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Amazon Kindle for PC

The beta released by Amazon on November 10, 2009.

Application Details:

Version: Beta
License: Free to use
URL: http://www.amazon.com/gp/featu...
Votes: Marked as obsolete
Latest Rating: Garbage
Latest Wine Version Tested: 1.3.33

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What works

Installation

Login (although all text boxes display blank, see below)

Reading books (this text displays fine), adding bookmarks, viewing bookmarks, changing pages (spacebar, enter key, or mouse scroll), changing fonts

Browsing books by picture

Go to page (ctrl+g)

What does not

Main application fonts do not display, so almost all buttons and text boxes appear blank.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Sync between Kindle device
Browsing the Kindle Store

Hardware tested

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Additional Comments

The first box that pops up is the login box. Just enter your Amazon username and password and it should work fine even though nothing is displayed in the window.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?
RatingSubmitter
ShowUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Nov 30 20111.3.33N/A No NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Feb 14 20111.3.13Yes Yes NoPlatinuman anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Dec 12 20111.2.2Yes Yes NoGoldan anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Feb 14 20111.2.2No, but has workaround No NoGarbagean anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Aug 28 20101.2Yes Yes NoGoldKevin Soulsby 

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