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Old 12-26-2021, 01:32 PM   #1
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Replacing Kindle for PC in Linux
Apologies to everyone if this is not posted in the most appropriate forum.

For a number of years now, I've been keeping a Windows laptop alive for the sole purpose of running Kindle for PC to download Amazon books. I then process these for in Calibre and sideload them to my (non-Kindle) e-reader.

Said laptop is now going the way of all electronic devices, and I can't afford to buy another Windows machine solely to buy books from Amazon, so I'm trying to find a way of completing the process entirely within my Linux system.

Annoyingly, the one step I can't get to work is simply getting the books from Amazon onto my main PC. There's no version of the Kindle reader for Linux, so I can't simply buy and download them my attempts to get Kindle for PC working through WINE have so far been a complete failure (and I'm not even sure if it's still possible any longer).

Surely, I can't be the only Linux user facing this problem (can I???). Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

TIA
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