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[Ali-Mohammed]

Salam,

Is it possible to read pdf or word books in arabic in Ipad, Kindle and Samsung or other ?

Thanks

Ma'as Salama

[Gypsy]

Kindle uses .mobi formal. If you can get anybook converted in the .mobi formal, then I don't see why you wouldn't be able to read arabic books on kindle. The newer kindle model does support pdf.

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http://www.amazon.co...odeId=200375630

Built-in PDF reader for Kindle 2nd Generation devices

Your Kindle 2nd Generation device can display PDF documents without losing the formatting of the original file. Send PDF documents directly to your Kindle device (via your Send-to-Kindle address), or drag and drop PDF files from your computer to your Kindle device via USB. You can also magnify PDFs by viewing them in landscape mode.

Samsung? You mean phones? Some people install kindle apps on their phones to read books.

Here is my experience using ipad2 as an ebook reader
http://www.shiachat....n-ebook-reader/

Edited by Gypsy, 05 April 2012 - 11:34 AM.

[Ali-Mohammed]

Thank you,

I'm not sure for the kindle.

And for the Ipad, do you tried with arabic pdf ?

No, for Samsung I speak for the Samsung like Kindle, Ipad not phone

[Ali-Mohammed]

Please, if do you have any information about the kindle (arabic books)

[Gypsy]

The IPad2 and above can read the pdf natively. So opening the pdf book/document is not a problem. I use the goodreader software for my reading.

I generally don't have much problem with reading pdf books/document containing arabic script/font. Even when the specific arabic font is not installed on my machine, you don't encounter much problem with opening and viewing the arabic books/documents.

[Ali-Mohammed]

Thank you

If anyone has got more informations about kindle too

[vazeer]

Info from other resources.

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The Kindle DX supports Arabic in two ways: natively with .AZW files and via PDF. There are already some Arabic text books available for Kindle, including Faruk Abu-Chacra'sArabic: An Essential Grammar and the Qur'an.

The Kindle DOES NOT SUPPORT Arabic .MOBI or .PRC files because the default fonts are not fully Unicode compliant and don't support Arabic.

You can also create PDF's of Arabic language documents and mail them to your Kindle account for a small fee, which depends on the size of the file. I've used a variety of fonts in documents I've created myself and they all display on the Kindle almost exactly as they do in the original.

All types of Kindle support the above mentioned AZW and PDF formats. To avoid paying Amazon a fee for transmitting the file to your Kindle you can also achieve the same result using the supplied USB cable or a WiFi connection.

You can also convert Arabic text into series of images as in following example. You can check the Qur'an which is converted into series of images for kindle.