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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's plainly not a "philosophical" point with Amazon, given that other Kindle devices and apps (eg "Kindle for PC") do support copying. It's not more than that the iOS and Android Kindle Apps are the "poor relations" of the Kindle family, to my mind. Amazon want you to buy a "real" Kindle.
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That's some great business strategy. Enrage your customer, perhaps they will buy more from you, then. Not really.
And we should remember Amazon also bought off Stanza just so it could kill it, but they seem to be content with replacing it with that pitiful Kindle version as a "poor cousin" of the real one.
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Originally Posted by kguil
As I recall, ibooks doesn't let you export highlights at all, just notes attached to them. As a matter of fact when I used to use ibooks to proof read, I used to create a highlight, copy the same text and paste to into the highlight to manage to get text out.
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You're right. What an utter failure -- exporting a note without the associated passage.
I wonder what Apple's excuse is here? The Kindle app is intentionally lame because they want you to buy a "real" Kindle, and iBooks is intentionally lame
because...?
I've just learned to expect nothing from mega-corporations, no matter if its name starts with an M, G, or two kinds of A. Corporations have typically grown so arrogant they don't give a damn about the user experience, and they couldn't care less about a single unhappy customer.
Fortunately, there's still "indie" software like Marvin and formerly Stanza, so that we can still get a superb user experience while reading e-books on iDevices.
