Spoke too soon - with the above package I could indeed read my old DRM'd books, but Kindle would not download newly purchased books.
So I wiped out my entire .wine directory and my "My Kindle Content" directory, installed latest wine 1.3 from the wine PPA, then got myself a Kindle for PC v1.0.1 installer exe. As soon as the installer finishes, and I registered my user account, I turned off networking to prevent auto-upgrade. Then went into settings and unchecked the auto-upgrade feature of Kindle. Kindle now reports its version to be 1.0.1 Beta 1 (25709) Last Updated: May 15, 2011 03:29 PM Now Kindle downloads my lastest purchase, which btw is Alastair Reynolds' Zima Blue: http://www.amazon.com/Zima-Blue-ebook/dp/B002VCR0CQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1305463348&sr=8-2 Great author, and the Kindle edition only cost me $8.58! Happy to mark this bug as wontfix, because with a newer version of Kindle the issue is solved, even if the original issue with wine is still there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704700 Title: not all books viewable with Kindle for PC -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
