Kindle not working on Lion

That's the answer! First, I also wiped out all traces of old Kindle apps with the help of AppCleaner.app ( free download). Then everyting worked. Good luck everybody who have had this problem!

I tried your directions on both my Intel iMac and my MacBook Pro, with no success; same timeout message as before. The only thing I did differently was not to redownload the Kindle app; I just used the same .dmg file I downloaded recently.

Many thanks to the person who included the chflags command to make ~/Library visible again; that was an irritating feature of Lion.

The Mac App store version works for me as well.

Try info on this link. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3200518?start=0&tstart=0

I think maybe that was your mistake, not downloading the app anew. All I needed to do was drag the Kindle app icon from the applications folder to the trash then download a new Kindle app from the App store NOT Amazon and it then worked. I certainly didn't faff about with cleaners and such stuff. Originally I tried to use the .dmg, didn't work, new download from Amazon didn't work - had all the could not register, timeout stuff. Only the app store download worked and straight away.

I did two things. First, I downloaded Kindle directly from Amazon on my new MBA running Lion. I couldn't register. I uninstalled this Kindle application and instead went to the AppStore and installed it from there. Different version. Registered fine. No collections.

It seems that there is a problem with the latest from Amazon, but that what you get from the AppStore is working just fine.

I haven't tried any of the previous advice, with the latest from Amazon.

Amazon just posted an update (1.6.2) on amazon.com/kindleformac. That seems to fix the problem.

Hi jleblang,

Thanks for your info. Works fine!!

Now I am happy that the lookup-dictionary feature is available.

The solution worked perfectly! Thank you for taking the time to help.