diff --git a/frontend/document/credocument.lua b/frontend/document/credocument.lua
index 6810e8178..0b5467ba2 100644
--- a/frontend/document/credocument.lua
+++ b/frontend/document/credocument.lua
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ function CreDocument:engineInit()
         -- we need to initialize the CRE font list
         local fonts = Font:getFontList()
         for _k, _v in ipairs(fonts) do
-            if _v:sub(1, 4) ~= "urw/" then
-                local ok, err = pcall(cre.registerFont, Font.fontdir..'/'.._v)
+            if not _v:find("/urw/") then
+                local ok, err = pcall(cre.registerFont, _v)
                 if not ok then
                     DEBUG(err)
                 end
diff --git a/frontend/ui/font.lua b/frontend/ui/font.lua
index 69835e275..fb1b8af3e 100644
--- a/frontend/ui/font.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/font.lua
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ local Font = {
         [4] = "freefont/FreeSans.ttf",
     },
 
-    fontdir = os.getenv("FONTDIR") or "./fonts",
+    fontdir = "./fonts",
 
     -- face table
     faces = {},
@@ -77,23 +77,27 @@ function Font:getFace(font, size)
     return { size = size, orig_size = orig_size, ftface = face, hash = font..size }
 end
 
-function Font:_readList(target, dir, effective_dir)
+function Font:_readList(target, dir)
     for f in lfs.dir(dir) do
         if lfs.attributes(dir.."/"..f, "mode") == "directory" and f ~= "." and f ~= ".." then
-            self:_readList(target, dir.."/"..f, effective_dir..f.."/")
+            self:_readList(target, dir.."/"..f)
         else
             local file_type = string.lower(string.match(f, ".+%.([^.]+)") or "")
             if file_type == "ttf" or file_type == "ttc"
                 or file_type == "cff" or file_type == "otf" then
-                table.insert(target, effective_dir..f)
+                table.insert(target, dir.."/"..f)
             end
         end
     end
 end
 
 function Font:getFontList()
-    fontlist = {}
-    self:_readList(fontlist, self.fontdir, "")
+    local fontlist = {}
+    self:_readList(fontlist, self.fontdir)
+    -- multiple path should be joined with semicolon in FONTDIR env variable
+    for dir in string.gmatch(os.getenv("FONTDIR") or "", "([^;]+)") do
+        self:_readList(fontlist, dir)
+    end
     table.sort(fontlist)
     return fontlist
 end
diff --git a/platform/kindle/koreader.sh b/platform/kindle/koreader.sh
index e80a1bbf6..53fe36c76 100755
--- a/platform/kindle/koreader.sh
+++ b/platform/kindle/koreader.sh
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ export TESSDATA_PREFIX="data"
 # export dict directory
 export STARDICT_DATA_DIR="data/dict"
 
+# export font directory
+export FONTDIR="/mnt/us/fonts"
+
 logmsg "Setting up IPTables rules . . ."
 # accept input ports for zsync plugin
 iptables -A INPUT -i wlan0 -p udp --dport 5670 -j ACCEPT
diff --git a/platform/kobo/koreader.sh b/platform/kobo/koreader.sh
index b9f49d34f..796917b24 100755
--- a/platform/kobo/koreader.sh
+++ b/platform/kobo/koreader.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ export TESSDATA_PREFIX="data"
 # export dict directory
 export STARDICT_DATA_DIR="data/dict"
 
+# export font directory
+export FONTDIR="/mnt/onboard/fonts"
+
 # fast and dirty way of check if we are called from nickel
 # through fmon, or from another launcher (KSM or advboot)
 from_nickel=`pidof nickel | wc -c`
diff --git a/platform/pocketbook/koreader.app b/platform/pocketbook/koreader.app
index 60e09e8b1..877f7b462 100755
--- a/platform/pocketbook/koreader.app
+++ b/platform/pocketbook/koreader.app
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ export TESSDATA_PREFIX="data"
 # export dict directory
 export STARDICT_DATA_DIR="data/dict"
 
+# export font directory
+export FONTDIR="/mnt/ext1/fonts"
+
 if [ `echo $@ | wc -c` -eq 1 ]; then
     args="/mnt/ext1/"
 else