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I've heard that people read malayalam (മലയാളം) ebooks on kindle. Not the images placed in a PDF file. The file which we can read like normal ebook format (controlling the fontsize mainly).

I tried installing a few fonts. They failed too. Is there a good way that can easily get my kindle the ability to make reading malayalam ebooks possible on my kindle?

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  • `hey arun if you find out something post iam also trying to find something out to read the malayalam pdf files danny –  Dec 28 '15 at 13:06
  • Sure Danny. I'll try it out and will keep you posted with something if I find. You can favourite the question and you'll get it when I post a comment. – Arun Anson Dec 28 '15 at 13:33
  • Also check out this answer: https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/6715/malayalam-epub-to-kindle-format/6793#6793 – Khalid Hussain Oct 30 '17 at 18:30

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Is there a good way that can easily get my kindle the ability to make reading malayalam ebooks possible on my kindle?

  1. Create an ePub file with Calibre and/or find an existing ePub file. Make sure that the source epub file is properly encoded. (I.e., if you open it with Calibre, it must show Malayalam characters.)
  2. If it does, simply convert it to an AZW3 file (not a MOBI file) with Calibre, copy it to the documents folder of the Kindle and you're done.
  • I'll try it and let you know the results. – Arun Anson Dec 27 '15 at 17:50
  • No @Nemo XXX, this didn't work after transferring it to kindle. It shows some bogus characters like we don't have a font on the system. Do we need to install some font? I've tried and failed earlier on this matter. – Arun Anson Dec 30 '15 at 14:55
  • A couple of questions:
    1. Did you open the source ePub with Calibre and did it display OK?
    2. Did you convert it to an AZW3 file?
    3. Did you manually copy it to the Kindle using an USB cable?
     –  Dec 30 '15 at 15:01
  • Did you open the source ePub with Calibre and did it display OK? ( YES ) 2. Did you convert it to an AZW3 file? ( YES ) 3. Did you manually copy it to the Kindle using an USB cable? (I copied with KDEASY)
    • – Arun Anson Dec 30 '15 at 15:02
  • KDEASY might have re-converted the AZW3 file to the old format. Please connect the Kindle with an USB cable and manually copy the book to the Kindle documents folder (without using KDEASY). –  Dec 30 '15 at 15:10
  • It didn't help. I tried to manually copy-pasting the file into the document folder of my kindle. It showed the book. But the text is not in readable format. Just like the older conversion. – Arun Anson Dec 31 '15 at 07:57
  • This is very strange. Maybe there's a Calibre AZW3 conversion bug. (I always use the official KindleGen compiler.) Please re-convert your test book with KindleGen or if you're not a command line fan, use Kindle Previewer instead. Also, if you're using an older eInk Kindle make sure that it has the latest firmware installed. For testing purposes I converted a random Malayalam newspaper article from ePub to Kindle AZW3 and tested it on my Kindle Paperwhite. It appears to look OK. –  Dec 31 '15 at 12:33
  • Some diacritics might be displaced, but since I don't speak Malayalam, I don't know how big an issue this is. You can see a picture of the result here and you can download the source file and the converted AZW3 file here. –  Dec 31 '15 at 12:34