Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question The best answers are voted up and rise to the top This question already has an answer here: Kindle for PC via Wine How do I get Kindle for PC working on Ubuntu 12.04? Kindle Cloud can't copy paste so that's not a good solution. The e-books seem to be encoded so that Caliber cannot open them/convert them, so unless I've misunderstood something, that's not a good solution. marked as duplicate by Eliah Kagan, Seth, Eric Carvalho, Kevin Bowen, vasa1 This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question. Kindle PC Under wine instructions: +1 For Calibre as well. Summary of links above, paraphrased. sudo apt-get install wine1.3 Download Kindle for PC. The link should work 'till amazon changes the link. wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Amazon/Kindle For PC/Kindle.exe This will run the actual app, assuming no errors occured.

Look at Calibre free software, does a lot with all ebook makes, including reading them. Updated solution for Ubuntu 12.04 on 2012/12/26: I adopted the solution from http://www.milo.name/2012/05/20/kindle-4-pc-under-linux/ The trick is to use an old version of Kindle because while the new version installs, it crashes after you try to actually read a book. == Steps to install Kindle (paste commands into a terminal) == Step 1: get rid of 1 wine file Step 2: download old Kindle, as per the accepted answer above Step 3: install Kindle Step 4: run Kindle wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Amazon/Kindle\ For\ PC/KindleForPC.exe This is a solution using Wine 1.4 on Ubuntu 12.04. I tried the above approach: "Updated solution for Ubuntu 12.04 on 2012/12/26". It mostly works, except I was unable to take notes and make highlights on my Kindle For PC. The following solution allows notes and highlights and uses the latest version of Kindle for PC (yes, it works!)

Steps to Install Kindle For PC with Annotations Enabled (paste the commands that are in quotations below into a terminal) Note: This has been tested to work with Wine 1.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 Step 1: get rid of 1 wine file: TYPE: /gp/kindle/pc/download and save to a directory, e.g. Desktop Step 3: install Kindle: cd to the directory where you saved the downloaded executable, and TYPE Wine will Install the latest Kindle for PC and create a deskop icon for launching. Calibre does not remove DRM; however, its reader handles Amazon .azw books all right. If you want to convert a DRM protected ebook, including those from Amazon, there are commercial tools that may or may not be legal in your country/area. If you need one, do a G search. Try it, it's quite simple to install. This is my solution using Wine 1.4 on Ubuntu 12.04 (since solution posted before not working for me): a) Make a 32 bit wine prefix named, for example, "kindle". After that winecfg window will popup, click OK (this will set default options with Win XP).

b) go to folder where is downloaded installer, open terminal there and: (that will make every next command in that terminal to execute wine from wineprefix named kindle and not wine from your default wine folder " ~/.wine/ " or any other wineprefix you may have )wine for me tumblr c) after installation, go to folder where is kindle installed, ( I use nautilus for that, and whoever like from terminal, do it whatever you like)buy french wine map and there is one folder named "Microsoft.VC90.CRT", with four files:what is best wine for turkey Microsoft.VC90.CRT.manifest, msvcm90.dll, msvcr90.dll, msvcp90.dll. COPY all files and PASTE them into ( OVERWRITE/replace one dll file which is in that folder ) Now you can start Kindle from Dash (I'm using Unity)

NOTE: Before I figure out this solution, in attempt to find working solution, I installed (into that wineprefix named kindle ) via Winetricks a lots of other files, like: comctl32, comdlg32ocx, corefonts, mono210 , IE8, mdac27&28, mfc42, msxml4, vb6run, vcrun2005, vcrun6, vcrun6sp6, wininet, wsh57, . This post is for newer Kindle/Linux users: I've been using Kindle for PC (K4PC) in Wine. For the specific version of K4PC, I go to FileHippo, which provides a convenient list of previous versions in the right hand column. Basically, I start with K4PC 1.8.3. After K4PC installation, I delete one of the deadbeef manifests. Unfortunately, the more I tweak the installation, the more often it breaks, so I have resolved to be content with a version that runs. But don't kick Amazon Cloud Reader (ACR) into a corner — it has continued to improve. And it's a great fallback for when K4PC breaks. definition — there's even a link. As of Feb 2013, users can not copy/paste or word search, which only K4PC allows.

site itself — another fallback option, if K4PC breaks. it's not pretty — especially when K4PC utterly breaks — but that's how I get things done. Playonlinux has Kindle for PC in its software list and installs the appropriate Wine version for it. In my case it downloaded Wine 1.4. and then Kindle for PC can be installed and started from Playonlinux. Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged wine kindle or ask your own question.This article first appeared in The National Book Review. Last week, the book industry released figures showing that e-book sales were down so far this year -- the first time they have declined -- while print remained relatively steady. When the news broke, we published a piece on 10 reasons e-books are better than print. In the interest of fairness, we now offer a list for the other side: a 10-point case for print. 1. Print books have pages that are nice and soft to the touch. Paper makes reading physically pleasurable.

Reading an e-book, on the other hand, feels like using an ATM. And after staring at a computer screen at work all day, how relaxing is it to curl up at home and stare at another screen? 2. Print books are better at conveying information. A study reported in the Guardian last year found that readers using a Kindle were less likely to recall events in a mystery novel than people who read the same novel in print. So if you want to do things like follow plots and acquire information, print is the way to go. 3. Print books are yours for life. The books you bought in college will still be readable in 50 years. Do you really think that in 10 years your e-reader - or book-reading watch, or virtual reality goggles - will work with today's e-books? 4. Print books are physical reminders of your intellectual journeys. That beat-up copy of Catcher in the Rye on your bookshelf takes you back to sophomore year of high school. The Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda conjures up memories of late-night dorm room bull sessions.

The food and wine-stained Lonely Planet Greece brings back that trip through the Greek Isles. A Kindle is just a Kindle. 5. Print books are great to share. There is nothing quite like putting a book into a friend's hand and saying, "You've got to read this." There are ways of sharing e-books - if both you and your intended recipient can navigate the Digital Rights Management system. But sharing an e-book has all of the warmth of sending an e-mail or paying someone on PayPal. 6. You can write in the margins of a print book, dog-ear the important pages, and underline the key sentences with a pencil. E-books often allow the digital equivalents of these acts - but they just aren't the same. There is a link between physical gestures and cognition: the things we do to print books seem to help us to understand and remember better. 7. Print books have jackets, so people know what other people are reading - which makes reading a community-building act. A bus full of people with print books is a snapshot of what is on a town or a city's minds - as well as a collection of ideas for what you should read next.