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We are pleased to release the first set/collections of ebooks of Tamil literary works of Project Madurai in "epub" format for use in portable mobile platforms and in ebook readers such as Apple IPad, Samsung Galaxy Tabs, Google Nexus and others.
A list of ebooks in "epub" format currently available is listed in the following webpage
You can use the links therein to download the file. Use the right-click of the mouse to save the file, else the browser may display the ebook within the browser window. (These ebooks in epub format can be viewed on personal computers and laptops on many browsers
using the respective epub reader plugins)
Save the downloaded file in your portable device and then upload to the free "ebook" reader of Android OS (called ebook) and Apple iOS (called iBook) to read the ebook therein.
The ebooks in "epub" format has been tested on several smartphones and tablets running on Google Android OS 2.3 (Gingerbread), 3.1/3.2 (Honeycomb), 4.0 / Icecream Sandwich) and 4.1/4.2 (Jelly Bean) versions and also on Apple iOS based IPads and IPhones.
The epub files have the Tamil font embedded in them and so there is no need for the users to specifically install the Tamil Unicode font to read the ebooks in the mobile (smartphones) and portable tablet/ebook readers. Android 4.x and Apple iOS systems come with a Unicode Tamil font and the portable devices display Tamil text using this system font. In earlier versions, etexts are displayed using the embedded Tamil Font.
Distribution of etexts in epub format for use in portable platforms is another initiative of Project Madurai so as to have these ebooks usable on portable devices. Feel free to post your comments and suggestions on this initiative.
If you would like to have the epub version of any particular Tamil work released as part of Project Madurai collections, please post your request to this list. We will try to prepare the epub file and post a note here after uploading the same in our web-server.
You are welcome to distribute these epub files FREE to third parties. But remember that you need to retain the header part of the file with the PM logo and acknowledgement lines to the Promads who helped us prepared the etext.
If you have any questions or difficulties in using these ebooks, feel free to send us an email (to pmadurai AT gmail.com ). We will do our best to help you out.