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SpenceA2 · 06-26-2011, 08:03 AM

My wife and I both use Kindles for our e-book reading and I recently bought a second-hand mac laptop to bring my mother-in-law into the e-book fold.

As you all can guess, I immediately ran into the problem of the Kindle desktop application not being able to run on a PowerPC.

Can anyone recommend an e-book desktop reader for her - preferably one that supports Kindle formatted books? Is there an older version of Kindle out there that supports PowerPC? If not, is Calibre the best option?

Any help is greatly appreciated and will go towards scoring bonus points with my mother-in-law.

06-26-2011, 08:03 AM	#1
SpenceA2 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle	E-Book reader for a Mac OS X (10.5), but a PowerPC? (mother-in-law emergency) My wife and I both use Kindles for our e-book reading and I recently bought a second-hand mac laptop to bring my mother-in-law into the e-book fold. As you all can guess, I immediately ran into the problem of the Kindle desktop application not being able to run on a PowerPC. Can anyone recommend an e-book desktop reader for her - preferably one that supports Kindle formatted books? Is there an older version of Kindle out there that supports PowerPC? If not, is Calibre the best option? Any help is greatly appreciated and will go towards scoring bonus points with my mother-in-law.