‘Run Kindle for PC in Linux with Wine’

Comments:

• Brendan LeFebvre says:

  November 17, 2009 at 1:22 pm

  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!
• Evan Leibovitch says:

  November 17, 2009 at 11:46 pm

  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.
• Paul Biba says:

  November 18, 2009 at 12:31 am

  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.
• pond says:

  November 18, 2009 at 4:56 pm

  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.
• Luis Camilo says:

  December 1, 2009 at 4:59 pm

  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.