SOLVED: Kindle for PC

I had posted a question yesterday where trying to using Kindle for PC under a win7 VM didn't work. By didn't work I mean it could not download any books -- it would invariably give an error.

It turns out that sharing the documents folder was the issue. After downloading a book, the kindle tries to move the book from its temp download location to \\.psf\Home\Documents\My Kindle Content -- a directory which does not exist. I think they try to create the directory by some mechanism that fails across a share like that.

SOLUTION:

Under mac osx, open a terminal window and do:

mkdir "$HOME/Documents/My Kindle Content"

This should make Kindle for PC work under Parallels 5.0, Win7 when sharing of the documents folder is enabled (sharing the folder between osx and the vm).

 

Thank you!!!

Was trying to get this work and couldn't figure it out... Just made this folder and oof:..
... Not that I think the Kindle interface is ready for prime time, but it does make reading the tech books a LOT more fun

 

Well done. This is the same problem I was having. I compared the directories created for Kindle content on a friend's PC and tried to duplicate them on my mac, but couldn't figure out where to put them (administrator / all users / etc...).

Your solution solved my problem. Thanks for posting it.

 

Could you be more specific for a Mac newbie? I don't know how to open a terminal window & really would like to be able to read my Kindle books on my MacBook Pro Snow Leopard using Parallels & XP.

Thanks,
Betsy

 

Nevermind-I got it-

 

Creating the directory

Glad the solution worked for everyone! It was driving me nuts not being able to read my books with that cryptic error.

For other mac newbies out there, you can create the required folder via the Finder instead of the terminal:

1) Make sure the finder is the active application (click somewhere on the mac desktop background). It should say "Finder" next to the apple logo of the menu bar.

2) Either hit Command-N, or click the File Menu -> "New Finder Window"

3) There should be a "Places" section in the left pane of the window. Under that section Click "Documents"

4) Either press Shift-Command-N or click the File Menu -> New Folder

5) The finder will create the new folder and allow you to change its name. change the name to "My Kindle Content" (NO QUOTES - I just added them to make the exact name stand out)

 

Thank you!

I sent your link off to Amazon as well, since the support-request to them led to nothing.

Thanks again!

Martin