gnazi71 Posted April 27, 2013 Posted April 27, 2013 Hello, I would like to buy a Sony ebook reader PRS-T2 for my wife (she is thai), we live in Switzerland. I wrote to the Sony customer support wondering if an e-reader bought in Switzerland will "read" e-books written in thai. They answered they are not pretty sure and it is better to buy it in Thailand (it is a little more expensive, no problem). In an italian forum someone told me that he bought the same device for his wife in Italy and can read thai e-books without problems. Is there anybody who has some sure information ? Anybody bought this device in Europe and reads e-books in thai (or any other non-latin language) ? Thank you.
gmac Posted April 27, 2013 Posted April 27, 2013 Sorry I can't answer your question but unless things have changed very recently I don't think the Sony e-readers are available for purchase in Thailand. I've seen Kindles and I believe there are various Chinese tablets but not Sony. I would be very surprised if a reader couldn't read Thai books as it is not a computer as such and as far as I know merely displays the contents of files. If ebooks are available in Thai in epub format, which is what my Sony reader seems to prefer, I would have thought that it would read them no matter where it is bought.
DefaultName Posted April 27, 2013 Posted April 27, 2013 Sorry I can't answer your question but unless things have changed very recently I don't think the Sony e-readers are available for purchase in Thailand. I've seen Kindles and I believe there are various Chinese tablets but not Sony. I would be very surprised if a reader couldn't read Thai books as it is not a computer as such and as far as I know merely displays the contents of files. If ebooks are available in Thai in epub format, which is what my Sony reader seems to prefer, I would have thought that it would read them no matter where it is bought. Actually, it IS a computer - albeit a simple, limited one - ebooks are stored digitally, not as images and have to be rendered for viewing. It will need to have a Thai font installed, just as any larger computer would. As long as it has that then it should work for Thai ePub books. I would assume that a reader bought in Thailand would have that as standard, outside Thailand...............???
gnazi71 Posted April 28, 2013 Author Posted April 28, 2013 Hello everybody ! Thank you for your replies. A friend of mine who lives in Pattaya said he saw the Sony PRS-T2 at Tukcom. I think we will buy it in Thailand so we won't have problems with thai e-books. It costs a little more but ... better to be quite sure.
gnazi71 Posted July 13, 2013 Author Posted July 13, 2013 Maybe someone is interested in buying one. We bought a Sony ebook reader T2 in Thailand and can read thai books bought via internet in Europe.
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