Answers.Body: <p>Perhaps renting works differently from buying/lending/borrowing ebooks, but all you do is to download the Kindle reading app on your device. Then, the rented item will magically appear after you purchase it.  I know the android Kindle app works great on mobile devices. </p>
  
  <p>I don't know if Calibre has the ability to strip DRM from ebooks.(NOTE: We don't discuss DRM on this Stack Exchange). But the <a href="https://read.amazon.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kindle cloud reader</a> is browser-based, so I don't see why you can't just read ebooks in a web browser. </p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm interested in renting this textbook (<a href="https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/013335587X" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Ethical-Issues-Nursing-Guido/dp/013335587X</a>) from Amazon, but I am running a Linux system (Kubuntu 18.04.01).</p>
  
  <p>How does renting from the Amazon store work if I'm running such a system? Do I need a special application to rent from the Amazon store, or will a program such a Calibre suffice?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Welcome to ebooks-SE.  Note that you can usually use shorter URL. For example, for the above book, this should be enough: http://amazon.com/Legal-Ethical-Issues-Nursing-Guido/dp/013335587X  . Are you sure this books exists for Kindle ... I cannot see it from my country, only the paper version. Last point is I never managed cleanly Kindle ebooks on Linux. Amazon is NOT Linux friendly. See for example https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/6786/  You may try installing the Windows Kindle app with Wine.
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Comments.Text: What do you mean by renting? Which amazon product allows that. When I go to the url I see no option to rent.
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Title: How Does Amazon Kindle Renting work on *buntu/Linux Systems?
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ThreadText: # How Does Amazon Kindle Renting work on *buntu/Linux Systems?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-10-27)
  
  I'm interested in renting this textbook ([https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Ethical-Issues-Nursing-Guido/dp/013335587X](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/013335587X)) from Amazon, but I am running a Linux system (Kubuntu 18.04.01).
  
  How does renting from the Amazon store work if I'm running such a system? Do I need a special application to rent from the Amazon store, or will a program such a Calibre suffice?
  
  **Tags:** kindle, ebook-readers, calibre, amazon, linux
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Welcome to ebooks-SE.  Note that you can usually use shorter URL. For example, for the above book, this should be enough: http://amazon.com/Legal-Ethical-Issues-Nursing-Guido/dp/013335587X  . Are you sure this books exists for Kindle ... I cannot see it from my country, only the paper version. Last point is I never managed cleanly Kindle ebooks on Linux. Amazon is NOT Linux friendly. See for example https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/6786/  You may try installing the Windows Kindle app with Wine.  
  > **username_2**: What do you mean by renting? Which amazon product allows that. When I go to the url I see no option to rent.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2018-10-27. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  Perhaps renting works differently from buying/lending/borrowing ebooks, but all you do is to download the Kindle reading app on your device. Then, the rented item will magically appear after you purchase it. I know the android Kindle app works great on mobile devices.
  
  I don't know if Calibre has the ability to strip DRM from ebooks.(NOTE: We don't discuss DRM on this Stack Exchange). But the [Kindle cloud reader](https://read.amazon.com/) is browser-based, so I don't see why you can't just read ebooks in a web browser.
  
  
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