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Originally Posted by Quaxo76
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
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Did you try their first suggestion of just downloading the book directly from the Amazon website on a PC and then transfering it to Kindle via USB?
Calibre was a separate suggestion they were making for overall library management from a PC.
It should be as simple as downloading the book from the Amazon site and then plugging in the Kindle and moving the book to the documents folder on the Kindle.