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Originally Posted by Quaxo76
Thank you for your reply.
I've never used a Kindle before and I didn't know you could do that. I've installed calibre and I'm trying to figure it out. But I'm having trouble installing Kindle on my PC... I use Linux and when trying to install Kindle with wine, it fails. I'm investigating it...
Cristian
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OK, this is getting complicated.
I changed wine to 32bit and Kindle installed. But it complained that it can't connect to internet.
So I tried several different wineprefixes and several older versions of Kindle, all failed to connect. I updated wine, installed ie8 with winetricks, no change.
Then I setup a virtual Windows XP installation on Virtualbox... and Kindle doesn't install. I can see the "unpacking" window, but then it just quits, leaving behind an empty Amazon/Kindle folder. I can't find a way to actually run the Kindle app, so that I may convert the book.
Would it help if I installed the Android app on my phone, and downloaded the book there? Would Calibre be able to read that file?
Ah, I installed Calibre and set it up, I also created (as suggested) a gmx email address to directly send books to the kindle reader via email. But as soon as Calibre tried to send an email, it failed and it actually blocked my gmx account, due to "irregular activity" on the account.
This is getting very frustrating. It's well past midnight here and I've been at it for hours. I just wanted to read a book that I purchased...
Cristian