Reading Tibetan with Kindle Paperwhite w/o jailbreaking

This is the English version of the Chinese post.

Kindle Paperwhite can support all UTF fonts w/o jailbreaking, including Tibetan. Below are the steps:

1. Mount the Paperwhite
2. Create the file USE_ALT_FONTS in the mounted volume.
3. Create the folder fonts in the mounted volume, and add fonts consisting of all the following (where Font is the name of your font):
   • Font-Regular.ttf (.otf is also supported for the files)
   • Font-Bold.ttf
   • Font-Italic.ttf
   • Font-BoldItalic.ttf
4. Restart the device
5. You may need to clear the font cache by searching on the home screen for ;fc-cache and then restarting.

You can choose any UTF-8 Tibetan fonts. There is a Tibetan fonts wiki page on Digital Tibetan website.

Here is my result (My firmware version is 5.4.4.2.)

Reference:

• Custom Kindle Paperwhite fonts by zacwest
• Tibetan Fonts by Digital Tibetan