Getting Amazon Kindle for PC running in Ubuntu under Wine

There are several versions of these instructions out on the web. I chose this version because it

1. was detailed
2. had specific details for Ubuntu
3. was current (01/08/10 is a European style date, as you can see from the other entries here).

The instructions worked and I have Kindle for PC up and running on Ubuntu 10.04. It felt somewhat unnatural to specify Windows 98 as the OS version, but I will get over that :-)>

This was my first taste of wine. It went down easily and I think I want more :-)>