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Originally Posted by frabjous
I don't think I understand what's going on here. Are you comparing the PC software that comes with these readers, or the readers themselves?
The software that comes with Sony Readers sucks, no doubt about that. But if the file is not DRMed, you can use a variety of other (free) software to extract text from ebooks that work on it. This is no reflection on Sonys vs other readers.
The file is DRMed, then you shouldn't be taking large snippets from it anyway. (And it'd be rather shocking that a Kindle, or its software, would let you!) I guess quoting small pieces of material under copyright is OK, but if you really just want a small snippet, you can OCR a screen cap, or for that matter, just type it out yourself!
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thanks for the reply. When I an reading an article I like to highlight certain sentances and paragraphs. The kindle allows me to do that and as a bonus saves them to a text file so I can put them into a database. Agreed I could type out the highlighted passages afterwards so long as I have them highlighted. I could do this with the Sony 600 or 900. But it is so much more efficient if the text were already available. Now the Sony reader and the Sony desktop reader do not allow me to do this. I know of no free programs that allow me to do this. So I stumbled on the idea if cutting out the highlighted passages from the Sony desktop reader. Looks good in word, not perfect, and terrible in PDF. I was just clutching at straws trying to get something to work to keep my Sony 900. But as others have said, not. a good idea in the end. I tried. What free profs are you referring to ?
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