Amazon Kindle for PC

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Application Details:

Version:	1.6.x
License:	Free to use
URL:	http://www.amazon.com/gp/featu...
Votes:	Marked as obsolete
Latest Rating:	Gold
Latest Wine Version Tested:	1.4-rc2

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Test Results

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What works

Installation
Registering / logging in
Reading books (after installing the missing fonts as described below)
Sending sample books to the Kindle application

What does not

Everything seems to work fine.

Workarounds

What was not tested

I did not buy any books on Amazon.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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Driver:

Additional Comments

To be able to read books you need to use winetricks (see http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks). After installing the script, call winetricks allfonts to download and install the needed fonts into Wine.

selected in Test Results table below

	Operating system	Test date	Wine version	Installs?	Runs?	Used Workaround?	Rating	Submitter
Show	openSUSE 11.4 x86_64	Feb 08 2012	1.4-rc2	N/A	Yes	No	Gold	Rosanne
Show	openSUSE 11.4 x86_64	Aug 04 2011	1.3.25	Yes	Yes	No	Platinum	Rosanne
Current	Fedora 14 x86_64	Aug 08 2011	1.3.24	Yes	Yes	No	Gold	André Twupack
Show	Fedora 14	Aug 04 2011	1.3.24	Yes	Yes	No	Garbage	an anonymous user
Show	Fedora 15 x86	Aug 02 2011	1.3.24	Yes	Yes	No	Garbage	an anonymous user

Known Bugs

Bug #	Description	Status	Resolution	Other apps affected
29045	Kindle for PC crashes opening books if Times New Roman and Courier New are not installed	NEW		View

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HowTo / Notes

HOWTO

To work around bug 29045, install Times New Roman and Courier New, either systemwide or with winetricks.

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