Getting To Know The Kindle For PC Application Working on Linux

Amazon’s Kindle is considered as a very popular portable reading device.Though it is a great idea, not everyone is ready to spend a large amount of money to have it.

Recently Amazon made the Kindle for PC application that lets you download and read books on your computer instead of having to buy the Kindle or an iPhone. There is no Mac version yes and certainly won’t be a Linux version. The good news is that you can run this application on Linux.

These instructions worked for Ubuntu 9.04 running Gnome. If you use a different version of Linux or a different GUI, you may end up with different results. It’s likely that it will work on other distributions of Linux since it’s just some changes that have to be made in WineHQ.

First of all you need to have the Wine HQ software installed to your machine.

Go to Amazon and download the EXE file for the Kindle for PC application.

Run this with the wine software loader and go through the normal setup process like you would installing an application to a Windows machine.

When it first loads up, the application will run but you won’t see any text at all.

Shut the application then go to your “Configure Wine” screen in Wine.

Here add the Kindle for PC as an application and tell it to run in Windows 98 mode. Others might work, but this one worked the first time for me. If you run into problems, try another mode.

Once it opens properly showing the text, you have to enter your Amazon email address and password to unlock the program.

There are quite a few free books that you can read on the Kindle.

If you aren’t wanting to invest in Amazon, you still can get hours of free reading.

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