: Re: Quran ebook for kindle I have been trying to find Quran ebook for my Kindle, but haven't found anything notable yet. Are there any good ebooks out there ? My preference is for Arabic text

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Due to the nature of the content, flowable text is out of the question and thus all formats which depend on HTML and CSS in some form or another shouldn't be used.

The best choice for this use-case would be to use PDF, this would ensure the content is 'fixed'. The other limitation is that the content is not presentable using a single font, thus images have to be used; this is why fixed-layout ebook formats are not usable in this case as well.

I don't know of other ways of obtaining such a PDF file besides what you have already mentioned, so I decided to have a go at it myself with LaTeX.

Here's what I did:

1) Generate high-resolution PNG files of each page. You can use Quran.com's image generator found here. If you're on a Windows machine, you can use my fork found here.

2) Prepare a LaTeX document with settings specific to the geometry of your Kindle device.

3) Place each page image on a single PDF page and add page numbers and related footers/headers as you see fit.

I've tried creating a sample PDF with the first four pages, you can check the output in the comments (I don't have 10 reputation points yet).

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