Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Kindle for PC on Linux

I just got Kindle for PC running under Wine (on Linux). It works great! - nearly as good as my Windows partition. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, Kindle for PC 1.3.0 (30884), and Wine 1.3.9. My trick was to do a complete Wine removal, rm -rf ~/.wine, install Wine 1.3.9, and then the KindleForPC-installer.exe. I did not need to specify that the Kindle app be run as a Windows 98 program. The only thing I see wrong is that the blue underline under hyperlinks in the book have a fixed width (longer than the word). My guess is this is a font issue.

Many thanks to the Wine team. I'm off to read now...

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