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
(see additional comments for setup) 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 Go to page (ctrl+g) Sync between Kindle device
What does not
Application fonts are still slightly messed up, but are readable. (note that the text for the books is fine)
Workarounds
What was not tested
Nothing else that I'm aware of.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Note: I had to set wine to run the kindle program as Windows 98 to get the fonts to render correctly. If you do not do this, you can still read books, but you will have trouble getting to the books and using other features.
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Nov 30 2011 | 1.3.33 | N/A | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 14 2011 | 1.3.13 | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Dec 12 2011 | 1.2.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 14 2011 | 1.2.2 | No, but has workaround | No | No | Garbage | an anonymous user | |
| Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 28 2010 | 1.2 | Yes | Yes | No | Gold | Kevin Soulsby |
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