title_body: How Does Amazon Kindle Renting work on *buntu/Linux Systems?
upvoted_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 is browser-based, so I don't see why you can't just read ebooks in a web browser.