.
I really don't understand what you mean by that. Can you elaborate?
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I really don't understand what you mean by that. Can you elaborate?
cyrillic was my bad. what i meant was non english and containing cyrillic etc type scripts.

check this out: http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/am...otr-kowalczyk/

quite a while back i saw many ebooks that do not belong to the the latin script on the amazon website. now most have vanished. the ones that are still available would do better as pdf imho.

i had frantically searched for books in devanagiri script but all i could get was a *few* books. not that the scripts doesnt have literature. you can find shitload of epubs, but when you try to convert it to mobi or azw3 through calibre, the system f**ks it up.
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cyrillic was my bad. what i meant was non english and containing cyrillic etc type scripts.

check this out: http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/am...otr-kowalczyk/

quite a while back i saw many ebooks that do not belong to the the latin script on the amazon website. now most have vanished. the ones that are still available would do better as pdf imho.

i had frantically searched for books in devanagiri script but all i could get was a *few* books. not that the scripts doesnt have literature. you can find shitload of epubs, but when you try to convert it to mobi or azw3 through calibre, the system f**ks it up.
I have no idea what you're talking about.

Amazon added official support for a bunch new languages in 2013:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2013/0...ore-expansion/

They added a Polish section to the Kindle store last fall (also Hindi and Russian):
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...ussian-ebooks/

And in February they added sections for Swahili and other languages:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...-kindle-store/
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Old 04-08-2015, 05:02 PM   #9
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I would like to read Hindi and South Indian languages like Tamil and Telugu.
If you already have Tamil or Telugu ebooks, make sure to select AZW3 (not MOBI) as the output format in Calibre when converting these books.

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Also, the Kindle does support embedded fonts. It is possible for you to make an ebook, embed the correct font, and load it on to the Kindle.
Unfortunately, there are some problems with font embedding for languages covered by the code2000 Unicode fallback font, which covers pretty much all non-Latin Unicode ranges (except for Greek, Cyrillic and CJK characters). For example, embedded Arabic fonts are not being rendered correctly. For more information, see this post.
Since Indic languages also have letters that are combined with vowel signs, embedded Indic fonts might also be rendered incorrectly.
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If you already have Tamil or Telugu ebooks, make sure to select AZW3 (not MOBI) as the output format in Calibre when converting these books.



Unfortunately, there are some problems with font embedding for languages covered by the code2000 Unicode fallback font, which covers pretty much all non-Latin Unicode ranges (except for Greek, Cyrillic and CJK characters). For example, embedded Arabic fonts are not being rendered correctly. For more information, see this post.
Since Indic languages also have letters that are combined with vowel signs, embedded Indic fonts might also be rendered incorrectly.
Thanks. I didn't know.
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Old 04-09-2015, 03:13 AM   #11
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If you already have Tamil or Telugu ebooks, make sure to select AZW3 (not MOBI) as the output format in Calibre when converting these books.



Unfortunately, there are some problems with font embedding for languages covered by the code2000 Unicode fallback font, which covers pretty much all non-Latin Unicode ranges (except for Greek, Cyrillic and CJK characters). For example, embedded Arabic fonts are not being rendered correctly. For more information, see this post.
Since Indic languages also have letters that are combined with vowel signs, embedded Indic fonts might also be rendered incorrectly.
this is one of the pain in the rear points. the vowels and consonant rendering is a problem. to compare, there are a bazillion epubs of such languages, even on google play store, but nothing on the amazon store. and conversion through calibre is in itself a royal pain in the arse, as mentioned above.
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There's been another thread posted in the last few days in which someone posted some screenshots of Tamil on the Kindle and the Kobo, and the person who created the thread said that they were correctly rendered on both devices.
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There's been another thread posted in the last few days in which someone posted some screenshots of Tamil on the Kindle and the Kobo, and the person who created the thread said that they were correctly rendered on both devices.
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No. ePub on the Kobo and KF8 on the Kindle. See this thread.
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I do know that openoffice reads all the before mentioned languages like a native and can help you read ebooks if you do so on a laptop or other device with a hard drive.
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