Running Amazon's Kindle app on Linux

I was trying to add a comment to this article which goes through the steps needed to get the amazon kindle application running on Linux. The instructions do not work as stated because many people running Ubuntu 10.10 have wine 1.2 which does not work with Amazon's application.

Here is the original post, which is the first post that comes up with you Google it.

My comment was flagged as spam, so I wanted to make sure people know how to get it working. Here is my comment:

This is working for wine 1.3.15 on Ubuntu 10.10. It does not work with the stock version of Wine that is in the default Ubuntu 10.10 repo.
To get the latest version of Wine, you have to add the WineQH repository by following these instructions: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb

After that, uninstall any wine 1.2 packages and install the package called "wine1.3"
I used the Synaptic Package Manager which you can find under
System->Administration

Alternatively you can run the following on the command line after you have uninstalled any wine 1.2 packages you may have:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3

To find what is currently working go here

Hope this helps and happy reading!

@Genspire