The Kindle Reader App is packaged for winetricks, but unfortunately it doesn’t run after installing via: winetricks kindle …and will crash with an error about a missing msvcp90.dll file. You need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime installed to your kindle WINEPREFIX by running: winetricks prefix=kindle vcrun2008 and then voila!

The Kindle Reader App is packaged for winetricks, but unfortunately it doesn’t run after installing via:

winetricks kindle

…and will crash with an error about a missing msvcp90.dll file. You need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime installed to your kindle WINEPREFIX by running:

winetricks prefix=kindle vcrun2008

and then voila!