Comments on: ‘Run Kindle for PC in Linux with Wine’ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Luis Camilo http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-1150108 Luis Camilo Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:59:21 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/17/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/#comment-1150108 To enable the fonts just open wine configuration and in the Applications tab Add click on Add Applications. After adding the KindleForPC choose windows 98 as the windows version. To enable the fonts just open wine configuration and in the Applications tab Add click on Add Applications. After adding the KindleForPC choose windows 98 as the windows version.

]]> By: pond http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-1149319 pond Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:56:02 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/17/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/#comment-1149319 got it to work on Ubuntu 9.10, but had to go through the Kindle for PC help page to understand how to sync; can't just get the content through the browser (at least this first shot) but had to go to my kindle-account settings page and manually tell it to d/l the book. I'm happy enough with that, but I suspect a lot of folks won't be. But it isn't Linux unless you fiddle! Not a lot of folks are on Linux anyhow. The instructions at Lifehacker were very helpful in configuring Wine to work with K4PC. got it to work on Ubuntu 9.10, but had to go through the Kindle for PC help page to understand how to sync; can’t just get the content through the browser (at least this first shot) but had to go to my kindle-account settings page and manually tell it to d/l the book.

I’m happy enough with that, but I suspect a lot of folks won’t be. But it isn’t Linux unless you fiddle! Not a lot of folks are on Linux anyhow.

The instructions at Lifehacker were very helpful in configuring Wine to work with K4PC.

]]> By: Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-1149256 Paul Biba Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:31:49 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/17/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/#comment-1149256 Doesn't work on the Mac under Wine with Winebottler. No fonts show up. Easiest way to do it is to use Parallels or Fusion. Doesn’t work on the Mac under Wine with Winebottler. No fonts show up. Easiest way to do it is to use Parallels or Fusion.

]]> By: Evan Leibovitch http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-1149253 Evan Leibovitch Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:46:18 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/17/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/#comment-1149253 That's a big pile of hoops to jump through, just for the privilege of reading DRM'd books on a GPL platform. It's no surprise that there's been so little effort to do this. I would imagine that most Linux users would have it in their DNA to resist the Kindle approach. (By contrast, there are a number of good quality Linux ePub readers and library organizers.) Linux desktop users, almost by definition, are already a fairly adventuresome lot. It seems to me that they're just rather selective on the challenges worth pursuing. That’s a big pile of hoops to jump through, just for the privilege of reading DRM’d books on a GPL platform. It’s no surprise that there’s been so little effort to do this. I would imagine that most Linux users would have it in their DNA to resist the Kindle approach. (By contrast, there are a number of good quality Linux ePub readers and library organizers.)

Linux desktop users, almost by definition, are already a fairly adventuresome lot. It seems to me that they’re just rather selective on the challenges worth pursuing.

]]> By: Brendan LeFebvre http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/comment-page-1/#comment-1149217 Brendan LeFebvre Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:22:38 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/11/17/run-kindle-for-pc-in-linux-with-wine/#comment-1149217 Did a fresh WINE install with yum to my Fedora Core 11 workstation, followed the procedure exactly, works just fine. I would like to figure out how it selects the font (unfortunately the app does not offer a choice to the user)... on Linux I see a sans-serif font whereas on Windows it's serif. Either way it's readable. Thanks for the pointer to the tip! Did a fresh WINE install with yum to my Fedora Core 11 workstation, followed the procedure exactly, works just fine.

I would like to figure out how it selects the font (unfortunately the app does not offer a choice to the user)… on Linux I see a sans-serif font whereas on Windows it’s serif. Either way it’s readable.

Thanks for the pointer to the tip!

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