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Originally Posted by sirmaru
I've read dozens of Amazon eBooks and never encountered any limits to notes and highlights. Naturally, if you want to copy the entire eBook, that would be a copyright violation. I doubt if anyone has ever seen limits other than that one. The only eBooks I read are all between 600 and 1,000 pages and are all history and biography. I rarely read fiction.
I do my copy and pasting on my PC via that internet site. I only use the Kindle Fire to read the ebooks and use lots of highlights. I use Word on my PC. I have not found any useable copy and paste feature within the Kindle Fire android apps.
Special publisher limitations can be found on the ebook page at Amazon. I've never read an ebook with any stated limitations. Even if there were limitations, one could copy all one's notes and highlights on one's PC to Word and then, even if lost, they would still be resident in Word. Mass copying and pasting on a PC is very easy.
Those highlights and notes are fed from my Kindle Keyboard and my Kindle Fire and are synced between that internet site and the other two devices.
If you want the entire eBook open for copying and pasting, open it in Kindle 4 PC on your PC. You can then copy and paste from everywhere without using the Amazon Internet Highlight Site. Then you have no limits whatsoever. When you copy and paste using that method, the reference note to the page and book are also copied with the text. That makes it ideal for research papers.
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Congratulations, but unfortunately for me, the first ebook I purchased imposed such a limitation. I certainly did not attempt to highlight the entire book as you suggest. To further illustrate...on the highlight page itself, the following message is displayed:
You have 267 highlighted passages but we can only show 175 of them. What's this?
Nevertheless, I suppose that I could go through and cut and paste my highlights from the web into a MSWord file, then go back into Kindle Fire and delete those highlights which should then allow the ones that are hidden to sync and display. But my goodness, what an absolute ridiculous effort to have to make for something as simple, forthright, and practical as digital highlighting. Again, it SHOULD NOT be this complicated and convoluted. Not everyone is reading Jackie Collins...some of us do research and writing and would like to be able to do that efficiently. If I wanted to jump through all these hurdles I might do what another in this thread has done and revert to hard copies but that seems to defeat the whole purpose as well!