Ubuntu – Kindle for PC via Wine

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I really want to get the Kindle PC program running on my computer so I can download, read, and manage my e-books. I realize that Calibre can be used to manage e-books and I do have that downloaded. However, Amazon won't let me download ebooks unless my PC is registered in their Kindle program and I'd like to just keep things streamlined.

I've viewed many tutorials and advice for setting it up. I have Wine, I have Kindle for PC, I set it to Win98, all of that. However, when I try to open KindlePC from the Wine menu or from the desktop icon, nothing happens. No error messages, nothing. I don't know what might be wrong. How can I make it work?

Best Answer

Ignore those old tutorials; the latest Wine beta works perfectly with Kindle for PC.

Try adding the development repository to your sources and upgrading to 1.3.7. In a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3

Then download and run the latest version of Kindle for PC. (you don't need to set it to Windows 98 mode)

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