Kindle though now sold in India does not support Indian Languages. Many in India would like to read books in their own Language. However there is a solution for this. This would involve hacking the Kindle. Therefore if you want to read Tamil books perform the hack at your own risk . This hack works nicely.

For detailed instructions see

Fonts & ScreenSavers Hacks for Kindles

Enabling Tamil support in Kindle 3

Kindle Reader uses Serif regular font in the reader. In other words it uses this font in Books. The font set Fertigo provided in the second site works well. However if desired another TSCII compliant font can be used as substitute font.

Most Tamil novel lovers would like to read Kalki’s (கல்கி) Novels and short stories. For the uninitiated, a few words about Kalki will be in order.

Kalki was a prolific writer of historical and social novels. He also participated in freedom movement and was closely associated with Rajagopalachari. He was awarded Sahithya Academy award for his novel Alai Osai (அலை ஓசை).

Mobi for Kindle	Mobi for IPad	Epub
Alai Osai	Alai Osai	Alai Osai
Sivakamiyin Sabatham	Sivakamiyin Sabatham	Sivakamiyin Sabatham
Parthiban Kanavu	Parthiban Kanavu	Parthiban Kanavu
Kalvanin Kadali	Kalvanin Kadali	Kalvanin Kadali
Magudapathy	Magudapathy	Magudapathy
Mohini Theevu	Mohini Theevu	Mohini Theevu
Solaimalai Ilavarasi	Solaimalai Ilavarasi	Solaimalai Ilavarasi
Poiman Karadu	Poiman Karadu	Poiman Karadu
Thyaga Bhoomi	Thyaga Bhoomi	Thyaga Bhoomi

Epub in iBooks (iPad) loads slowly. However this has improved substantially in iOS5 upgrade. The mobi format file for iPad is the better option for reading in iPad.

For the Kindle fans who do not wish to hack their kindle, six short novels in PDF format can be down loaded from here.

Ponniyin Selvan (பொன்னியின் செல்வன்) and Parthiban Kanavu (பார்த்திபன் கனவு) are available in the second site (Enabling Tamil support in Kindle 3).

Plenty of Tamil Books in PDF, HTML format are available in this site

http://pm.tamil.net/chrono_uni.html

More stories will be added in Future. (கல்கியின் நாவல்கலை படித்து மகிழங்கள்)