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Old 05-01-2011, 09:21 PM   #5
hebrides
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Originally Posted by penguinaka View Post
I have several...

1. try ctrl-a then ctrl-c in case its just the right click function copy your losing.
2. Use microsoft one notes screen clip function the text recognition and then spit it out as a file and convert as needed.
3. Get adobe acrobat pro if its a pdf... gives you a lot more editing capability. And blows the adobe reader out of the water which is a stripped down acrobat pro and has twice the functionality as kindle for pc for pdf's.

Also pdf is a horrible format to use on the kindle... I would convert them to .mobi or .prc you will like it much better.

I would try anything other than using that kindle for pc software which blows.

Cheers
I have up and found the highlighted sections and extracted them a different way...

Absolutely agree and this is more or less what I do/use - I have Acrobat installed for something else and it's very useful for eBooks. It's way too expensive for an ordinary consumer though (older versions are probably cheaper).

However, I didn't have a PDF version of the file in question and MOBI to PDF produces ugly results.

For annotating and highlighting, Kindle for PC is better than Acrobat. There's no need to right-click and select 'highlight text', the dialog box just appears. Over the course of a two hundred pages, that's a lot of time/clicks saved.

It's a question of DRM in Kindle for PC, not of pressing the right buttons - I can open the file in another program and copy text just fine. KforPC does not allow it though.

I don't think OneNote will work (I don't like OneNote so it'll be installed on first use, which I don't intend to do) - the similar Snag-It didn't work. Again, it's DRM.

I agree about PDFs on Kindle too, although it's okay for PowerPoint slides (2 per page) now and then, especially if the margins are cropped.

Last edited by hebrides; 05-01-2011 at 09:24 PM.
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